
While Most Startups Are Building Apps, Two 25-Year-Olds in India Are Rebuilding the Machinery That Runs Global Finance
Jul 29, 2025
SMPL
New Delhi [India], July 29: Upon looking for interesting ideas budding in India, we came across a company, In a startup ecosystem dominated by consumer tech and incremental innovation, two young Indian founders are quietly building something far more foundational. A platform that could reshape how large enterprises execute and control their most critical operations.
Their company, Aonami, is emerging as one of the most compelling early-stage infrastructure startups in the region. It doesn't promise to automate a single function. It offers a way to orchestrate work itself. From manual tasks and APIs to human approvals and AI decisions, Aonami's platform brings operational control back into one intelligent, unified layer.
At the helm are Jayesh Rout and Pratik Kumar, both 25, with a track record that belies their age. The two have been a part of this industry, and have learnt from the challenges they have seen firsthand.
At an age where many prioritize stability, comfort, or career acceleration, Jayesh and Pratik chose something else. They stepped away from proven paths to build the kind of system they wished they had. A leap of ambition over convenience, something our youth needs to do way more compared to today.
Aonami is being talked about not just for what it's building, but for how and where it's being built. In an industry where foundational enterprise platforms are often born in the West, Aonami is taking shape in India. It is led by two young founders with hands-on experience in real financial trenches.
But there's more to it.
Much of the attention surrounding Aonami reflects something bigger. The growing boldness and ambition of a new India, especially in technology. No longer limited to execution or outsourcing, Indian founders are now defining entirely new categories of enterprise software. Jayesh and Pratik represent that shift. A generation not afraid to take on deeply technical problems and reimagine what global infrastructure can look like.
As banks race to modernize under tighter compliance rules and real-time customer expectations, Aonami is stepping in with the missing layer of control. It's more than a promising startup. it's execution can make it a gold standard for faster and cleaner launches of business verticals.
"The future of enterprise execution needs to feel like flying a modern cockpit. Intelligent, responsive, and deeply aware," says co-founder Jayesh Rout, who leads product, and strategy, at Aonami. It's this belief that he says will be transformational for the way people work.
Pratik Kumar, who drives business, operations and strategy, complements that vision with strong go-to-market instinct and operational discipline. He is widely regarded by peers as a founder who can take complex, technical narratives and translate them into sharp value for enterprise buyers.
BFSI Is Just the Start
The company is currently focused on BFSI, where the need for operational clarity is highest and the tolerance for error is lowest. But observers note that Aonami's architecture could naturally extend to other complex industries like healthcare, logistics, or compliance-heavy tech.
One founder in the space commented, "If they get banking right, this will become the execution fabric for every ops-heavy enterprise."
What Makes Aonami Stand Out
- Powerful orchestration -- APIs, AI, and humans in sync
- Real-time control -- SLAs, alerts, and overrides in one layer
- Process-specific depth -- owing to industry first approach and tailored to fit with promise of launching in record times
- Developer-first design -- Modular, programmable, and enterprise-ready
Early engagements are already delivering measurable reductions in operational delays, engineering overhead, and coordination chaos.
A Signal of What's Coming
That something this foundational is being built by two 25-year-old founders in India is a signal in itself.
Jayesh and Pratik aren't building another tool or dashboard. They're rebuilding the invisible machinery that powers how large organizations operate. And they're doing it with a quiet confidence that's beginning to draw attention from BFSI leaders, early customers, and global investors alike.
Aonami is still early. But what's clear is this. The next generation of infrastructure won't just be global. It will be shaped by young builders like Jayesh and Pratik who've seen the cracks up close and are bold enough to reimagine what sits beneath it all.
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