Abhishek is a Co-founder at Whrrl and was a Product Owner for the service product at Policybazaar.com (an Indian unicorn insurance aggregator). A 3x Entrepreneur and a 2x Author, he has been in Blockchain for about 4.5 years. At Whrrl, he’s building India’s first Agri-Fintech Blockchain platform that can save 25-40% of farmers’ income, and protect banks from millions in very regular frauds in the segment of Warehouse Receipt Finance. This integrated mega-platform is currently deployed across 5 states in India. Whrrl has been incubated at IIM Ahmedabad, University of Toronto’s CDL, Chiratae Innovators’ Program, TheGAIN in collaboration with MeiTy, GUSEC et. al. Whrrl has constantly received recognition in Centralized and Decentralized Finance from the likes of FICCI, Indian Banks Association, Binance, ETHDenver etc.

Abhishek has been an Advisor to several startups such as eSports.com (who raised 5.8 Million EUR in their ICO), Vayla, Blockchain Advisory Council, NafCoin et. al. His second book (Secure Chains: Cybersecurity and Blockchain-powered Automation) has been published by BPB Publications – Asia’s Largest Publisher of IT Books, and two books by Springer and Taylor & Francis are coming up in 2021. He is a regular speaker in blockchain and has given 2-day workshops in universities, in an attempt to show students the importance of choosing blockchain as a career path. Apart from that, he has taken lectures in blockchain for 7,000+ faculty, PhDs, and students worldwide. He’s an Educator with ODEM, and a visiting faculty with Amity’s Post Graduate Program in Blockchain Technology and Management. He has also advised the Certified Blockchain Professional (CBP) Course by EC-Council that’s present across 145 countries. Lastly, he was nominated for the “Top 50 Tech Leaders” award by InterCon Dubai. He had been invited as a Speaker at one of Europe’s biggest Blockchain conferences – Decentralized 2019 in Athens, Greece; as a Speaker at The Blockchain World Forum in Shenzhen, China; and as a Panellist/Speaker with a nomination for Best Crypto Educator in GURUS Awards by Next Block Asia 2.0 in Bangkok, Thailand last year; as a panellist/judge at Govt. of India’s program for startups at IIM Kashipur; and, as a Speaker at the European Digital Week and Global Technology Summit, 2020. He recently delivered talks at SmartCon ’22 in New York, DEVCON in Bogota, cNFTCon ’22 in Vegas, and CITC Conference by Ministry of Communication and IT in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Whrrl is a blockchain-based agri-lending business that helps small farmers, traders and producers access working capital by collateralizing products in warehouses. The platform is used in over 1,400 warehouses in five states in India. Whrrl has over $600 million commodities tokenized on the blockchain and over $6 million of digital loans issued to farmers and agri-businesses, creating an impact in the lives of more than 18,000 smallholder and marginal farmers.