Johney Maheshwari

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs 8 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led $250M in acquisitions at Razorpay.
Expert in Fintech, Payments, and BFSI sectors.
Driving growth through strategic partnerships and investments.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Investment Banking expert with a strong focus on M&A and corporate development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Mergers & AcquisitionsCorporate DevelopmentInvestmentsPrivate Equity Fund-raising

Other Skills

AlgorithmsAnalysisBankingBusiness AnalysisBusiness DevelopmentBusiness StrategyCC++Capital MarketsConsultingCore JavaCorporate FinanceCorporate StrategyCorporate Strategy FormulationData Analysis

About

Driving inorganic growth via partnerships, investments and M&A for Times Internet. Looking forward to connecting with passionate founders at Johney.maheshwari@timesinternet.in Prior to this, led CorpDev at Razorpay helping the group deploy ~$250M across multiple acquisitions and investments. Also, Principal at Razorpay Ventures, the venture investment arm investing in earlyn stage startups. Earlier with EY Investment Banking focusing on M&A and PE Fund-raising in Financial Services and FinTech sectors. Successful deal closures in NBFC, MFI, Insurance, Payments, Wallets, FinTech and InsureTech space. Fintech, Payments, BFSI expert.

Experience

10 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 2 mos

Current Experience

Times internet

Head of CorpDev (Investments and Acquisitions)

Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru South, Karnataka, India · On-site

Razorpay

2 roles

Principal - Razorpay Ventures

Jul 2024 – Mar 2025 · 8 mos

Leading Investments at Razorpay Ventures - aims to support founders building B2B software startups in India. Beyond capital, we offer access to Razorpay's tech stack & sandbox environment, access to a large merchant base, domain expertise & mentorship. https://razorpay.com/m/ventures/

Associate Director - Corporate Development (Investments and M&A)

Aug 2021 – Mar 2025 · 3 yrs 7 mos

Driving inorganic growth via partnerships, investments and M&A at Razorpay.
Key deals:
Acquisition of BillMe, a digital invoicing and CRM player for offline brands
Acquisition of Ezetap, an offline payments player
Acquisition of PoshVine, a loyalty and rewards player
Acquisition of Curlec, a recurring payments player in Malaysia- Razorpay's first international acquisition
Acquisition of iZealiant, an ACS provider
Investment in HostBooks, a BizFinOps SaaS platform for SMEs

Mergers & AcquisitionsCorporate DevelopmentInvestments

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4 roles

Vice President

Promoted

Jul 2021 – Jul 2021 · 0 mo

M&A and PE Fund-raising in Financial Services and FinTech sectors. Successful deal closures in NBFC, MFI, Insurance, Payments, Wallets, FinTech and InsureTech space.
Major assignments:
Advised StockEdge in its strategic partnership and capital raise from Kotak Securities
Advised Union Bank of India in selling its stake in IndiaFirst Life Insurance*
Advised ICICI Lombard in acquiring the non-life business of Bharti AXA General Insurance
Advised DHFL and WGC in selling their stake in Avanse Financial Services to Warburg Pincus
Advised State Bank of India (SBI) in divesting a minority stake in its payments business to Hitachi, Japan
Advised DHFL General Insurance in primary fund raise and its acquisition by Sachin Bansal’s Navi Tech
Advised ICICI Lombard General Insurance in acquiring Unbox Technologies (a SaaS platform)
Advised National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) in the acquisition of IDFC-IFL, a NBFC-IDF
Advised Geosansar Advisors in acquiring Andromeda, the largest offline loan origination platform in India
Advised SBI in divesting a stake in National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) to multiple domestic institutions
Advised Indiabulls Consumer Finance in acquiring TranServ (Udio wallet)
Advised an Indian non-life insurer in acquiring a SaaS platform
Advising a large domestic financial corporate group in exiting their non-life insurance venture
Advised SV Creditline Ltd (SVCL) in an equity fund raise from ICICI Prudential Life Insurance
Advised a south-based microfinance company in a strategic stake sale *
Advised a large general insurance company in the strategic acquisition of a standalone health insurer*
Advised Manappuram Finance in the acquisition of Indian School Finance Company, a niche education finance player*
deal did not consummate