Castler
Shubham Jain's work experience begins in 2012 as a Summer Intern at HDFC Standard Life Insurance, where they conducted market research and provided suggestions to improve sales activities. In 2013, they joined Franchise India Holdings Limited, where they worked as an Assistant Marketing Manager and later as an Executive, focusing on strategic alliances, brand partnerships, and marketing strategies. Shubham then moved on to PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry as an Executive Officer, managing the Retail, e-Commerce, FMCG, and ICT Committee and providing industry insights. In 2015, Shubham joined PayU Payments Private Limited, initially as a Key Accounts- PayUmoney Wallet/Checkout and later as Key Accounts- Enterprise, Government & Compulsive Business. Shubham was responsible for overseeing the growth and acceptance of PayU's payment solutions across various merchant categories and played a key role in implementing PayU services in alignment with government and financial inclusion initiatives. In 2017, they worked as a Technology Sales Consultant at FDSHive. Shubham's most recent work experience is at Razorpay, where they started in 2018 as an Associate Director, responsible for building strategic merchant categories like Government, BFSI, Compulsive, and Banking Services. Shubham managed a team, handled key stakeholders, and led efforts to penetrate Razorpay's collection and disbursement solutions. Additionally, Shubham has served as an Angel Investor with Stealth Mode Startup and Stealth Mode Wealthtech. In 2023, they joined Castler as a Senior Vice President - Growth.
Shubham Jain completed their education with a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree in Marketing & Information Technology from Amity University during the years 2011 to 2013. Prior to that, they earned a B.A(Prog.) degree in Tourism and Travel Services Management from Shaheed Bhagat Singh College from 2008 to 2011. In their secondary education, they attended Mira Model School from 2006 to 2008 for their XIIth education in Commerce and Lawrence Public School from 1994 to 2006 for their Xth education. Some additional certifications include Risk Management and Six Sigma Green Belt obtained from the British Standards Institution, although the specific details like the month and year of obtaining these certifications are not provided.
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.