New Delhi, Oct. 22 -- 22 years ago, Lokvir Kapoor, Rajul Garg, and Tarun Upadhyay founded Pine Labs. The company evolved from a petroleum automation retail solutions player to becoming a payments products and services firm for merchants. Pine Labs, today, is an Indian merchant platform company that provides financing and last-mile retail transaction technology. It is one of the unicorn companies that makes software for point of sale machines.

With CiOL, Sanjeev Kumar, Chief Technology Officer has drafted Pine Lab's journey during the pandemic. He talks extensively about their latest addition of Plutus Smart, and the company's market reach. Sanjeev Kumar built the core technology that powers the merchant commerce platform. He leads a team...