Founder · GIX — Global Infrastructure Exchange

Every fall left a feather in my hat.

I'm Prathamesh Madye. A decade of building companies, trading the markets and working hands-on in trade finance has led me to one mission: building the data and credit infrastructure backbone of India.

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2016First company
2018Trading since
4Feathers earned
Prathamesh Madye, arms crossed, standing outdoors with hills behind him
Now building
GIX, India's credit infrastructure
Prathamesh Madye at his office desk

About me

Builder, trader, visionary.

I started in 2016 with electrical contracting for India's power majors. Since then I have built event, tourism and apparel ventures, launched a national edible-oil brand, and traded the markets every day since 2018. Since 2021 I have also worked hands-on in trade finance.

Every chapter, the big wins and the hard lessons, gave me a skill I now put into GIX.

Trade financeHands-on since 2021: credit, LCs and working capital
MarketsProfessional trader since 2018, mostly forex and gold
Brand strategyBuilding brands from launch to scale

The story

Ten years, four feathers.

Each gold feather marks a moment that made me stronger. Together they shape the way I build today.

Feather 1 · 2018–2020PatienceTwo years of learning the markets before the results followed. Feather 2 · 2020Self-relianceMy trading carried every company through the year the world paused. Feather 3 · 2022ResilienceA major site challenge absorbed, and the business kept building. Feather 4 · 2024–2025FaithA full reset, and a return with every skill and one burning idea.
2016

The first wire

I founded PPM United, an electrical contracting and consulting firm, working on projects for Tata Power and Reliance Power, and later Adani. The goal was clear from day one: build an esteemed organisation.

A young Prathamesh standing on an open highway
The road ahead, in the early PPM United years.
2018 – 2020

Learning the markets

After a long stretch of study, I started trading in 2018. The first two years were my real education. I kept studying, journaling and refining my edge until the results followed.

Feather 1 · Patience

Those two years built the skill that later carried every company I ran.

2018 – 2020

Many companies, all growing

I built PPM Event Pvt Ltd and ran the PEPL tournaments with partners like BookMyShow. PPM Explore, our tourism company, bloomed, and PPM Apparels grew alongside. Everything was booming.

Prathamesh with the PEPL tournament trophiesPrathamesh in the Himalayas in a snowsuit
PEPL trophies, PPM Event Pvt Ltd · On the road with PPM Explore.
2020

The world paused. We adapted.

In 2020 the world stopped, and events and travel stopped with it, including PPM Explore. My trading carried every company expense through that year. Building from scratch, we refocused on winning contracts one by one.

Feather 2 · Self-reliance

The skill I had patiently built kept every team member paid.

2021

Across states, into trade finance

We took the contracting business into multiple states across India, and I started working hands-on in trade finance: credit, letters of credit and working capital. The same year, an idea took hold of me: a Global Infrastructure Exchange.

Prathamesh beside his SUV on a misty ghat road
On the road between project sites.
2022

Standing taller

A major challenge at one of our project sites tested the business and my family. We absorbed it, learned from it and kept building.

Feather 3 · Resilience

Every challenge is a feather, once you rise with it.

2023

Agriall, launched with Patanjali

Using everything I had learned, I built Agriall and took it to a national launch with Patanjali. Within six months it was a tremendous success.

Prathamesh speaking at the Agriall product launch Prathamesh with guests
2024 – 2025

The reset

A demanding period for me and my family led us to pause every business, and the team moved on to new paths. I came back with every skill I had built, all the knowledge I had gathered, and one burning idea from 2021 that I had never stopped believing in.

Feather 4 · Faith

The idea I never doubted became the one I chose to build.

Today

GIX, built to last

The idea from 2021 is now my whole focus. GIX is standardising India's infrastructure data and building its credit backbone, and taking it global.

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Prathamesh Madye in a dark three-piece suit
Founder, GIX.

What I'm building now

GIX · Global Infrastructure Exchange

India is building roads, power, ports and cities at record pace, yet the data behind them is scattered and the credit that funds them moves slowly. GIX standardises infrastructure data and builds the credit rails on top of it, so every contractor, supplier and lender works from one trusted source.

GIX — Global Infrastructure Exchange logo
Building the credit infrastructure backbone of India
Building

Infrastructure data standard

One trusted record for every infrastructure project in India.

The gap
Work orders, bills, measurement books, progress reports and payment milestones sit in PDFs, emails and separate systems. Lenders cannot verify them quickly, so contractors and suppliers wait months for credit.
What we are building
A common data standard and a verified registry for projects, contractors, work orders, bills and payments, checked against source documents and kept up to date as work progresses.
Why it matters
When the data is trusted, credit becomes faster and cheaper for everyone building India's roads, power and cities.
Building

LC discounting marketplace

Turning letters of credit into same-week cash.

The gap
A supplier holding a letter of credit often waits 90 to 180 days to be paid. Discounting it today usually means approaching one bank at a time, with little visibility on rates.
What we are building
A marketplace where LC holders list their letters of credit and multiple banks and NBFCs compete to finance them, with documents verified, terms transparent and the deal closed in one place.
Why it matters
Businesses unlock working capital faster at better rates, and financiers get a steady pipeline of verified, bank-backed trade paper.
Building

The credit engine for India's lenders

RCU and FCU checks, automated into one full credit decision.

The gap
Banks, NBFCs and credit societies run risk containment (RCU) and fraud control (FCU) checks as separate, largely manual steps: document sampling, field verification, API checks and credit review, each handled by a different team.
What we are building
One automated engine that screens and samples documents, runs the API verifications, flags fraud signals and assesses credit, then returns a complete credit decision in one go.
Why it matters
Lenders decide faster with fewer errors and lower cost, and borrowers get answers in hours instead of weeks.
Application in process

TReDS licence

Trade Receivables Discounting System, authorised by the Reserve Bank of India.

What it is
An RBI-authorised electronic platform where MSMEs sell the invoices they have raised on large companies, government departments and PSUs. Multiple financiers bid, and the MSME is paid quickly without taking on the risk of non-payment.
Why we are applying
India's infrastructure supply chain runs on thousands of MSME suppliers and sub-contractors who wait months to be paid. GIX's verified project data makes their invoices trustworthy, and TReDS turns them into cash.
The future
The RBI has steadily widened TReDS to bring in more participants and financiers. We see it becoming the default way infrastructure suppliers get paid, with GIX data underneath.
Application in process

PA-CB licence

Payment Aggregator – Cross Border, regulated by the Reserve Bank of India.

What it is
RBI authorisation to process cross-border payments for the import and export of goods and services, under the RBI's framework for payment aggregators.
Why we are applying
Trade finance and letters of credit are cross-border by nature. With PA-CB, GIX can move the money as well as verify the paperwork, so exporters receive and importers pay through one regulated platform.
The future
TReDS for domestic receivables and PA-CB for cross-border payments together let GIX cover the full trade cycle: trusted data, credit and settlement in one place.
Going global

Beyond India

Every growing economy needs trusted infrastructure data and faster credit.

The vision
Take the GIX model of a data standard, credit engine and trade-finance rails to other countries building infrastructure at scale, starting with India's trade partners.
Who I am looking for
Global bankers and trade-finance professionals, investors with cross-border networks, regulatory and policy experts, and partners in markets that are building their infrastructure.
Help take GIX global →
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"I have seen first-hand what trusted data and timely credit can do for a business. GIX exists to give both to everyone building India."Prathamesh Madye · Founder, GIX

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Journal

Notes from the build.

Lessons from trading, building and falling, written as I go.

Story · 6 min read

Four feathers: what ten years of building taught me

Every company I built left me a lesson. Here are the four that shaped GIX.
Fintech · Coming soon

Why India's infrastructure needs one data language

The hidden cost of scattered project data, and how a common standard unlocks credit.
Trading · Coming soon

How two years of learning made me a trader

What I learned about risk, journaling and patience between 2018 and 2020.

The Feather Letter

One honest letter a month on building, markets and fintech.

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