Sahil Kini

Sahil Kini is the Co-Founder & CEO of Setu. Setu is a company that enables fast, reliable, and secure access to banking systems via APIs. Setu partners with financial institutions, enables account creation and management, routes payments across networks, and absorbs the complexity of regulations for businesses who want to offer financial services to their customers. Setu offers open APIs across four categories - bills, savings, credit, and payments. Any developer can access their sandbox to build an application, and go through a rigorous developer certification program to go live. This makes it easy for all companies to plug-and-play financial services, rather than spend significant effort and time for one-off integrations.

Prior to Setu, Sahil was an India Stack Evangelist with the iSPIRT Foundation where they were a core team member that drafted policies and liaised with several government departments and industry leaders. Furthermore, they evangelized the impact of the IndiaStack across industry events and conferences.

Sahil has also worked as a columnist with HT MINT, as well as a Founder with Magnet Works. Sahil has also held positions in New Product Development with Titan Industries and as a Product Manager with Ezetap Mobile Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Currently, Sahil is on a sabbatical resource with the Unique Identification Authority of India.

Sahil Kini attended the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, where they earned a B.Tech in Metallurgy & Materials Engineering. Sahil was awarded the Shankar Dayal Sharma Prize at IIT-Madras for being the best all-round student in curricular & extra curricular activities in the outgoing class of the university. Sahil was also awarded the Institute Blues – Silver Medal for all round achievement (one of less than 40 awardees in IIT-M history) and the Ratna Award for the best academic performance in the branch for 5th and 6th Semesters. In addition, they were a recipient of the National Talent Search Examination scholarship in Class X (awarded to 750 students out of 150,000 candidates).