Innovation , disruption , and driving change are part of Volante ’ s DNA , says CEO Vijay Oddiraju
VOLANTE TECHNOLOGIES
Innovation , disruption , and driving change are part of Volante ’ s DNA , says CEO Vijay Oddiraju
Now one of the world ’ s leading payment technology companies , Volante launched in 2001 , at a time when the US – and , indeed , the world – was still reeling from the aftershocks of 9 / 11 . The dot com crash had only taken place six months prior , too , and the markets were understandably awash with uncertainty .
It takes a special kind of optimism to launch a disruptive startup in such circumstances , but that was exactly the challenge faced by Vijay Oddiraju , the man that co-founded Volante Technologies in Silicon Valley with two like-minded entrepreneurs , Venkat Malla and Uday Thakur , with a small office and some big ideas .
“ Our whole idea was to help financial institutions accelerate and ease the development of financial applications . I knew it was something very different , and I also knew it would be very helpful to the business marketplace ,” he says . Conversely , launching that initial operation didn ’ t present the challenges Oddiraju would have expected : from the very start , doors opened . Even setting up that first office in Palo Alto , California , seemed almost too easy .
He says : “ Starting the company at such a point was very interesting because of two things . Firstly , the whole environment was very gloomy and lots of companies had shut
Vijay Oddiraju CEO , Volante Technologies
50 April 2023