Puneet Gupta
Co-Founder
Kaleidofin
Puneet is a Co-Founder at Kaleidofin, a fintech platform that propels under-banked customers towards meeting their real-life goals by providing intuitive and tailored financial solutions. He believes that the power of technology can be harnessed to amplify the role financial services can play in the lives of customers. Kaleidofin has partnered with over 50 financial institution partners that collectively reach out to over 20 million customers. ki cash, Kaleidofin’s wealth management offering for informal sector customers today reaches out to over 110,000 customers. This is supported by Kaleidofin’s credit scoring model called ki score, has in the post covid period been used to sanction over 1.8 million loans aggregating to INR 7000 crores (USD 900 million) in new funding to its informal sector customers.
Prior to setting up kaleidofin, Puneet was also a co-founder at the IFMR Trust Group, now Dvara Trust and Northern Arc Capital. At Dvara, Puneet took up several operating and board roles. His last role at Dvara was that of the Group CFO. He currently serves on the Investment Committee at the Incubation Cell at IIT Madras and is a member of the Board of Management of Sewa Bank.
He began his formal career with ICICI Bank where he worked for a period of 7 years in various roles including coordinating the work of the micro finance practice at ICICI Bank. During his tenure with ICICI Bank, he has also worked in a CSR group where he was responsible for making investments in the area of education and Microfinance. He has significant experience of working closely with NGO, academicians, State Governments and donor agencies.
Puneet also has experience in running and managing his family business for a period of 4 years. He is a commerce graduate with a Master’s degree in Rural Management from Institute of Rural Management.
