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Zoho Pay is currently undergoing internal testing and will be gradually rolled out across India over the coming months, said media reports. 

Vembu said that a systemic event like the global financial crisis of 2008-9 cannot be ruled out.  

India’s top bootstrapped companies showcase the nation’s entrepreneurial strength across diverse sectors. From the National Stock Exchange’s Rs 5 lakh crore valuation to Serum Institute’s global vaccine dominance and Zoho’s SaaS innovation, each exemplifies sustainable growth without external funding. Firms like Zerodha, MEIL, Parle Products, and Amalgamations Group highlight how financial discipline, innovation, and legacy can drive massive valuations, positioning India as a global powerhouse in self-funded enterprise success.  

Zoho Success Story: Sridhar Vembu’s story is truly inspiring. He left a well-paying job in the United States and returned to a small village in Tamil Nadu with one big dream: to build a global tech company without taking any outside money. At first, people did not believe it was possible. But today, his company Zoho has proved them wrong. Its messaging app Arattai, which means “chat” in Tamil, has suddenly become very popular and emerged as a rival to WhatsApp. In just three days, the app’s daily sign-ups increased 100 times. Promoted as a “spyware-free, made-in-India messenger,” Arattai is now seen as a strong challenger to WhatsApp, winning people’s trust with its privacy and local roots.

Co-founder Sridhar Vembu said the company is preparing for another potential 100x surge as new features and campaigns, originally planned for November, are rolled out earlier. 

India’s 'Swadeshi' App: It supports multiple devices, including desktop and even Android TV, making it more versatile

Zoho Co-founder Sridhar Vembu said he did not have that confidence in the tech so the board decided to shelve this idea for the time being, “until we find a better tech approach”.

In 1996, Vembu founded a software development house for network equipment providers called AdventNet, which was renamed Zoho Corporation in 2009, focusing on providing SaaS support to customer relationship management services.

Radha Vembu, along with her brother Sridhar Vembu, started Zoho, a company that makes software for businesses. Zoho is known for its cloud-based applications that help companies with things like managing their customer relationships, handling emails, and lots of other stuff.

The growth comes on the heels of the company reaching $1 billion in annual revenue last year.

The most intelligent unknown Indian entrepreneur who has a huge fan base in the start-up business, mostly because he refused venture capital funding.

The browser has been built specifically to secure personal data that universally block tracking and website surveillance. 

In contrast to my professional life, "my personal life has been a lengthy tragedy," Vembu stated.

In August 2021, Sridhar filed for divorce in California.

Zoho Corp Co-founder and CEO Sridhar Vembu said while the scale of US and Europe contribution to the company's overall business is higher, India business is growing very fast and it could be the largest market for the company in 10 years.

The global macro-economic conditions have hit the stock markets worldwide. Startups are also not immune to those factors. Vembu was mentioned by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his `Mann Ki Baat` programme on Sunday.

Zoho Corp’s founder Sridhar Vembu has been awarded Padma Shri Vembu was born in a small city in the Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu Zoho, a SaaS platform boasts 60 million users worldwide and 50 integrated online applications