Movin Jain

Movin Jain is the co-founder of Skydo, a Bengaluru/San Francisco cross-border B2B payments fintech. An IIT Delhi computer science graduate and IIM Ahmedabad MBA, he began his career in fixed income at Barclays Investment Bank in London before returning to India into senior product roles at InMobi, Ola, PhonePe and Meesho. He co-founded Skydo in 2022; the company has raised an Elevation Capital-led seed and a Susquehanna Asia VC-led $10M Series A.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Movin Jain held a real full-time role in quantitative-finance-adjacent fixed income at Barclays Investment Bank (formerly Barclays Capital) in London after his IIM-A MBA; in his own account he calls it his 'fixed income trading job at Barclays London'. The employer is a global investment bank whose fixed income division runs trading/markets and financing (repo, collateral, funding) desks, so it classifies as a bank quant-finance/markets employer. A separate on-campus 'hedge fund job' offer was declined and is not a role. Identity is supported: the TechInAsia piece is self-authored and cross-links his IIT Delhi/IIM-A background and London Barclays tenure, matching the LinkedIn profile.May 10, 2016
• Co-founder and (per company blog byline) author at Skydo, a cross-border B2B payments fintech; Skydo publicly describes itself as built for Indian exporters/MSMEs challenging PayPal and Stripe on fees.Dec 9, 2025
• As of a July 2026 BW Disrupt interview he is still Co-founder of Skydo and frames the opportunity as B2B cross-border payments and financial infrastructure rather than consumer products, drawing on his PhonePe experience.Jul 2, 2026
• Skydo raised a seed round led by Elevation Capital (reported Jun 2022) and later a $10M Series A led by Susquehanna Asia VC - a Susquehanna (quant trading firm) venture arm as lead investor is notable given his own fixed income trading background.Jun 28, 2022
• Career trajectory: IIT Delhi CS undergrad (2005-2009) -> IIM Ahmedabad MBA (2009-2011) -> Barclays Investment Bank fixed income, London (2011-2013) -> back to India into product roles - shows a deliberate return from banking to technology product management as the pivot point of his career.May 10, 2016
• Listed on the LinkedIn profile as 'Assistant Vice President, Fixed Income Financing' at Barclays Investment Bank (Aug 2011-Sep 2013) and 'Summer Associate' at Barclays Capital (Apr-Jun 2010), per the caller's index lead (taiga-32207758) - INDEX-ONLY until independently confirmed; his own 2016 essay independently confirms a fixed income trading role at Barclays London.Sep 2013
• Declined a campus hedge-fund job because the role was back-office - so no hedge-fund role was actually held; the hedge-fund connection is an offer, not employment.May 10, 2016
• Skydo by mid-2026 had scaled to a ~170-person team, a hiring/traction signal.2026
• Started his professional journey at Barclays Investment Bank, then built product-strategy expertise at InMobi, Ola and PhonePe before co-founding Skydo - the company's own author bio names these three product tenures.2024
• Served as VP Product at Meesho (profiled by Meesho Tech, Nov 2019) and earlier as Director/Senior Director of Product at PhonePe - consistent senior product leadership at Indian consumer-scale startups.Nov 15, 2019
• Authored a long-form personal essay on TechInAsia (May 2016) explaining his move from fixed income trading back to technology; it is the single richest first-person source on his early career and education.May 10, 2016
• Barclays tenure included 'a couple of short stints with them in Singapore and New York' before the London full-time role - i.e. prior Barclays internships in Singapore and NY preceded the London job.May 10, 2016