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Kunal Shah
Kunal Shah

Founder Cred
Ex-Cofounder Freecharge
Profession Entrepreneur and
Venture Capitalist

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His Achievements

▪ Comeback award- Economic Times


▪ Economic Times 2016-Economic Times 40 under 40
▪ Times of India 2016-Fortune 40 under 40
▪ Fortune 2016-Fortune 40 under 40
▪ Fortune Magazine 2015

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About Kunal

▪ Kanal is an Indian entrepreneur and venture capitalist who is the founder of


CRED, which is consider the second-fastest growing unicorn startup in India.
In 2021, this startup was slated to hit a $2 billion valuation with $200 million
funding
▪ For him it wasn‘t easy to make at big in the startup scene. He belonged to a
humble background and started working in his teenage due to has family’s
financial problems. In an interview, while taking about hardships that be faced
in his life, Kunal Shah said, “When you have not had money all your life, the value
that you have for money is what it cat de to other people's lives“

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About Kunal

▪ He started his first job as a junior programmer in a business process


outsourcing company after dropping out of his MBA.
▪ From August 2010 to October 2016, he worked as CEO at FreeCharge, a
company that he founded in 2010.
▪ In July 2017, Axis Bank acquired "FreeCharge" for $60 million.
▪ Kunal Shah used all the revenue generated from the acquisition of his company
to invest in startups both in India and abroad. He invested in 80 startups
including Pianta (healthcare service startup), Unacademy (Ed-Tech startup),
Razorpay (billion-dollar fintech startup)

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About Kunal

▪ Kunal Shah founded CRED in 2018 which targets the top 1% of the Indian
population with a high disposable income to spend.
▪ With CRED, Kunal Shab introduced an incentive based reward system for its
customers to pay their credit card bills with incentives by offering discounts on
airplane tickets and gym memberships, which requires the customer to have a
credit score of 750 or more to avail these benefits
▪ CRED has a customer base of 5.9 million active users and processes roughly
20% of credit card bill payments in India.

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