Kush Taneja

Founder

Palo Alto, California, United States10 yrs 9 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Founder of FamPay with 10M+ active customers.
  • Recognized by Forbes 30 under 30.
  • Passionate about education, health, and technology.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech entrepreneur with a strong focus on education technology.

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Skills

Core Skills

EntrepreneurshipLeadershipProduct DevelopmentUser Experience

Other Skills

CodingComputer ScienceFood & BeverageHiringManagementStart-ups

About

Servant to the next generation | Raising baseline neuroplasticity, gratitude and VO2 max!Kush is the Founder of FamPay (YC S19), designed exclusively for teenagers, one of the largest banking product with 10M+ active customers and processing 150M+ transactions/ month. FamPay is backed by Sequioa, GC, DST, GreenOaks, Elevation and have raised $42M+. Kush is extremely bullish on building for the generation born in 21st century. He is also recognised by Forbes 30 under 30. Other than fintech, Kush is passionate about the intersection of education, health and technology. One of the exciting dream is to make sci-fi a reality, kill dogma affecting a human child's brain development and enable kids to stay always free, curious and independant. Along with solving problems, Kush loves to run, meditate, cook, hike and read.

Experience

Fam

Founder

Dec 2018Present · 7 yrs 3 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

  • Making sure little humans can always experiment with money
EntrepreneurshipLeadershipManagement

Indian institute of technology, roorkee

Student

Jun 2015May 2019 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Roorkee

  • 1. In the very 1st year, skipped univ academics for selling t-shirts to campus students, along with Aayush. We simply learned what it takes to start up
  • 2. 2nd year, I joined campus groups, which is when I along with Chirag, and Harjot made an app. We helped campus students claim refunds of the skipped mess meals from the app and save both money and food. Since I was the mess secretary, we all ate good food in the mess :P
  • 3. 3rd year, Did focus on product lifecycle with companies like 1mg and many early-stage startups: Wheelstreet (YC W17), Newton School, Prattle, Miko, etc Began with coding 1mg app, backend to User Experience of the ShareChat. Learned that product is more than UI/ UX and how content creation can solve real problems ;)
  • 4. 4th year, I began with learning more about strengths, weaknesses and decision making. We lost elections by 0.01% votes! I found out that so many people around us at IITR were not considering their career decision as a life-changing one, that money was becoming a bottleneck to follow their dream and that is when decided to start FamPay to help Indians fix their relationship with money.
  • Projects, I contributed to at the campus, simply out of curiosity for problem-solving
  • Reforming the organizational structure of technical groups
  • Bringing “Google for Education” providing Gsuite to campus students at IIT Roorkee
  • Empowering internal groups at IIT Roorkee, to have their own public IITR web domain names
  • Serving campus students delicious and healthy food for more than 1000+ students, for one year
  • Reducing food wastage by 80% and daily food cost budget by 30% at the campus
  • BUILT Appetizer, the official Food App, was used by many of the campus students
  • Got approval from admins for a permanent lab and budget for the MDG group
  • Worked closely with the Alumni Relations Cell
  • The credit of all the contributions and learnings goes to IIT Roorkee :D
Computer ScienceProduct DevelopmentCodingUser Experience

Education

Y Combinator

Summer 2019

Jan 2019Present

Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Industrial and Product Design

Jan 2015Jan 2019

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