FinTech
Sameer Nigam
Co-Founder & CEO · PhonePe
📍 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Sameer Nigam co-founded PhonePe and helped build a digital-payments platform used at massive scale across India.
Engineering and business education in the United States; detailed credentials can be verified from PhonePe's official leadership profile before publication.
Worked in technology and product leadership, including at Flipkart, before co-founding PhonePe.
The emergence of UPI created an opportunity to make direct bank payments simple for everyday consumers and merchants.
Massive transaction scale, fraud prevention, reliability, regulation, intense competition and building trust across both consumers and merchants.
UPI's rapid national adoption became the key turning point that allowed PhonePe to scale from a payments app into a financial-services platform.
Co-founded PhonePe and helped build one of India's largest digital-payments platforms by transaction volume and reach.
Continue expanding payments, merchant services, insurance, wealth, lending distribution and other financial products.
When a new public infrastructure layer appears, build a product that makes it simple enough for everyday users.
