Manish Kumar

Founder and CEO, KredX

Manish Kumar  is a co-founder of KredX, an invoice discounting marketplace. Armed with deep insights from his experience of financial landscape in India, he founded KredX in 2015. Since founding KredX, he has won the ‘Entrepreneur of The Year’ in Business Services – Money Services at the 7th Annual Entrepreneur India Awards 2017 award and Startup of the year 2018 in the Category “Discounting Platform”.

Under Manish’s leadership, KredX has been featured among the top 100 leading global Fintech innovators in the KPMG-H2 Ventures 2017 Fintech 100 list, the top 50 ventures in The Smart CEO-Startup50 India 2016 Program, Sutra HR’s Top 100 Startups to Watch in 2017, SiliconIndia Startup Of the year 2018, SuperStartUps Asia 2019 – Silver, Skoch Awards 2019 – Silver, and Aditya Birla Bizlabs Fintech 2019.

Manish began his career in 2005 as a Business Consulting Manager at HSBC, he went on to head their private label credit card credit risk acquisition team, followed by credit risk acquisition for card and retail Services business before joining Capital One as an associate director in 2012.