How 3 engineers built India’s largest crypto exchange

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Ashish Singhal, Govind Soni, and Vimal Sagar landed on the idea to build a crypto exchange aggregator startup at a hackathon

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which went on to become CoinSwitch Kuber, India’s second crypto unicorn

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CoinSwitch Kuber made headlines when it announced a $260 million Series C funding round from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Coinbase Ventures, and existing investors

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This marks the first-ever investment by a16z in an Indian startup.

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CoinSwitch Kuber also becomes the second Indian crypto startup to enter the unicorn club after CoinDCX

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CoinSwitch Kuber, is also India’s largest crypto platform — with over 11 million registered users

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Govind, Vimal, and I are all computer science engineers, and we go way back. Govind and I are batchmates from college, and Vimal was a common friend.

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We always loved tech and tried our hands at various innovations, as well as participating and winning several hackathons. The idea for CoinSwitch came from one such hackathon.”

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The three friends were working at Amazon, Microsoft, and Zynga. But the allure of turning their hack into a product

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Set them on the path of entrepreneurship. Thus, CoinSwitch Kuber was launched.

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