Castler
Debarati Bhattacharya currently serves as a Manager at Castler since November 2023. Prior to this role, Debarati held the position of Deputy Manager at Kotak Mahindra Bank from February 2023 to November 2023, focusing on escrow operations. Debarati also worked as an Assistant Manager in escrow operations at Axis Bank from June 2019 to February 2023 and began a career as a Transaction Officer at HDFC Bank from October 2017 to August 2018. Debarati holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electronics and Communications from MITS, Rayagada, completed in January 2017.
Castler
Castler Is Building the New Operating System For Escrow Banking. Castler’s unique Escrow Banking Stack is the middleware between Banks and Enterprises to solve the problems of ever-changing business and revenue models, complex transaction flows, source of money, identity verification, fraud management and customer-consumer protection. Castler is a global escrow platform for enterprises offering both domestic and cross-border escrow solutions. Operational since April 2021, the Company works with 10 Banking Partners and is the trusted escrow solution for over 500 enterprises and manages over INR 5000 crores in transactions every month. Trust is the most important digital currency and Castler is building the epitome of Trust -as-a-Service in India. Castler has raised $6 million in a Pre-Series A , backed by Capital 2B (an Info Edge fund), Flipkart and IIFL Ventures. Stride Ventures & Piper Serica also participated in the funding round along with returning investors Zerodha, Venture Catalysts, 9Unicorns, and FAAD Network. Castler is a pioneer in the field of Digital Escrow in India. Founded by Vineet Singh and Dinesh Kumar, both startup veterans, the company’s endeavor is to build a global escrow platform for both domestic and cross border transactions on the pillars of good governance and responsible execution. Castler recently appointed Kumar Amit, ex-VP Razorpay as Co-founder & COO towards its endeavor of scaling the business to 100x.