2x founder

Sowmya Rao

Founder. Prev: credit-infrastructure, payments. YC startup founder w 1 exit.

Co-founder

Pay Swifter· Winter 2020 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

in LinkedIn 𝕏 @sowmyarao_

2025Head of Product· Aumnee

Founder · since 2019

Company

Aumnee

Role

Head of Product

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

—

no public source

Based

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Pay Swifter

Stripe for Cannabis

Winter 2020

Experience

Career

Aumnee
VP - Head of Product · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · 2025 – Present
2025
OppDoor part of Binny Bansal's Three State Ventures
AI Regtech / Fintech - Consulting · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · 2024 – 2025
2024
Treez Inc.
Director, ACH Payments · Bangalore, India / Remote · 2022 – 2024
2022
Swifter (Acquired by Treez, Inc in 2022)
Founder
Founder, CEO · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · 2019 – 2023
2019
GIGI BENEFITS
Co-founder
Co-Founder, CEO · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · 2019 – 2021
2019
Y Combinator
Y Combinator Winter 2020 Batch · San Francisco, California, United States · 2020
2020
Uber
Head Public Policy/Policy Strategy - South & SL · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · 2017 – 2019
2017
Google
Counsel, Public Policy & Strategic Policy · Gurgaon, India · 2016 – 2017
2016
National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi
Consultant · New Delhi Area, India · 2012 – 2013
2012
Clifford Chance LLP (London and Singapore)
Lawyer (India) / Solicitor (UK) · London, United Kingdom; Singapore · 2010 – 2012
2010
Luthra & Luthra Law Offices
Lawyer · New Delhi Area, India · 2010
2010
Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India
Intern · New Delhi · 2006
2006

Bio

I started my career working as a securitization lawyer at Clifford Chance, one of the world's largest law firms. I then consulted for the Finance Ministry of India, Google and Uber - steadily transitioning from law to regulatory advisory to strategy. I started Swifter (YCW20) after leaving Uber. We built ACH APIs for a B2C use-case (cannabis) and were acquired by the Shopify for Cannabis - Treez. I spent the last 18 months at Treez as Director-Payments. I'm now looking to build/work in credit.