Anil Pinapala

Anil is a thought leader in the small-dollar lending space in the USA and is credited with architecting, and implementing the industry’s first cloud-based SaaS LMS which has been operating since 2002 and grew it into an Industry leader within a span of 5 years with adoption from the Industry’s top 5 for their brick & mortar as well as digital lending needs.

In 2013, Anil founded TekFriday Solutions in Miami with an office in Hyderabad that specializes in Lending Portfolio Management in digital sub-prime lending in USA. In the last 3 years, TekFriday has disbursed over USD 600 MM to over 2 lakh customers and collected payments exceeding a Billion US Dollars with its 250-member team spread across Technology, Data Science and Back-Office Transaction Processing.

In August 2017, Anil founded VIVIFI India Finance, a FinTech NBFC that offers Innovative Financial Products to customers across the Credit Spectrum with focus on the Under-Served / Unserved Customers. VIVIFI’s flagship product, FlexSalary is an emergency line of credit that provides unsecured personal loans to prime and non-prime salaried class individuals. FlexSalary has been received very well in the last 12 months of its commercial operations with over 20,000 active accounts and operating across the geography of India.