Day 13 of 100 · Fintech

Razorpay

Two IIT Roorkee batchmates could not collect payments online, so they built the rails.

Started atIIT Roorkee
Founded2014
FoundersHarshil Mathur & Shashank Kumar
CountryIndia

How it started

They tried to build a different product first, hit India's broken payment infrastructure, and pivoted to fixing the infrastructure itself.

The lesson for your campus The obstacle blocking your idea is often the bigger business.

Why every campus needs an Innovation-Hub

Why we are telling this story

The next company on a list like this one has not been founded yet. Right now it is a student in a lecture hall with an idea nobody has asked about, and no room to build it in. Innovation-Hub is that room: a permanent space inside your institution where students from every department explore, experiment, collaborate and prototype.

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