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Sandeep Pyapali

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Founder at Mesta

Redwood City, California, United States

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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.

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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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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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