We are invested in the Idea for building for billion users to transition, handhold and accelerate emerging economies to developing economies.
We believe that by enabling and leveraging the phygital power of tech and on-the-ground networks will help us unlock new class of value creation for Brands, Entrepreneurs, Sellers,
SMEs, MSMEs, Mom and Pop shops and Customers across diverse markets.
Team
Madan Padaki
Madan is a serial entrepreneur, with a successful exit in one of India’s earliest edutech firms Meritrac. Post that he built 1Bridge, India’s largest assisted commerce network spanning 8000+ towns and 5 million homes. Madan serves on the boards of multiple organizations such as GAME, YuWaah, UNICEF and TIE Bangalore.
Suhas Kundapoor
Suhas comes with deep expertise in portfolio management and private equity structuring over $3B in deals across US, Europe and Asia. He’s serving as the Managing Director at Greenwich Advisors LLC and has worked with Timberhill, Verizon, Sherwood in the past. Suhas has an MA in Statistics from Columbia University. He also holds an undergraduate degree with honors in Engineering and an MBA in Finance.
Prashanth Joshua
Prashanth has built teams, products and businesses in Gaming, Data Science and SaaS. Previously he was at Microsoft, Redmond delivering growth on their windows and O365 products and led Strategy, P&L and Products for several gaming firms in India. Prashanth is a graduate in engineering from IIT Kharagpur and a Guest Speaker at the University of Washington, Seattle
Jayanth Tadinada
Jayanth is interested in building systems that unlock new classes of problems in the real world and offer a direct path to solutions through automation and web3 technologies. Jayanth has over 11 years of experience in leading Architecture and Data science functions at startups and in Automation and Digital transformation for Fortune 500 firms. He graduated in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Bombay in 2011.
Rajeev Varma
Rajeev is a Product Leader from Gaming industry, having built & grown products from scratch to multi-million dollar businesses. He is a graduate from IIT Kharagpur and a regular guest speaker at various Industry related events like Pocket Gamer Connects.
Saiganesh Menon
Believes in building products with meaningful impact, having led products across Gaming, Healthcare, Ed-tech, E-commerce helps him to see large opportunity for Product Led Growth in Emerging Markets. 7+ Years of Experience of Building Products, Ex-Entrepreneur who had built Academic Commerce Platform with a Quick Commerce Spin it to it right after graduating from Mumbai University.
Chakrawarty M
Chakrawarty is an entrepreneur with interests in solving challenges of emerging economies. He co-founded 1Bridge along with Madan. He has experience of 25 plus years across Supply Chain, Channel Sales & Retail and Strategy & Growth. Chakrawarty is a Mechanical Engineer from NIT , Bhopal and MBA from SP Jain , Mumbai
Anil Kumar Ghildiyal
Anil is a highly experienced Supply Chain and Operations Professional with strong back background of Project Management and Logistics. He co-founded 1Bridge along with Madan and Chakrawarty and has been responsible for scaling 1Bridge to 8000+towns. He is an MBA from Symbiosis (Pune).