Himanshu Chandra

Himanshu Chandra

Co-founder, Progcap

Himanshu is the Co-Founder of Progcap, a $600M award winning, financial technology firm that is working to empower the underserved micro-merchants in the emerging markets with financing and digitization solutions. Progcap is backed by marquee investors such as
Google, Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global & Creation Investments, has empowered over a million micro merchants and disbursed over $4B for growth of their businesses. Himanshu began his career at Siemens, a German engineering conglomerate. He has held senior positions at Financial Institutions such as Barclays Bank and The Carlyle Group. Prior to starting Progcap, he was with Standard Chartered Bank driving the Supply Chain Finance business. Himanshu is an engineering graduate and holds an MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur.