Pallavi Shrivastava

Pallavi is the Co-founder of Progcap, an award-winning fintech firm empowering underserved micro-enterprises in India with financing and technology solutions to digitise their supply chains. Progcap aims to be the first full-stack digital bank for SMEs that are excluded from the formal financial ecosystem.

Prior to setting up Progcap, Pallavi worked at the International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group) where she led IFC’s South Asia inclusive business investments program. She has over 15 years of experience in SME financing, investing, and consulting across India, South Asia, and Africa.

Pallavi has received numerous awards, including “Entrepreneur of the Year” at the Entrepreneur Awards 2022, “Start-up Women Entrepreneur” and “Fintech Women Entrepreneur of the Year” at the BW Women Entrepreneur Awards 2022. She was also honoured as “Women Leader in Fintech” at IFTA 2022 and recognised as one of the 50 most impactful global social innovators.

She is an engineering graduate and holds an MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur.