Ashish Singhal (born February 12, 1989) is an Indian entrepreneur and businessman. He is the Founder and CEO of CoinSwitch, a Crypto platform.[1][2] Ashish Singhal is the member and contributor on World Economic Forum.[3]

Ashish Singhal
Born (1989-02-12) February 12, 1989 (age 35)
NationalityIndian
Alma materNetaji Subhas University of Technology
Occupation(s)Entrepreneur, Businessman
Known forCo-founder and CEO, (CoinSwitch)
Founder and CEO, (Peepal Co)

Early life and career

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Ashish Singhal was born in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, in a middle-class family.

Singhal attended Netaji Subhas University of Technology, Delhi and completed a degree in computer engineering in 2005 [citation needed].

Ashish Singhal has worked with various companies such as Reap Benefit, Amazon, Microsoft, and Livspace at leadership positions.

In 2014, Ashish Singhal along with Govind Soni and Vimal Sagar Tiwari, co-founded CoinSwitch, a global aggregator of Cryptocurrency exchanges. Together they build a hack to discover the effective price of crypto across exchanges. They made their ecosystem stronger by adding a simple UI/UX and kept working on it based on user comments to make it better.[4]

In 2023, Ashish founded PeepalCo which is the holding company of CoinSwitch. He is the founder and group CEO of PeepalCo.[5]

In 2024, Ashish launched Lemonn which is the part of the parent group PeepalCo. Lemonn is an investment platform offering stocks and mutual funds.[6]

Awards

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  • Startup Awards 2024[7]
  • Best Crypto Entrepreneur of the Year at W3 Summit 2023[8]

References

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  1. ^ Singh, Navdeep (6 March 2024). "CoinSwitch CEO optimistic about regulatory shift towards innovation in India's digital ecosystem". The Economic Times.
  2. ^ Sreedhar, Vidya (18 May 2023). "Scaled tech infrastructure to offer products beyond crypto: Ashish Singhal, CoinSwitch". The Economic Times.
  3. ^ "Ashish Singhal". World Economic Forum.
  4. ^ Pillai, Kavya (14 December 2022). "The Kuber Of Digital Currency Ashish Singhal, Co-Founder and CEO, COINSWITCH". Entrepreneur.
  5. ^ "PeepalCo had plans to diversify since inception". Financialexpress. 24 April 2024.
  6. ^ "PeepalCo's Lemonn launches Futures and Options trading". BusinessStandard.
  7. ^ "Startup Award 2024". Entrepreneurindia.com.
  8. ^ "W3Summit 2023". www.w3summit.io.