Aneesh Varma

Aneesh Varma is a London-based serial entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as the founder of Aire - a fintech startup building an new credit score for consumers who have limited existing credit data (also known as thin-file consumers). He also previously co-founded FabriQate, an international mobile technology company^[1] which went on to be an HSBC Startup Star 2008 & 2009, LDA KC Award 2009, British Council YCE in 2009 and CF500 in 2010.

Varma has been a vocal campaigner for financial inclusion. He was educated at Lehigh University, USA studying Engineering and a second degree in Quantitative Finance. He was recognised by the European Commission as one of 12 Entrepreneur of the Year nominees in 2014 ^[2] and by the British Council as a Young Entrepreneur 2009^[3] in the technology sector.

At age 15, Varma achieved a perfect score on the Cambridge University course for Advanced Mathematics. He continued his mathematical work at university, completing the PhD coursework in during his Bachelors degree.

Varma started his first business at 16 and was involved with startups in his university days. At age 21 he was hired into JPMorgan in New York working on transactions for Financial Technology industry including Visa, Synovus and other consumer finance lenders.

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