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Sandeep Pyapali

Founder

Founder at Mesta

Redwood City, California, United States

FoundedMesta

About

Sandeep Pyapali is the Founder and CEO of Mesta, a payment network that integrates traditional payment rails with stablecoin blockchain systems. He has 16 years of experience in product management and leadership across financial payment solutions in India, China, the US, and Europe, including roles at Uber, where he led earner payouts in more than 70 countries and payments for Uber Asia, as well as earlier positions at Bill.com and PayPal. He has spoken at payment industry conferences including EuroFinance, NACHA Payments, and Money 20/20.

Founder at Mesta

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Mesta's investors · 7

Circle VenturesGaruda VenturesSan Francisco · $500K – $1.5M checksPaxosTomahawk.VCPfäffikon · $250K – $2M checksVillage GlobalCovina · $100K – $500K checksWestern Technology InvestmentPortola Valley · $250K – $30M checksWTIPortola Valley

Co-founders at Mesta

KPKiran Polavarapu
Kiran PolavarapuFounder

Experience

  1. MestaFounder and CEOcurrent2024 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  2. Stealth StartupHead of Product2022
  3. Career BreakTravel2022
  4. UberGroup Product Manager - Payments Platform2018 — 2022
  5. UberProduct Lead - Asia Strategic Payments2016 — 2018Bengaluru Area, India and San Francisco Bay Area, USA
  6. UberSenior Product Manager - Driver Payments2015 — 2016San Francisco Bay Area
  7. Bill.comPrincipal Product Manager2014 — 2015Palo Alto
  8. Bill.comSenior Product Manager2013 — 2014Palo Alto
  9. PayPalSenior Product Manager - New Funding Products2011 — 2013San Jose, CA
  10. Kellogg School of ManagementStudent2010 — 2011Greater Chicago Area
  11. InfosysProduct Manager - Finacle (Core Banking Solution)2007 — 2010Beijing, China
  12. IBMBusiness Analyst - Financial Services Sector2006 — 2007

Skills & more

Payments15Product Management28Analytics21Requirements Gathering6Financial Services15Business Analysis24Relationship Management1Credit Cards3Competitive Analysis10E-commerce9Payment Systems11Agile Methodologies6
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Frequently asked questions

Who is Sandeep Pyapali?
Sandeep Pyapali is the Founder and CEO of Mesta, a payment network that integrates traditional payment rails with stablecoin blockchain systems. He has 16 years of experience in product management and leadership across financial payment solutions in India, China, the US, and Europe, including roles at Uber, where he led earner payouts in more than 70 countries and payments for Uber Asia, as well as earlier positions at Bill.com and PayPal. He has spoken at payment industry conferences including EuroFinance, NACHA Payments, and Money 20/20.
Where does Sandeep Pyapali work?
Sandeep Pyapali is Founder of Mesta.
What companies did Sandeep Pyapali found?
Sandeep Pyapali founded Mesta.
Where did Sandeep Pyapali go to school?
Sandeep Pyapali studied at Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management (MBA, Entrepreneuship); Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (MBA - International Business, Trade); Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (B.Tech, Computer Science).

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Also attended Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management760

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Also attended Indian Institute of Foreign Trade12

Animesh SharmaVP - GTM at Fireside Ventures Advisory LlpTaro HizumeGeneral Partner at Ff Venture CapitalSapna KaupurInvestor at Sand Hill AngelsDaivik RavalAssociate Vice President, Growth Equity at Trifecta Capital AdvisorsSrinidhi RaoPartner at Next47Nihar DigheAVP at IndigoEdge

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Also attended Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University18

Abhilash AHead of Marketing & Communications at Kae CapitalSateesh AndraManaging Director at Endiya PartnersSampath KumarVenture Partner at Tykhe VenturesSrikanth TirumalaVenture Advisor at Inflexor VenturesSujay JaladiInvestor at FalconX Credit / Pareto VaultSarah ChoppalaFinancial Controller at Inveniam

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Shared employers

Also worked at Mesta2

Jacob MullinsVenture Partner at Copper Sky CapitalKiran PolavarapuFounder at Mesta

Also worked at Uber477

Bill GurleyGeneral Partner Emeritus at BenchmarkJason CalacanisFounder of LAUNCH; host of This Week in StartupsAndrew ChenGeneral Partner at Andreessen HorowitzGarrett CampCo-founder of Uber and StumbleUpon; founder of ExpaRaquel UrtasunFounder & CEO of WaabiFrédérique DameInvestor at GV (Google Ventures)

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Also worked at Bill.com23

Rory O'DriscollPartner at Scale Venture PartnersStacey BishopPartner at Scale Venture PartnersDavid HornikFounder of Lobby CapitalPeter KightSenior Advisor at Commerce VenturesEddy EkstromVice President, Data Science at Mainsail PartnersBrian JacobsVenture Capitalist Emergence, Moai Capital at AIF

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Also worked at PayPal165

Peter ThielCo-founder & Partner at Founders FundReid HoffmanCo-founder of LinkedIn; Partner at GreylockRoelof BothaAdvisor & former Steward at Sequoia Capital; SpaceX board memberDavid SacksCo-founder & General Partner at Craft Ventures; former White House AI & Crypto CzarKeith RaboisManaging Director at Khosla VenturesJoe LonsdaleFounder & Managing Partner of 8VC; co-founder of Palantir and Addepar

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