Harshil is the Co-Founder and CEO of Razorpay. He started Razorpay after discovering the dismal state of online payments in India. He graduated from IIT Roorkee in 2013 and started working at Schlumberger. With an idea to change the way online payments functioned in India, Harshil quit his full-time job and founded Razorpay with his co-founder, Shashank Kumar in 2014 to simplify online payments for India. Razorpay was one of the very few India-focused companies to be selected for the prestigious Y Combinator (YC) programme in 2014. Along with 33 reputed investors, the company is also backed by GIC, Sequoia Capital India, Tiger Global Management, Y Combinator, Matrix Partners and Mastercard with a funding of $207M across Series A, B, C and D rounds.
