Summary
Shashank Mehta is a product and payments leader with 14 years of experience scaling fintech products and businesses from first principles. As a founding member and former Head of Product Strategy at Razorpay, he helped grow the company to $10B+ annualized TPV and launched RazorpayX and Razorpay Capital, scaling RazorpayX to $3B+ payouts TPV in eight months and driving a $100M annualized disbursal rate for Capital with zero NPA. He combines hands-on engineering (early work building core payment flows, mobile stack and patents) with strategic P&L ownership, having led product, design and growth efforts across multiple launches like Payment Links, Subscriptions and Payroll. Now a Partner at Mars Shot Ventures, he invests across sectors while bringing operator-led perspective from building one of India’s largest payments platforms. Based in Bengaluru and an IIT Roorkee alumnus, he’s as comfortable architecting payment systems as he is steering product strategy and go-to-market for fintech offerings.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee