Manish Maryada - Founder & CEO, Fello

Manish Maryada

Founder & CEO, Fello

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Founder & CEO at Fello | We are hiring! Join us in make finance fun for young India!

I am Manish Maryada, Founder and CEO of Fello-an EF and Y-Combinator backed company. I have been associated with the fintech ecosystem for over 6+ years and helped in scaling early stage startups like Koinex and Flobiz across Product, Strategy and Operations. At Koinex, I was one of the first team members and worked along with the founders in scaling the company to an exchange doing a trading volume of $265M USD per day. Post Koinex and Flobiz, I have been one of the Founders in Residence of EF-Bangalore 4th Cohort where I started to build Fello since 2021. 

My fintech expertise is complemented by a Masters Degree in Finance from Texas A&M University College Station.

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