Nikhil Kurhe

Nikhil Kurhe, Co-Founder and CEO, Finarkein Analytics Nikhil Kurhe is the CEO of Finarkein Analytics, a pioneering DeepTech company building trusted data products for India’s BFSI sector and digital public infrastructure (DPI). At Finarkein, Nikhil drives the product roadmap, business development, and ecosystem evangelism, enabling enterprises to leverage AI-driven, real-time data solutions for onboarding, underwriting, credit monitoring, collections, and financial insights. Since its founding in 2019, Finarkein has emerged as a category creator in the DPI Infra space, powering billions of transactions annually and supporting 14 trusted data products across AA, OCEN, ONDC-FS, and ABDM frameworks. Beyond Finarkein, Nikhil is a Volunteer Architect at Sahamati, a self-organized collective advancing India’s Account Aggregator ecosystem. He actively contributes to industry outreach, manages the Sahamati Discord community, and supports the development of technical standards and utilities for the ecosystem. An alumnus of PICT, Pune (B.E. in Computer Science, 2016), Nikhil is recognized for his thought leadership in digital data ecosystems and his mission to build scalable, trustworthy infrastructure shaping the future of India’s financial and digital services landscape.