San Francisco, April 16th, 2024 – Gigs, the world’s first telecom-as-a-service platform, today announced that Rishi Sachdeva has joined the company as Head of Fintech. Sachdeva joins Gigs after six years at Stripe, where he served in various partnerships and business development leadership roles, most recently as Head of GTM Partnerships. During his tenure, Sachdeva managed partnerships with category defining companies including Shopify, Plaid, Meta, Apple, Lightspeed and Xero.
Based in San Francisco, Sachdeva will lead Gigs’ strategy and growth in the fintech sector, overseeing key partnerships at a time of significant momentum for the company. His appointment follows the promotion of Rafa Plantier, who previously led Fintech and will now serve as Head of Go-to-Market for the organization.
“Rishi’s deep industry expertise will prove invaluable for Gigs as an increasing number of leading fintechs seek to offer embedded connectivity and branded phone plans to their customers,” said Hermann Frank, co-founder and CEO of Gigs. “In recent months, we’ve seen a surge of interest from pioneering companies in the space, and Rishi’s knowledge and networks will enable us to further capitalize on this exciting momentum as we partner with the world’s top fintechs to strengthen their offerings and unlock new streams of revenue.”
Sachdeva’s leap to Gigs marks a significant trend in top-tier fintech talent joining the company. Industry veterans from the likes of Stripe, Adyen, Paypal, Revolut, and Klarna have joined Gigs in various leadership capacities, including: Steven van Bommel (Head of Finance, ex-Adyen), April Popescu (Head of Telecom, ex-Stripe), and Rafa Plantier (Head of GTM, ex-Nubank, Stripe).
“In many respects, the talent and energy within Gigs today is reminiscent of the early days of Stripe,” said Rishi Sachdeva. “When I first met the team, it was immediately clear that they have the unshakable focus and customer obsession needed to abstract away the complexities of telecom, and bring to market an elegant solution that enables ambitious technology companies to embed connectivity.”
This is how Gigs works
With Gigs, businesses can seamlessly launch branded wireless services and integrate them into their existing product portfolios, creating new product experiences for users while retaining full control over their brand and customer journey. From fintechs providing branded phone plans alongside their payment cards to retailers offering subscriptions bundled with their mobile devices, or even HR platforms enabling businesses to issue employee phone plans with just a tap, Gigs empowers innovators from various industries.
Before Gigs, companies wanting to offer phone plans faced months of tedious negotiations and integrations with network operators and multiple legacy third-party services. In addition, they had to commit millions of dollars upfront and spend valuable time navigating the archaic patchwork of software components needed to run their wireless service—resulting in a complicated and poor end-user experience. In the absence of a seamless, fast, and intelligent connectivity platform, the high barriers to entry to the world of telecommunications made it prohibitively expensive for entrants to launch a state-of-the-art wireless service and unlock recurring revenue streams, stifling innovation at a moment when connectivity is more important than ever.
Gigs is the only end-to-end connectivity operating system that offers everything companies need to launch and run a fully-featured wireless service on carrier networks across the globe through a single integration. From the best-in-class telecom API, a hosted end-user checkout optimized for maximum conversion, its own payments suite, a powerful dashboard including AI-enhanced customer support, and detailed business analytics to entire marketing solutions, Gigs provides everything customers need to launch their wireless service and provide a superior end-user experience.
About Gigs
Gigs is the world’s first telecom-as-a-service platform. By enabling any company to launch its own wireless service, Gigs helps its customers differentiate their product offering, increase customer stickiness and unlock new revenue streams through embedded connectivity. As the only end-to-end connectivity provider, Gigs offers a broad set of products and services, including premium wholesale, a hosted checkout, subscription management, payments, analytics, AI, and more. The company is backed by Google’s Gradient Ventures, Y Combinator, and prominent business angels and investors like Dara Khosrowshahi (CEO of Uber), Tony Xu (Co-founder & CEO of DoorDash), and Fidji Simo (CEO of Instacart). The company was founded by Hermann Frank and Dennis Bauer in 2020 and currently employs over 70 people in the US and Europe. For more information, please visit: gigs.com.
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