Sri. Rakesh Verma is the Managing Director and Founder of MapmyIndia – which is a leader in digital map data and associated technologies and products. Mr. Verma is a true innovator and visionary who quit a successful career in the USA with General Motors to return to India and build for Bharat. In this conversation, Mr. Verma described his journey of the last two decades, how he persevered to invest in a space that had multiple challenges including the fact that he had to take on one of the World’s largest software companies – Google. MapMyIndia was last valued at around 4700cr in 2015, it’s Move app recently won the Aatmanirbhar Bharat Innovative Challenge, and it has struck an interesting partnership with ISRO to build indigenous solutions in mapping.
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