Harshil Mathur
CEO and co-founder of Razorpay
Harshil Mathur is the co-founder and CEO of Razorpay, a Bengaluru company that offers businesses payments and banking on one platform. He studied at IIT Roorkee, where he met co-founder Shashank Kumar, then worked briefly as a wireline field engineer at Schlumberger. He left in 2014 to start Razorpay, which went through Y Combinator's Winter 2015 batch and was valued at $7.5 billion in December 2021.
- Fintech
- Payments
Razorpay
Y Combinator
- Now
- CEO and co-founder, Razorpay1
- Based in
- Bengaluru, Karnataka, India1
- Education
- B.Tech., IIT Roorkee (2013)1
- Y Combinator
- Winter 2015 batch (Razorpay)2
In their words
After discovering the dismal state of online payments in India, I quit my full-time job as a Wireline Field Engineer at Schlumberger to start Razorpay along with my friend and partner in crime Shashank Kumar. I am the CEO and co-founder of Razorpay and our company's mission is to simplify payments. We started in early 2014 and are one of the fastest growing neobanking companies.
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Experience
- CEO and co-founderDec 2014 – now
Started Razorpay with Shashank Kumar after seeing the poor state of online payments in India; he gives its mission as simplifying payments.1
- Wireline field engineerJun 2013 – Feb 2014
Left after nine months to start Razorpay.1
- Co-founderAt IIT Roorkee
Co-founded with Shashank Kumar while they worked on coding projects together at IIT Roorkee.2
Education
Recognition
Award · Hobbies Club, IIT Roorkee1
Award · Deloitte1
Award · Science Department, Rajasthan1
Award · IISc, Bangalore1
Award · NCERT1
Milestones
- Joins Schlumberger as a wireline field engineer after IIT Roorkee1
- Leaves Schlumberger and starts Razorpay with Shashank Kumar1
- Razorpay goes through Y Combinator's Winter 2015 batch2
- Razorpay raises a $100 million Series D co-led by GIC and Sequoia4
- Razorpay raises $375 million at a $7.5 billion valuation, led by Lone Pine Capital, Alkeon Capital and TCV5
- Razorpay buys a majority stake in Curlec of Malaysia, its first international acquisition6
- Razorpay completes its move of the parent company's domicile from the US to India7
- Razorpay confidentially files draft IPO papers with SEBI7