Founder Profile
Vaibhav Gupta
Last reviewed: September 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Background
Vaibhav Gupta possessed an incredibly rigorous, deeply technical background in advanced corporate finance, complex strategic consulting, and massive-scale institutional capitalization. Having successfully graduated from IIT Delhi and the University of Virginia, and operating as a fiercely capable consultant at McKinsey before scaling Flipkart, this intensely commercial foundation provided the exact financial mastery required to successfully architect the massively dominant Udaan credit operations.
Founding Story
Vaibhav Gupta is a highly astute Indian corporate strategist, fiercely visionary financial operator, and the profoundly influential CEO and co-founder fundamentally responsible for the highly complex commercial capitalization and credit architecture of the massive Udaan wholesale empire. Operating as an incredibly talented senior executive handling massive business finance at Flipkart, Gupta aggressively recognized that working capital was the absolute core bottleneck for Indian retailers. By relentlessly building highly scalable, incredibly secure digital underwriting algorithms and fiercely securing massive institutional capital to fund retailer credit lines, his absolutely rigorous financial execution completely guaranteed the massive viral adoption of the B2B platform. His massive execution permanently established the financial foundation of the multi-billion dollar Udaan ecosystem.