Manish Maryada

Co-Founder

Hyderabad, Telangana, India8 yrs 7 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Founded and scaled a fintech startup to 1 million users.
Raised over $5M from top investors including Y Combinator.
Listed in Forbes 30 under 30 in 2024.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech entrepreneur with extensive experience in product management and business strategy.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementBusiness DevelopmentEntrepreneurshipMarket ResearchStrategyBusiness Strategy

Other Skills

MarketingTeamworkLeadershipProduct DevelopmentPersonal FinanceInvestmentsEarly-Stage StartupsFinanceProject PlanningFinancial AnalysisCorporate FinanceMarketing StrategyStrategic PlanningBusiness-to-Business (B2B)Start-ups

About

Hello World! I am Manish Maryada! Professionally, I recognize myself as a startup+product bee who loves to solve real-world problems and personally, I recognize myself as someone who is always learning and wants to live life to the fullest! I built and scaled a company called Fello from 2020, which was backed by YC, Courtside and EF. I exited the business to another leading fintech firm after which I have been exploring the world, working with early-stage founders and helping them in their goals to build their businesses. I come with nearly 10 years of expertise in fintech, crypto, b2c and banking industries and all these experiences have been a result of my work in startups! During this entire journey, was fortunate to be listed as Forbes 30 under 30 in 2024. But I am working towards the aim of building more real world problem solving ventures, helping other founders and making the world a better place to live in! :) P.S. In the world of AI, I hope to keep my words authentic with some grammatical errors! :D

Experience

8 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 3 mos

Average Tenure

9 mos

Current Experience

Career Break

Jul 2025 – Present · 9 mos

Taking a break, exploring the world that I couldn't in the last few years!
Getting in shape mentally and physically!
Learning mushroom farming, AI tools, and building apps
Helping early-stage founders and consulting startups.
Ideating on my potential next in this course of time and building a few projects in stealth! 🚀

Fello

2 roles

Advisor

Jan 2025 – Jun 2025 · 5 mos

Founder and CEO

Jan 2021 – Dec 2024 · 3 yrs 11 mos

Building India's largest rewarding savings application for the young Indians
Heading the Marketing, Product, Legal and Operations arm of the business
Built and scaled the company to a user base of 1 million users within 1 year of product launch
Built a stellar team of 25 members across product, engineering and marketing
Raised over $5M from leading investors in India, US and UK - Y Combinator, Entrepreneur First, Courtside Ventures and Angels like Kunal Shah, Charlie Songhurst, Lalit Keshre, etc. in 2023
Successfully closed partnerships with banks, NBFCs and Asset Management companies

Product ManagementMarketingBusiness DevelopmentTeamworkLeadership

Entrepreneur first

Founder in Residence

Jul 2020 – Mar 2021 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Selected as one of the 50 Founders in Residence out of 2000+ applicants
Conducted market research and ideated on Fello along with other Founders
Successfully launched the proof of concept of Fello and attracted 10,000+ consumers in 2 months
Raised a Seed round of $1M USD from Entrepreneur First

Market ResearchProduct DevelopmentEntrepreneurship

Zaggle prepaid ocean services pvt. ltd.

Associate Vice President - Products

Feb 2020 – Jun 2020 · 4 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Built the initial building blocks of the neo-banking arm of Zaggle
Ideated, and conceptualised the initial framework along with other product managers and engineers

Product ManagementStrategy

Flobiz

Business & Strategy Manager

Aug 2019 – Jan 2020 · 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Koinex and Flobiz are same! Koinex pivoted into Flobiz. But this one taught me how to go through pivots and build a successful company while managing all the verticals and experimenting multiple products at scale.

Business StrategyProduct Management

Koinex

2 roles

Manager-Business & Strategy

Promoted

May 2019 – Aug 2019 · 3 mos

Learned how to manage different verticals of a business
Played a leading role in scaling the company to an exchange doing trading volumes of $265M per day

Business Strategy