Manifesto / A letter from the founders
We are not building
a startup.
Sagar Pinninti
Founder & CEO
KLN Dileep Chakravarthi
Co-founder
2026-04-09
We are building an institution.
There is a story India keeps telling itself: that we are great at executing other people's ideas. That we are the back office of the world. That our job is to scale, optimize, and deliver — but not to invent.
That story is about to end.
India produces more engineers every year than any country on earth. We have the largest pool of mathematical talent in the world. We send people to the moon for a fraction of what others spend. We built UPI — a payments system so well-engineered that the rest of the world is still trying to copy it.
And yet, when you ask a child in Bangalore which company they want to work for, the answer is almost always headquartered somewhere else.
Zarqnix exists to change that answer.
Why a multi-product company.
The companies that endure are not the ones that solve a single problem beautifully. They are the ones that build the muscle to solve hard problems again, and again, and again — across decades, across markets, across categories. Apple. Stripe. Sony in its prime. Tata at its founding.
One product is a project. Many products, built with the same standard, is an institution. We chose the harder path on purpose.
Why Verikred first.
Trust is the substrate of every economy. Every job offer, every loan, every partnership — they all rest on a quiet question: can I believe what you are telling me about yourself?
For the entire history of professional work, the answer has been: kind of. Sort of. Mostly. Resumes are unverified. LinkedIn is unverified. References are political. The cost of fraud is borne by everyone.
Verikred is our answer. It is a system that takes claims and turns them into proofs. Cryptographically signed credentials. Tamper-evident logs. Open standards. A Trust Score that is not opinion — it is mathematics.
We picked it first because it is hard, because it matters, and because India — with its Aadhaar, its DigiLocker, its UPI heritage — is uniquely positioned to ship it well.
What we will not do.
We will not chase trends. We will not write checks to acquire growth. We will not hire because we raised. We will not ship features we do not believe in. We will not optimize for the next quarter at the expense of the next decade.
We will move slowly when slow is correct, and fast when fast is correct. We will be wrong often, and we will say so. We will treat our customers like adults, our team like family, and our craft like the only thing that cannot be faked — because it isn't.
An invitation.
If any of this resonates — if you are an engineer who wants to build something that lasts, a designer who has been waiting for an excuse to do your best work, or someone who simply believes that the next great technology company can come from anywhere — we want to hear from you.
Twenty years from now, someone in a small town in Andhra Pradesh or Assam or Uttar Pradesh will read about an Indian company that changed how the world thinks about trust. We would like that company to be us. And we would like you to be the reason it was.
Onwards,
Sagar & Dileep
Sagar Pinninti · KLN Dileep Chakravarthi
Zarqnix Private Limited
Last updated · 2026-04-09