CardByte - A Product of Scientia Solutions

Bringing together human ingenuity and digital agility

The co-founders of CardByte come from an enterprise background. During their previous stints in the industry, they realised how unorganized the professional sector is when it comes to contact storage and management. With the digital boom in the late 2000s and India alone accounting for 600 million smartphone users, it is hard to believe that paper business cards remain the prevalent method for professionals to network and exchange contact information with their peers.

CardByte is India’s 1st end-to-end contact management & networking app that helps you store contacts & network seamlessly. Our vision is to transform how the new-age professional networks.

Navinn Kapur, The Business Alchemist

Alok Jain, Chief Product Officer

Dhruv Kapur, Product Owner

The Business Alchemist - Navinn Kapur

Founder & Director

Mr. Navinn Kapur is a first-generation entrepreneur & the Co-Founder of CardByte- India’s 1 st digital contact management & networking platform. He comes with a rich industry experience of 28+ years and has successfully implemented business strategies motivating highly galvanized teams to produce significant shareholder values. Prior to CardByte, Mr. Kapur has been the Co-Founder of Iris Unified Technology- a software integrator company based out of India. In 2011, he entered a joint venture with a Global LSP- Comparex AG & was instrumental in the domestic & global growth of the venture, driving the business revenues to USD 100 million in just 5 years.

During these previous stints as an entrepreneur & business leader, he realized how highly unorganized the professional sector was when it came to contact storage & management with paper business cards still being a prevalent method of business networking. Businesses & professionals were struggling with organizing and utilizing the vast data sets that they dealt with on an everyday basis. This not only resulted in poor cost & time efficiency, but also the loss of important business data. With an aim to solve these challenges, Mr. Kapur launched the AI-powered CardByte platform in 2020.

Mr. Kapur has been named as Top 100 Greatest Leaders, India (2018-2019) by Consumers & industry, Asia One, United Research Services, Asia Business & Social Forum. He was also featured as the Most Impactful Tech Leaders 2018 by VAR news and has been featured in magazines such as Silicon India, VAR Channels, CIO Review etc. as a business leader & entrepreneur. Mr. Kapur is a problem solver & is highly passionate about creating meaningful value for businesses, products, and individuals.

The Tech Strategist

Alok Jain, Chief Product Officer

Alok is a chief product officer with CardByte, he brings in comprehensive product strategy, future proof architectures and tech-savvy solutions with new-age technologies.

He is a resourceful big-picture thinker who achieves business objectives through technical leadership and ensures services deliverables for benefits realization in a diversified environment while managing business engagement, development, and delivery operations.

Solutioning and Architecting Business Applications, Products and large IT Programs in Information Strategy, Advanced Analytics, Big Intelligence, Digital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence.

He gives high importance to collaborations, cohesive working, and open culture to ensure the team enjoys working along with being result-oriented.

He is a staunch believer in mutual growth and thus respects and leverages human capital, motivates and mentors young talented professionals while paving his path to growth.

His 16+ years of experience with his tech-savvy approach has led to a hallmarked career manifested by horizontal & vertical movement in the career ladder with a proven track record of successful deliveries of large programs, transformations, and modernizations multi-million, multi-year IT initiatives.

Before joining CardByte, He spent time in various geographies like the USA, Europe, Africa lending his expertise to fortune 500 companies such as Daimler, Schlumberger, NOV, Canon, Nestle, Xilinx, Honeywell, USG, Chesapeake, Intergraph, KPN etc. in various aspects including but not limited to high-value planning, digital transformation strategy and roadmap, architecting and designing complex IT landscapes, building high performing teams, creating innovative platforms, while building capabilities centers for his employers such as Deloitte, TCS, TEK Systems, Perficient.

Networking, Nurturing, Navigating

Dhruv Kapur, Product Owner

Dhruv is a member of the founding team and the Product Owner at CardByte. His role encompasses him to contribute to the company's product strategy and product organisation, including product management, design, and user research.

At CardByte, Dhruv is dedicated to creating a product that helps users to build and manage their network effortlessly. His enthusiasm for involvement in every aspect of the business and passion for entrepreneurship rooted him in CardByte.

He has pursued his graduation in B-Tech in Electrical Engineering from VIT, Vellore and M.S in Computer Engineering from The Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA.

With a rich experience in the sector, he has lent his expertise to various names including Deloitte Consulting and Capgemini. Advised Fortune 500 clients in departments such as Consulting, AI, Data Science (both in India and the US) etc., and helped his clients and companies with their digital transformation.