Designing tools that help people; deliver and display, create
and communicate, explore and express.
Interpreting
technology to generate avenues that complement and augment
intuition is a must at VerSe.
Driven by purposeful curiosity and having taken the science of
content to its natural progression, we feel we have just
begun.
While artificial intelligence, deep learning, data may form the
itinerary, however, content fuelled by human ingenuity will
always lead the agenda.
The pursuit of thriving cultures, communities, people and
inspired faces is what makes us come to work.
VerSe - technologies for the collective human spirit.
VerSe was founded in the year 2007, as a pioneering expedition
in the consumer-facing internet business.
The organisation from its inception was heavily indented towards
the leading edge of technological development. It sought to
bridge the urban-rural digital divide in the country.
With a substantial footprint in the value-added service
ecosystem, VerSe broke new ground in the content and
entertainment domain.
This foray was augmented in large part owing to the company’s
heavy investment in Artificial Intelligence and Machine
Learning.
The efforts resulted in a proprietary technology that powers a
platform occupied by 300 million+ users to consume content in
their local language.
In continuation with its ability to gauge the pulse of the
nation, VerSe engaged its technological tool kit and the
brilliant minds that drive this technology to launch India’s
leading short video app - Josh, an app that has crossed over 100
million downloads.
Today, VerSe Innovation is a content technology platform company
and India’s first tech unicorn focused on local languages.
Our vision is a testimony of our work - An ecosystem that acts
as a bridge between human creative aspiration and the tools that
make it possible, an ecosystem that is built upon
paradigm-shifting technologies defining the 'new' in human
possibilities.
Our philosophy and the guiding principles that are imbibed
therein are something we take very seriously. While we are a
business organisation that seeks to add value, the process in
its spirit is underwritten using human capital.
We not only want to contribute but bring about real, measurable
changes in the lives of people we touch. And for us, that change
is digital empowerment.
We started with helping
people connect with content and seek information in a format and
language that is accessible to them. However, we understood that
real empowerment must also provide space for expression.
Therefore guided by our philosophy we have created a platform
that allows people from every nook and corner of the country to
express their ideas in a language they want to speak in, in a
language they want to be heard in - with exuberance, with Josh.
Virendra Gupta
Founder
A man of insightful disposition, Virendra Gupta looks beyond a
point where others digress.
This incisive nature coupled with the spirit of inquiry and
curiosity resulted in Viru terraforming the vernacular language
landscape in the country.
Virendra Gupta made career-defining moves early on in his
professional life. He was instrumental in introducing
value-added services in the mobile world along with launching
the first prepaid mobile services in the country.
He has held significant positions with operators such as BPL and
Bharti, however, his real calling was in the entrepreneurial
foray.
And as he answered the calling with paradigm-shifting ventures,
it enabled technology for vernacular language and the content
creation domains.
What remains the cornerstone in his journey is his humility to
listen, learn and allow a voice to a grateful team that has
excelled delivering billion-dollar businesses.
Virendra holds a master’s degree in Management from IIT Mumbai
and did his graduation in Electronics and Communication from MBM
Engineering College, Jodhpur.
Umang Bedi
Co-founder
Steering organisations to achieve scale defines Umang Bedi’s
leadership.
His tenure at Adobe was marked by the introduction of the cloud
paradigm. By the time his work was done at Facebook, India
emerged as the largest market for the platform.
Umang believes the most powerful way to achieve one's dream is
by helping others reach their goals.
Working with a team of driven, committed individuals to deliver
the creative aspirations of a billion people, he is now the
Co-founder of VerSe Innovation, India’s first tech unicorn
focussed on local languages.
A lifelong practitioner of cross-collaboration, he continues
discovering ways to harness the power of the human
collective.
An entrepreneurial business leader, Umang has previously served
as Managing Director at Facebook India, Adobe Inc., and Intuit
Inc., building and growing digital businesses in the region.
Umang is an alumnus of Harvard Business School and an
engineering graduate from the University of Pune.