On Wednesday, OTPless, which is a SaaS-based platform for identity management announced that they have appointed BharatPe’s three former executives to their leadership team.
The company further stated in an interview that Anubhav Mathur is appointed as the CTO (Chief Technology Officer), Sahil Chawla as the CSO (Chief Sales Officer), and Pawan Pathak is appointed as the CPO (Chief Product Officer).
Earlier, Anubhav Mathur was leading BharatPe as a Senior Director of, the Engineering department. Apart from that, he has a well-polished career and has worked with several notable companies like Grofers and OLA.
On the other hand, Pawan Pathak was an SVP (Senior Vice President) in organizations like Yatra, Naukri, Paytm, etc.
Sahil Chawla, who has recently joined OTPless as the CSO, has previously worked in the position of Senior Sales at Flipkart, American Express, Paytm, Pine Labs, BharatPe, and Zomato.
Bhavik Koladiya (CEO, OTPless) stated, “We are delighted to have Anubhav, Pawan, and Sahil join our leadership team. Their knowledge, experience, and leadership abilities will be invaluable as we expand and innovate. They will be critical to OTPless’ success as a global authentication company founded in India.”
OTPless has successfully obtained seed funding from several top-notch angel investors like Kunal Shah, Neeraj Arora, Jitendra Gupta, Amrish Rau, Utsav Somani, Fabrice Grinda, Luke Skertich, and Amit Jain. They are the angel investors from companies like Cred, Venture Highway, Jupiter, Pine Labs, Angellist, OLX, FJ Labs, and Uber respectively.
OTPless is known to offer authorization and authentication services for websites and applications while meeting the demands of IT teams and developers to include user authentication in their products.
It is competing with two of the major international competitors in the market, including Okta and Auth0. The access management and customer identity market are anticipated to significantly grow by 2025, and touch about $25Bn.