IDfy is the Indian Web's Dark Knight | Ashok Hariharan | 1B+ Verifications

🎙️Founders Unfiltered Ep-107:

Brought to you by the Founders Unfiltered podcast by A Junior VC - Unscripted conversations with Indian founders about their story and the process of building a company. Hosted by Aviral and Mazin.

Join us as we talk to Ashok Hariharan, the CEO of IDfy about their story.

Ashok earned his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Penn State Engineering and went on to complete his MBA at the Indian School of Business.

His career as a hardware engineer includes positions at Acterna, Coree Networks, Marconi Communications, Laurel Networks, and Astuto Networks. He also served as a strategy manager at British Telecom.

In 2008, he founded Gaboli Online Services and has been the CEO of IDfy since May 2011.

🏢 About IDfy:
IDfy is an Integrated Identity Platform that combats fraud with advanced KYC, KYB, and verification solutions. Recognized by Deloitte and Forbes in 2023, IDfy performs 2 million daily verifications.

Key offerings include APIs for verification, a video onboarding platform, RiskAI for risk management, IDfy360 for custom workflows, and CrimeCheck for legal history checks.

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🦄 Start-up Chronicles:    • Start-up Chronicles - Weekly  
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Aviral Bhatnagar is a VC at Venture Highway and is the Founder of A Junior VC. He started the A Junior VC Newsletter in 2018 after observing whitespace in conversations in the Indian Venture ecosystem. He completed his B. Tech from IIT Bombay and MBA from IIM Ahmedabad.

Mazin Biviji is a Product Owner at Agoda and a founding member of A Junior VC. He previously worked at Deloitte as a Senior Consultant. He completed his MSE and BSE from the University of Michigan and his MBA from INSEAD.

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🔎 Research:
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4. Deepthi Nagoorkar -   / deepthi-nagoorkar-64408085  

00:00 Intro
02:24 Rapid Fire
08:24 Early Days
17:02 First Company
19:01 Meeting the Co-founder
20:33 The Idea
22:30 Post Ideation
23:51 Failure of the First Version
25:20 Start of the Enterprise Business
25:53 Initial Pitch
28:32 Growth Stage
29:50 The Struggles
31:21 Leadership lessons in Growth Phase
33:36 Vipassana
35:12 The North Star
37:07 Culture and Transition
38:57 Leadership Development
41:58 The Website
45:10 Fraud
1:00:18 Accelerated Growth
01:04:26 Unfiltered Feedback

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