Pine Labs
Co-founder and CTO · 1998–2000
During my time
I helped start Pine Labs in Delhi in 1998, building card-based payment technology for Indian retailers. Corporate-history records list me, alongside Rajul Garg, among the company’s original memorandum subscribers.
After my tenure
Pine Labs went on to become one of India’s largest fintech companies and completed its public listing in 2025 — twenty-five years after my tenure ended.
At a glance
- Founded 1998; now one of India’s largest fintech companies.
- Completed its IPO in 2025.
Sources
- Corporate-history record listing Tarun Upadhyay and Rajul Garg as original memorandum subscribers
- StartupTalky — Pine Labs history, identifying Tarun Upadhyay as a co-founder
- Blu Venture Investors — archived biography (co-founder and CTO of Pine Labs)
- about.me — archived biography (CTO roles at Pine Labs, GlobalLogic and hCentive; IIT Delhi)