Anuj Kacker

Co-founder, Freo

Anuj is the co-founder of Freo, India’s first credit-led neobank that ha scaled to $800M in GTV and 11M customers.

This is Anuj’s second stint as an entrepreneur. Prior to starting Freo, Anuj was the co-founder of SkillWiz, which later pivoted to Tapstart – a job discovery platform. Tapstart organically grew their user base to 300K users with 60K MAU.

In the initial phase of his career, Anuj spent his early years in the advertising industry where he worked with top agencies such as Lowe and JWT. After completing his MBA, he spent 5 years in the telecom industry working in marketing, sales, distribution and product. He was responsible for marketing, sales and distribution roles with Reliance Communications and Bharti Airtel. His last corporate role was at Bharti Airtel as the head of customer acquisitions for all products for Airtel’s Karnataka circle, acquiring about 1.5 Million new customers every month across 1 Lakh retail touch-points.

An alumnus of the prestigious ISB (Indian School of Business), Hyderabad, Anuj was the president of the marketing club while on campus and received the ‘Young Leader Award’ for contribution to ISB and its community. He is also a mathematics graduate from St. Xavier’s, Mumbai.