Healthcare fintech firm AyushPay has appointed Vivek Kapoor as its new Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer. Vivek is one of the co-founders of DineOut, the dining out and restaurant tech platform, which was acquired by Swiggy in last year May.  Vivek had joined Swiggy along with other co-founders post the acquisition. 

Kapoor’s accomplishments during his tenure at Dineout were remarkable, he played a pivotal role in building the restaurant tech platform from scratch to Swiggy’s acquisition. Recognizing the potential of AyushPay, Vivek became an angel investor and has now assumed a key role in shaping the company’s future.

Under Kapoor’s leadership, AyushPay has expanded its portfolio by introducing innovative solutions that address critical healthcare challenges. The company’s primary mission is to ensure that every Indian has access to healthcare without facing financial barriers. 

Nimith Agrawal, Founder & CEO at AyushPay, stated, “We are thrilled to have Vivek Kapoor join AyushPay as our Co-Founder. His entrepreneurial expertise and unwavering commitment to our vision have been evident from the beginning when he became an angel investor. Together, we are poised to revolutionize the healthcare industry.”

Reflecting on his new role, Kapoor shared his excitement, saying, “Joining AyushPay is an exciting new chapter in my entrepreneurial journey. My decision to be a part of AyushPay stems from my passion to solve the healthcare affordability problem in India. Every lower and middle-class family in our country has faced this challenge at least once in their lifetime. I aim to alleviate the stress that families already endure due to ongoing health concerns or prevent them from experiencing such hardships through affordable preventive healthcare plans.”

The company also announced its portfolio expansion and launched Ayush Kavach, a comprehensive subscription model providing highly affordable health benefits. 

AyushPay was started by Nimith Aggarwal and Col Hemraj in 2021.

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Data-centric AI platform Cogniquest Technologies has appointed Ganesh Mallya as Co-founder and Chief Business Officer.  

Ganesh has 21+ years of experience in leadership roles at organizations such as Infosys, Polaris, CSC, Hexaware and Clear, and is a serial entrepreneur with successful exits. He co-founded Ybanq, a B2B payments fintech backed by YCombinator, Soma Capital and FoundersX Ventures. Ybanq was acquired by Clear for their foray in to B2B payments in 2021.  

Cogniquest’s patent-pending platform optimizes document-intensive business processes to improve both operational and financial metrics. In his new role, Ganesh will focus on enabling global customer experience with the power of data-centric AI and ensure true digital transformation of customer enterprises. 

“Data-centric AI is the future of digital transformation. Cogniquest’s patent-pending data-centric AI platform is rightly placed to disrupt the intelligent document processing and data transformation space,” said Ganesh.  

“Ganesh comes with a strong leadership, 0-1 and sales experience in enterprise as well as the startup space. As we are scaling our organization, he will add to our leadership and take our solutions to global customers and enable digital transformation,” said Satish Grampurohit, Co-founder and Chief Advisor at Cogniquest Technologies.  

“Cogniquest’s data-centric AI platform was built with 15+ years of deep understanding of linguistics, mathematics, and cutting-edge AI/ML technologies. We are excited to welcome Ganesh to our stellar team of linguists, mathematicians and technologists. I am sure, together we will enable true digital transformation for global customers,” said Girish Kerodi, Co-founder and CEO of Cogniquest.  

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