Founder Profile
Sameer Nigam
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Sameer Nigam?
Sameer Nigam is a founder of PhonePe, which was founded in 2015 with Rahul Chari and Burzin Engineer.
- Company founded
- PhonePe
- Founded
- 2015
- Co-founders
- Rahul Chari and Burzin Engineer
Background
Indian tech entrepreneur and former Flipkart executive.
Founding Story
Sameer Nigam co-founded PhonePe in 2015. While serving as the Senior Vice President of Engineering at Flipkart, he witnessed the absolute nightmare of processing massive cash-on-delivery payments in India. Realizing the impending launch of the UPI system would completely revolutionize Indian banking, he left Flipkart to build PhonePe, perfectly timing the catastrophic 2016 demonetization crisis to capture massive market share. Sameer Nigam was born in 1978.
Sources
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- Moneycontrol: PhonePe FY26 revenue and loss (PhonePe)
- ETBFSI: PhonePe revenue mix from DRHP (PhonePe)