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AFSAL SALU

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Afsal co founded Delyver.com, India's first hyperlocal on-demand marketplace in 2010, much before the words 'hyperlocal' and 'marketplace' became common parlance in Indian startup community. Scaled it up to 1000+ merchants in Bangalore across multiple categories and executed 4Lac+ deliveries to customers. Delyver got acquired by BigBasket.com, India's largest e-grocer, in 2015.Post acquisition, Afsal built the Express Delivery business for BigBasket from scratch to 2nd largest BU within 7 months. Express Delivery is a new offering from BigBasket which provides the convenience of ordering daily essentials and top-ups and getting them delivered within 90 mins. Currently, Express bikers deliver ~48% of all shipments within BigBasket for T1 cities, showing the quick pace of adoption meanwhile bringing in tremendous cost benefits in last-mile cost optimisation for the firm.After a successful stint in Retail, Afsal is onto his 2nd venture - BestDoc , an intelligent Patient Relationship Management (PRM) for Hospitals. BestDoc is aiming to save not only time for patients and providers but also improving lifetimes.Afsal is passionate about creating new products and building execution-ready teams. He is also an Angel Investor and his investments include BabyGoGo (Parenting and Babycare App for Mothers) , Hansel.io (Real Time MobileApp Crash Analytics) , Unity Living (Cloud software for Apartment Society Management) and Pikkol (Relocation services Platform).