A winner of the ‘Red Hat Innovator of the Year’ award among several others, Sandipan brings over two decades of experience across various technology roles. A statistics graduate from ISI, he earned his MBA from IIM Calcutta. Prior to founding Xelp, he was the CTO at Just Dial, a local search engine, where he built and scaled the technology stack, taking it from a mere number to the technology powerhouse it has become. When he joined Just Dial, the company was clocking about 30,000 calls per day, a number that had rocketed to 4.8 million user queries a day by December 2015 when he exited. Turning an entrepreneur at the age of 24 with E Dot Solutions, Sandipan went on to build MoneyControl.com.
Sandipan has played an instrumental role in Web technology at Tata Interactive and led the team which built the first version of Tata.com- the umbrella site for the whole Tata brand back in 1997. Over the years, he helped technology development of several startups as well as new initiatives at large enterprises such as Hyundai, Nextenders, Wipro, Tata Teleservices, Tata Motors, CRISIL MarketWire, Business Standard, IDBI Capital Markets, Standard Chartered Bank, Deutsche Bank, and Edelweiss. Brimming with creative energy and passion to mentor and fund Indian startups, Sandipan founded Xelp three years back. A strong belief in ‘solutions of empathy’ outshining ‘solutions of sympathy,’ he is currently ensuring that hallmark solutions that benefit the next 500 million Indians achieve the success, recognition and respect they deserve. He is strongly committed to seeing such Indian startups share their prosperity with the common Indian household. Xelpmoc was listed on the BSE and NSE in Feb 2019.
