birth_place parents birth_date article_title education name occupation
tokyo , japan yogeshwar varma 14 january 1984 aneesh varma
 lehigh university aneesh varma entrepreneur
aneesh varma

aneesh varma is a london-based serial entrepreneur and angel investor .
he is best known as the founder of aire - a fintech startup building an alternative credit score for consumers who have no existing credit data -lrb- also known as thin-file consumers -rrb- .
he also previously co-founded fabriqate , an international mobile technology company which went on to be an hsbc startup star 2008 & 2009 , lda kc award 2009 , british council yce in 2009 and cf500 in 2010 .
varma has been a vocal campaigner for financial inclusion .
he was educated at lehigh university , usa studying engineering and a second degree in quantitative finance .
he was recognised by the european commission as one of 12 entrepreneur of the year nominees in 2014 and by the british council as a young entrepreneur 2009 in the technology sector .
varma started his first business at 16 and was involved with startups in his university days .
at age 21 he was hired into jpmorgan in new york working on m&a transactions for financial technology industry including visa , synovus , jaguar & tata .
