Bengaluru : Authentication and identity infrastructure startup OTPless has elevated Manas Poddar to Chief Business Officer (CBO), completing its new leadership team for its next phase of growth.
As CBO, Poddar will lead revenue, enterprise sales and strategic partnerships as OTPless expands from authentication into broader identity infrastructure.
Poddar, an IIT Delhi graduate, joined OTPless in 2023 as one of its earliest team members and has led its business vertical since. During this period, the company has grown to over 300 million authenticated users, with clients including Meesho, Zepto, Navi, PhysicsWallah, ShareChat, Shiprocket and ixigo. OTPless has reached ₹36 crore in annualised revenue at 2.5X year-on-year growth and has been profitable for the past two quarters.
“Manas has been part of OTPless since our earliest days and has built the relationships that got India’s largest consumer apps to trust us. As we expand into identity, there is no one better placed to lead our business,” said Satyam Nathani, Co-founder and CEO, OTPless.
“I have worked alongside Manas since our very first enterprise onboarding, and he has been at the centre of every major client relationship we have built since. He understands both the technology and what our customers need from it. This role formalises what he has been doing all along: owning the business and building it for scale,” said Tanmay Sagar, Co-founder and COO, OTPless.
“When I joined OTPless, we were a small team convincing India’s biggest apps that login didn’t have to mean waiting for an SMS OTP. Today, some of the country’s largest consumer businesses trust us with the first moment of every customer relationship. My focus as CBO is to deepen those partnerships and help build the identity layer for India’s internet,” said Manas Poddar, Chief Business Officer, OTPless.
Before OTPless, Poddar worked at BharatPe from 2020 to 2022, where he was part of the technical team for the PMC Bank revival and the groundwork for Unity Small Finance Bank.
The appointment follows the recent elevation of cofounders Satyam Nathani as CEO and Tanmay Sagar as COO.
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