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Upstox, Acko, Urban Company, Licious & more; Critical Tech Leadership Searches Mark Purple Quarter’s Eventful Headhunt in 2021

BANGALORE, India, Dec. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Businesses in 2021 were dealing with the aftermath of Coronavirus, which required cutting-edge technologies to scale, disrupt and establish a foothold in the new normal, leading to an increased demand for technologists. Keeping up with this pulse, Purple Quarter successfully closed 27 stellar Tech Head positions.
There has been a flood of unicorns in Indian startups this year, and as of the first week of December, 42 Indian companies reached a valuation of $1 billion and more. Purple Quarter played a crucial role in finding several tech leaders for unicorns like Acko, Upstox, Licious, Urban Company, and Zeta. In addition to working with unicorns, Purple Quarter forged valuable partnerships with RBIH, Rupeek, Shadowfax, Suki, Hopscotch, Stanza Living, Avataar.Me, Hubilo, and many more this year.
The bespoke CTO search firm impressively closed eight CTO/CPTO positions in 2021. Purple Quarter partnered with Upstox, one of the leading online investment platforms in the country, to find its CTO. Upstox sought a seasoned techie with experience working across global teams and the firm successfully orchestrated veteran Thippesha Dyamappa’s move to the startup. Thippesha, erstwhile, was based at Amazon’s Chicago office for more than a decade.
India’s first D2C unicorn, Licious, trusted Purple Quarter to find their CPTO, Himanshu Verma. Taking on the role in July, the ex-Amazon engineer was a great match for Licious’ Product and Engineering teams. Likewise, companies like Maatrum, Progcap, Stanza Living, Setu, Reserve Bank Innovation Hub (RBIH) and Pratilipi found their Chief Technology / Chief Product & Technology officers with the help of Purple Quarter. The tech-head search firm’s unique and proven end-to-end search process enabled these innovative companies to locate the right leaders to lead their respective technology teams.
Beyond CTO, Purple Quarter helped Urban Company, Shadowfax, Avataar.me, Dhani Stocks, and Zeta close their VP of Engineering roles. The firm found a suitable SVP of Engineering for Acko and Hubilo. The Head of Engineering positions for Helpshift, Baazi Games and Zolve, a Bangalore-based fintech company, were closed in the first two quarters. Purple Quarter supported the growing tech teams at Suki, Licious and Rupeek by closing crucial positions of Senior Director of Engineering, Directors of Engineering and the Chief Architect.
Continued partnerships with valuable companies solidified Purple Quarter’s position as the trusted search partner. Urban Company, Hopscotch, Licious, engaged with Purple Quarter for numerous tech leadership mandates this year. The specialised search firm closed three tech heads for Licious; two VP of Engineering for Urban Company, and Mumbai-headquartered e-commerce player, Hopscotch, onboarded two tech leaders including the Senior Director of Engineering. Newly minted insurtech unicorn, Acko, post onboarding its CTPO last year, further expanded its engineering team with the appointment of Amol Wanjari as the SVP of Engineering role in 2021; courtesy Purple Quarter.
As a tech headhunting specialist, Purple Quarter has extensive experience in locating tech leaders across industries by analysing business models closely. This year too, the firm worked with a diverse clientele across verticals shaping the Indian startup ecosystem, from FinTech, SaaS, Real Estate, FoodTech, Logistics and Supply Chain, Home Services, InsurTech, HealthTech, Gaming, eCommerce to HRTech. Purple Quarter’s team of seasoned tech-head search experts has timely identified leaders across industry segments and ensured a smooth transition for these high-value roles through an end-to-end streamlined process.
Find more on our notable closures: https://purplequarter.com/newsroom/  
About Purple Quarter
Purple Quarter is a Bespoke CTO Search firm based out of Bangalore. In over four years, the firm has mapped over 10,000+ leaders across the globe. The singular approach to tech leadership search has given Purple Quarter a detailed acumen into the Tech Leadership hiring space, especially in the startup ecosystem. Our robust clientele includes corporates, early-stage to mature startups such as Swiggy, Acko, PharmEasy, hike, Urban Company, Upstox, Licious, RBIH, Zeta and many more.
For Tech Leadership requirements, write to us at interact@purplequarter.com or visit: https://purplequarter.com/
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Vikram Vedha to open its advance bookings in 1250 multiplexes from 24th September

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Undoubtedly Vikram Vedha is one of the most anticipated movies of the year and the craze for the film
among the audience is constantly rising as the film is inching toward its release date. Putting an end to
the audience’s wait, the makers are all set to start the advance bookings of the film today.

Moreover, Vikram Vedha will have the largest international distribution for a Hindi film, with a record-
breaking 100+ countries worldwide. Before its release, the film has sparked worldwide interest and
appeal, and many countries have already begun advance bookings.

Vikram Vedha is presented by Gulshan Kumar, T-Series, and Reliance Entertainment in association with
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Three times National Film Awards and the Padma Shri winning actor Manoj Bajpayee who has completed three decades in the showbiz business and Juggling with multiple projects between different genres, characters and mediums. Manoj Bajpayee is a powerhouse actor when it comes to Indian cinema. Even if you haven’t seen many of his movies, you will have heard of talented actor Manoj Bajpayee’s name because of his brilliant performances in his films. The finest actor has become synonymous with content-driven subjects who also have been consistently working in multiple film industries.

The finest actor of Hindi cinema Manoj Bajpayee who has several movies lined up this year, will be taking 1 week off from his current project, which is directed by Apurva(Aspirant fame & produced by Vinod Bhanushali in mid september and will be leaving for his home town with his wife and daughter to attend all the puja rituals on his father’s 1st death anniversary day. Manoj Bajpayee’s father RK Bajpayee passed away at 83, last year in Delhi.

The actor believes that a family is a very important & priority in his life, in spite of his erratic schedules or no matter where he is, it is his first priority to always be with his family with all his support & spend time with them in any situations.After finishing all the rituals puja and family work,Manoj will immediately resume his shoot to finish his project on time without taking any time for himself.

Manoj Bajpayee has recently finished his 3 upcoming projects, one with Ram Reddy’s untitled film, which also has talented actor Deepika Dobriyal in the film. After that he finished RSVP’s Despatch, (A investigative thriller set in the world of crime journalism.) directed by Kanu Behl. Abhishek Chaubeys’s film which also has star cast like Konkana Sen, Sayaji Shinde,Naseer sir and some well known talented actors from south. Fox Stars Studios,Chalkboard Entertainment, Autonomous Works film, Gulmohar directed by Rahul Chittella ( who was assistant of Meena Nair) working with Veteran actress Sharmila Tagore, and Amol Palekar along with Suraj Sharma (Life of Pi) and Simran Rishi Bagga in pivotal roles.

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Here comes the title of Jackky Bhagnani’s Jjust Music upcoming RVD’s soulful creation ‘Raaz’

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The song captures a glimpse of feelings that brings a boy close to the emotions of his lover encapsulating his zest for involving her in his life a secret that will stay with him for life. Jotting down his deepest emotions learn from his life, RVD beautifully communicates through his art in music a feeling of true happiness that can only be appreciated and enjoyed in privacy as the unconditional bond they share is completely sacred which the world won’t understand as they’re not in our shoes. 

Moreover, the artist in a true sense, RVD is an artist who’s been given all the love by the world but battles and deals with his own loneliness by making music, he talks about how he has learned ‘you can’t be lonely if you’re comfortable being alone’ in the process, and through only music, he can express these thoughts. He is an artist who makes modernized music with a blend of cultural touches in Urdu and Punjabi languages, which makes him stand out from the general crowd.

RVD, is an Indie rap artist from Kolkata, West Bengal who’s been making much sound on the east side. Performed alongside pan India artists like Mohit Chauhan, Dino James, Zareen, Kayan, Gully Gang, etc. With tracks like ‘Riha’ and ‘Iteyhaas’ which have done extremely well, RVD has even caught a lot of attention and traction in the general crowd and the gaming world on a pan-India basis.

Meanwhile, Jjust Music made it to the headlines for it’s first PAN India music video Mashooka starring bold and quirky Rakul Preet. The song turned out to be a huge success and was received well by the audience.

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