Asish Mohapatra

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Asish Mohapatra is an Indian entrepreneur, who is the co-founder of two unicorn startups in India.He began his career in March 2002, when he grabbed a job as a Maintenance Manager, and subsequently an Operations Manager at ITC Ltd. after completing his B. Tech at IIT Kharagpur. While at ITC, he managed a team of a thousand people in the company. Asish with his college friends during his days at IIT, Kharagpur.He left ITC in 2005 to pursue MBA. Post earning his masters degree, he landed a job at McKinsey & Company. He took particular interest in the healthcare sector and spent a long duration at McKinsey serving MNCs and domestic Indian companies in pharmaceuticals, medical equipments, and pharma support services.He met his wife, Ruchi Kalra, during his time at McKinsey & Company.In 2010, Asish started working at Matrix Management Corporation as a senior associate. He was a board member of 7 companies in healthcare and 9 portfolio companies.Around 5 years later, at the end of 2015, Asish left Matrix and found a startup called OFB Tech Pvt. Ltd or OfBusiness, which serves as a single-window for SMEs to get secured and unsecured credit. The first OfBusiness session, circa Aug 2015.In 2016, Asishs pitch for funding got rejected 73 times. [4]Forbes.Six years later, in July 2021, Asishs OfBusiness turned unicorn after the Japanese multinational conglomerate, SoftBank Group Corp. had backed the company. It closed a $160 million funding round at a valuation of around $1.5 billion. Co-founders of OfBusiness.Asish was licensed as an Independent Director by the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs in November 2020. [5]LinkedIn.The first company Asish was appointed as director was Meditrina Hospitals Pvt. Ltd.