Rishabh Gupta

Founding Product Manager | Growth Operator | 0-to-1 marketplaces and SMB fintech across EU, MENA and Africa

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About

Most of the last decade, I have built commerce and fintech products in markets where the basics do not work yet. In Dubai, I was a founding PM at souKare, the Middle East's first digital pharmacy, taking it from an idea to three countries. In Nigeria, I built Alerzoshop into the country's leading B2B marketplace, then ran the wallet, bill payment, and POS stack that tens of thousands of shopkeepers used to get paid. Now I am at Partao in Luxembourg, building Europe's largest marketplace for agricultural and construction parts. Five million SKUs and climbing. The through line is the unglamorous half of commerce. Catalogues nobody wants to clean. Fitment data that decides whether a part actually fits the machine. Credit for a shop owner with no formal financial history. KYC that has to be fast and still catch fraud. Get those right and growth follows. Skip them, and no amount of paid acquisition saves you. What I do: Marketplaces and B2B commerce. Built two from zero, in two very different regions. Fintech for small businesses. Wallets, bill payments, POS, stock financing, KYC and risk scoring. Growth as a discipline, not a department. Five years as founding growth marketer at Vestaboard ran alongside my product work, which is why I read a funnel before I read a roadmap. Data and instrumentation. SQL, GA4, Mixpanel, Pendo. I build the dashboard before I ask for headcount. I have delivered 4,000+ mentoring calls to product and Founder's Office students at Masters' Union and Tetr, where I'm the top-rated mentor on their platform, and I advise emerging-market founders with Techstars and Next Billion Advisors. Teaching is a good way to find out what you don't actually understand. Based in India, working CET hours with Partao in Luxembourg. Set up for remote-first roles, no relocation required. Happy to talk marketplaces, messy catalogues, or what emerging markets teach you about trust.

Company history

  1. partaoFounding Product Manager2025-07 – present · 1y 1mo
  2. Next Billion AdvisorsProduct Strategist2022-01 – 2023-02 · 1y 1mo
  3. ActalinkInterim Product Lead2024-08 – 2024-11 · 3 mo
  4. Masters' UnionProduct Mentor2022-08 – present · 4y
  5. VestaboardFounding Growth Marketer2019-08 – 2024-12 · 5y 4mo
  6. TechstarsStartup Mentor2023-10 – 2024-01 · 3 mo
  7. upGradProduct Mentor2021-08 – 2023-02 · 1y 6mo
  8. AlerzoGroup Product Manager2022-12 – 2024-04 · 1y 4mo
  9. CredCoreGTM Engineer2023-03 – 2023-07 · 4 mo
  10. SeekhoProduct Mentor2022-04 – 2022-06 · 2 mo
  11. AlerzoSenior Product Manager2021-05 – 2022-12 · 1y 7mo

Skills

sqlProduct ManagementOnline MarketplaceProduct StrategyGrowth MarketingE-commerceMixpanelPaymentsMagentoProduct Road MappingProduct DesignMarketing StrategyGoogle AdsMedia BuyingStakeholder ManagementStart-upsTeam LeadershipMarketingEntrepreneurshipBusiness StrategySearch Engine Marketing (SEM)

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