Founder Profile
Shashank Kumar
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Shashank Kumar?
Shashank Kumar is a founder of Razorpay, which was founded in 2014 with Harshil Mathur.
- Company founded
- Razorpay
- Founded
- 2014
- Co-founders
- Harshil Mathur
Background
Indian software engineer and IIT Roorkee graduate.
Founding Story
Shashank Kumar co-founded Razorpay in 2014 alongside Harshil Mathur. Frustrated by the absolute nightmare of integrating archaic, highly bureaucratic bank payment gateways (which took weeks of paperwork) while trying to build a crowdfunding site, he built Razorpay. As the technical architect, he designed the incredibly simple, developer-friendly API that allowed any Indian startup to accept payments in less than an hour. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).
Sources
This profile does not yet cite a source specific to Shashank Kumar. The sources below document the company company rather than the person, so check them against the claims above.
- Razorpay consolidated results (via Entrackr) (Razorpay)
- Razorpay on Wikipedia (Razorpay)