Who we are?

India was faced with the challenge of overcoming a lack of digital awareness, low smartphone adoption, linguistic challenges and unavailability of local content – but Indus OS saw a need and pledged to fill it. Through breakthrough innovations, Indus OS brought together app developers, smartphone brands and users on a single home-grown content and commerce platform, designed to suit the specific needs of the Indian consumers.

Awards & Recognition

TiE50 Silicon Valley, Top Startup Award, 2016
Innovation in OEM Product Award, ET Telecom Awards, 2016
Digital Startup of the Year, Drivers of Digital Awards, 2016
NASSCOM Emerge50 - League of 10 Award Winner - 2016
Business World’s Young Entrepreneur Award 2016
Mobile Economic Forum’s Meffys 2016 Finalist for Innovation in Mobile First Markets & Social Impact
AEGIS Graham Bell Award - Best Innovation for Digital India 2016
BBC Knowledge's - National Digital Marketing Award
Brand of the Year 2016 - 17
Finalist at GSMA's Global Mobile Awards 2017 - Best Mobile Innovation for Emerging Markets
IAMAI's India Digital Awards - Best use of Mobile for Social & Economic Development
Manthan Award South Asia & Asia Pacific - Inclusion & Empowerment
Mobbys Award for excellence in Mobile Entertainment & Technology
BW Disrupt 40 Under 40 – Achiever of the year awarded to Rakesh Deshmukh, Co-Founder & CEO, Indus OS
Business Today’s - India’s Coolest Startup Awards
National Award for Marketing Excellence – Excellence in GUI Design – 2017
Superbrands SuperStartUp 2017
GSMA’s Asia Mobile Awards 2017 Finalist Best Mobile Innovation for Emerging Markets

Meet the team

Rakesh Deshmukh

CEO

Rakesh Deshmukh

RakeshDeshmukh, Co-founder, Director and CEO of Indus, is the driving force behind the company’s growth and rapid global expansion. He has an ideal blend of technical understanding and business acumen, combined with great people skills. He is a pragmatic, strategic thinker, with a lot of insights for structuring a sound strategy.
Akash Dongre

CPO

Akash Dongre

Akash handles Product and Operations at Indus. He is responsible for conceptualizing, selecting, and driving the development of products. A mobile technology expert, he has gained rich experience in the ideation, strategy and delivery of mobile devices, customized OS, applications and software solutions. Akash holds a B.Tech from IIT Bombay. He is a travel freak, a half marathoner, biker and a foodie.
Sudhir B

CTO

Sudhir B

Sudhir is the technology brains behind Indus. He heads product architecture, design and development - overall technology. He had studied Electronics from IIT Bombay. His entrepreneurial adventures date all the way back to his IIT days when he had interned with multiple startups and later met Rakesh & Akash when he set forth on the Indus journey. There is more about Sudhir on his personal website - sudhir.rocks
Vaibhav Shastri

Director - Sales

Vaibhav Shastri

Vaibhav has an experience of 14 years in sales and distribution of mobile handsets at a National level, started his career with Reliance Infocom; worked for Brightpoint India (a multinational distribution company) followed by Telemart communications. With his decade-long experience in mobile handset procurement, supply-chain management, production and sales and distribution, he is now part of the Indus Team. Overseeing launch of the product globally as Sales Director.
Anand Singh

Program Director - Localization

Anand Singh

Anand comes with a 12+ years of experience in the Localization & Learning industry. He had been an entrepreneur running a start-up for 3 years focused at developing Technology and Patient education solutions in the Life-science domain. He joins Indus to head the Language solutions Team as Program Director- Localization.

Advisors & Investors

Samsung Venture Investment Corporation

Samsung Venture Investment Corporation

Samsung Venture Investment Corporation (SVIC) is Samsung’s investment arm that actively invests in future-oriented businesses based on new and innovative technologies that are expected to serve as new growth engines. With investments in over 200 companies, Samsung Venture Investment’s mission is to be a global pioneering CVC that contributes to society and the Samsung group.
Omidyar Network

Omidyar Network

Omidyar Network was established in 2004 by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam. The company has committed more than $780 million to non-profit organizations and for-profit companies across multiple investment areas, including Consumer Internet & Mobile, Education, Financial Inclusion, Governance & Citizen Engagement, and Property Rights.In January 2016, Indus OS received $5 Million in Series A funding which was led by Omidyar Network.
VenturEast

VenturEast

VenturEast is one of the longest standing Venture capital fund managers in India, investing since 1997 and managing close to $325+ million. VenturEast is possibly the only Indian Fund Manager that has dedicated funds and teams for each sector- life sciences & healthcare, and separately for technology driven businesses.
JSW Ventures

JSW Ventures

JSW Ventures is an early-stage tech focused venture capital fund based in Mumbai. They believe that technology drives innovation and innovation creates the future. They are enthusiastic about disruptive trends led by technology that are shaping the way businesses and customers consume products and services and interact with each other. JSW Ventures extends its partnership not just through capital but a commitment to build exceptional companies.
Hari Padmanabhan

Chairman and Mentor

Hari Padmanabhan

Hari angel invested in Indus while cofounding the company with the entrepreneurial team from IIT Mumbai. Hari is the Executive Chairman of the Encore Group and applies business acumen and strategic vision to lead the company. Hari holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from IIT Kanpur and a master’s degree in business administration from IIM Kolkata.
Pranay Chulet

Pranay Chulet

PranayChulet is an Indian entrepreneur and business executive. He is a co-founder and the CEO of Quikr.
Amit Gupta

Amit Gupta

Amit Gupta is co-founder & president at InMobi, a global mobile advertising and technology platform
Naveen Tewari

Naveen Tewari

Naveen Tewari is an Indian entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of InMobi, a global mobile advertising and technology platform
Kunal Bahl

Kunal Bahl

Kunal Bahl is an Indian entrepreneur, co founder and CEO of the e-commerce platform Snapdeal
Rohit Bansal

Rohit Bansal

Rohit Bansal is an Indian entrepreneur, cofounder and COO of e-commerce platform Snapdeal.
Mayank Singhal

Mayank Singhal

Mr.Mayank Singhal serves as Associate Director at Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited. Mr.Singhal co-leads the Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited's consumer, internet and healthcare efforts in India. He serves as Director of Hugefly Technologies Pvt Ltd. He holds MBA from Stanford University
Akhil Chainwala

Akhil Chainwala

Akhil is an alumni of London School of Economics & Political Science. He started his career at Goldman Sachs and he is currently a board member at Quikr & Saltside Technologies. He is also working as a Venture and Growth Investor at Kinnevik AB, a Swedish investment company.