Bengaluru-based identification and entry administration startup OTPless has appointed former BharatPe know-how government and Genwise co-founder Geetanshu Singla as its CTO, because the startup expands its authentication and fraud prevention providers.

In his new function, Singla will present leadership throughout engineering, product improvement, platform structure, reliability and safety at OTPless.

His duties will cowl merchandise together with Silent Community Authentication, WhatsApp authentication, gadget intelligence and passkeys, that are designed to assist companies confirm customers and scale back their reliance on conventional SMS-based one-time passwords (OTPs).

Singla beforehand served as Vice President of Know-how at BharatPe, the place he labored carefully with OTPless co-founders Satyam Nathani and Tanmay Sagar throughout the fintech firm’s early development.

He later co-founded Genwise, a life-style know-how startup targeted on senior residents, which ceased operations in December 2025.

Commenting on his appointment in a LinkedIn publish, Singla mentioned he had labored carefully with Nathani and Sagar at BharatPe and considered his new function as a return to working with former colleagues.

“In some ways, it looks like coming again residence,” he wrote.

Singla additionally highlighted OTPless’s enlargement past OTP authentication in the direction of a broader identification and belief infrastructure for web companies.

OTPless undergoes management modifications

Singla’s appointment follows a sequence of modifications to OTPless’s senior administration.

On 18 September 2026, the corporate elevated co-founder Satyam Nathani to CEO and Tanmay Sagar to COO, following Bhavik Koladiya’s determination to step down as CEO.

The startup subsequently appointed Manas Poddar, one among its early group members, as CBO on 1 October. Poddar is accountable for income, enterprise gross sales and strategic partnerships.

In a LinkedIn publish, Sagar mentioned dependable authentication was notably vital for big shopper web platforms, the place delays or failures throughout login may have an effect on buyer retention.

“A failed or sluggish authentication is a misplaced buyer, in order that they want know-how they’ll depend on at any scale, on any day. Geetanshu has constructed and run know-how at unicorn scale, and his becoming a member of strengthens the technical belief our clients place in us,” Sagar wrote.

OTPless offers authentication and identification infrastructure to shopper web firms by way of software program improvement kits (SDKs) and software programming interfaces (APIs).

Its know-how permits companies to confirm customers by way of network-based authentication, messaging platforms, gadget info and passkeys, providing alternate options to traditional password and SMS-based login programs.

In keeping with the startup, it authenticates greater than 300 million customers throughout shopper platforms, together with Meesho, Zepto, Navi, PhysicsWallah, ShareChat, Shiprocket and ixigo.