Bengaluru Startup Meetup

Playo is a one stop destination app for all things sports – be it to find playpals based on your timing preferences or to discover and reserve sports facilities in your neighborhood. In addition, our contextual loyalty program rewards all your social app activity, which you can then redeem against attractive offers available only to our community.

App Features:
• Meetup with playpals and groups in your neighborhood based on your skills, sporting interests and timing preferences
• Host a game and challenge friends to a match
• Control who you play with to ensure your safety and privacy
• Invite friends to Playo and share your games with them
• Chat with your team and the community
• Discover and book sports and activity venues nearby on the go
• View amenities, pricings, community reviews and user ratings
• Reserve your favourite court on the app using your credit/debit card, net-banking, mobile wallet or facility membership
• Track your games and bookings and boost your community ratings for your sporting skills
• Gain Karma (reward) points for your social activity and redeem them against bookings and exciting offers.
• Stay updated with real-time alerts and notifications

2x Founder, Green Energy Enthusiast, Building Future of Autonomous Mobility

Manesh is co-founder of Flo Mobility, a company building a pure camera based autonomous tech stack that can be applied to lawn mowers, sprayers, tillers, weeders and other vehicles/ equipments/ robots used in farming. Flo mobility's vision is to create bleeding edge multi-utility global autonomous tech platform that can democratise the enabling of autonomous capabilties on vehicles across industries.

Before Flo Mobility, he co-founded Mockbank, an edu-tech startup offering online courses for govt job entrance competitive exams. Mockbank raised money from Blume ventures and few angel investors and was later acquired by Indiavidual Learning Pvt Ltd (Embibe), part of Reliance JIO group.

Earlier, Manesh co-founded a cloud based e-procurement solutions startup Sourceweb. After few years of operations with marquee clients like Samsung, KPMG, etc, Sourceweb was acquired by US based global procurement solution provider, Xeeva Inc. 

Before starting his entrepreneurial journey, Manesh worked with companies like IBM and Sify where he spearheaded several large scale IT enabled business transformation initiatives.

Manesh is a seasoned entrepreneur; a thought leader who is passionate about startups and the challenges that they offer. He has mastered the art of efficient execution that is key to any startup's success. He strongly propagates the principal of building 'more for less' by having razor sharp focus and being meticulous to get it right the first time.

Saketh was a co-founder of Perpule, a retail tech startup which had a successful exit to Amazon about an year back. Perpule had raised investment from notable investors like Kalaari Capital, Prime Ventures, & Venture Highway and had almost all leading retailers in the country like Hypercity, SPAR, MORE as their clientele. 

Saketh graduated from IIT Madras in 2015, previously worked at Goldman Sachs and is currently working with Amazon and is an Angel investor as well. He was also in the past recognized in the Forbes 30 under 30 Asia & India 2018.