Exclusive Interview – Closeloop Technologies
Assim Gupta, founder & CEO, Closeloop Technologies
In an exclusive interview with Shreyas Webmedia Solutions, the spokesperson, Closeloop Technologies discussed various aspects such as the company’s business model, brand’s USP, various software development projects, and many more .
Let’s know more about the company’s success story and its vision.
– Can you tell us about the company’s founders and culture?
Assim Gupta is the founder and CEO of Closeloop Technologies. He was born and brought up in India, where he pursued a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), a degree course in Electronics and Computer Science, back in 1993. In the subsequent years, he completed his MBA from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade in International Marketing & Finance (1994-1996), followed by an Advanced Project Management Certificate from Stanford University.
His work experience includes working with top-grade companies in the technology space, namely Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Essar, SGI, Oracle, and VMWare. He worked as a software engineering professional and a product manager in the aforementioned companies before starting his own ventures; Closeloop Technologies is one of them.
Besides managing Closeloop, he is a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs and an investor too. He has been a member of Keiretsu Capital and Band of Angels for a few years as an Angel Investor and a panelist at PitchForce, a platform for startups to raise funds.
– What is your business model?
Closeloop is a service-based company delivering avant-garde digital solutions to clients around the world. The goal is to deliver the desired solution to the client that empowers business digitally through software, mobile app, or enterprise solution. We follow an agile approach to building customized solutions for our clients with complete transparency and integrity. We help businesses achieve digital excellence through advanced software engineering, automation techniques, and emerging technologies like Artificial intelligence, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Blockchain, and Cloud Computing, to name a few. We primarily work on two business models, fixed pricing and dedicated hiring models.
– Share briefly about how you took the entrepreneurial path?
Everyone desires to own a business and build a lifestyle around it. I was no exception; however, the difference was I made serious efforts toward my goal of becoming an entrepreneur. Though the journey wasn’t plain sailing, it was undoubtedly exciting. In my early professional life, I realized that I had entrepreneurial grit, which kept me going and also introduced me to a lot of like-minded people who became my inspiration and helped me throughout the journey. One piece of advice they gave me was to believe in yourself. It has exceedingly helped me in my professional as well as personal life. Regardless of the challenges that came my way, I hustled my way to becoming an ambitious entrepreneur.
– What is your biggest USP that differentiates the company from competitors?
Closeloop is a client-focused company that has always placed the needs of its customers at the top of its list of priorities. Regardless of the nature, size, or sector of your organization, we provide unmatched services to all. The following distinguishing qualities make us unique in the software engineering business:
1. C-level Consulting: You get expert recommendations from our CTO (Chief Technical Officer), Head of Marketing, and even Chief Executing Officer (CEO). You can imagine how valuable their experience would be to your business, considering their extensive industry experience.
2. Seed to Enterprise Assistance: We make startups grow into enterprises.
3. Full-stack development and innovation: We provide innovative end-to-end solutions.
– How many projects have you executed till now? Please explain.
We have successfully delivered numerous software development projects that upgraded the client’s business and, more importantly, positively impacted the industry. While you can have a look at our projects under the portfolio section on our website, the following are some of our completed projects:
● HomeRun, a FinTech web application for seamless and hassle-free home loan processing, was made from scratch by Closeloop.
● Ajna is a new-age recruitment software and one-of-its-kind in the industry that promotes unbiased hiring and boasts client-specific features like appropriate candidate matching, automated interview scheduling, and others.
● Omnidian is an analytics software for solar systems that gathers data and determines and manages solar panel readings in real-time.
For more projects, you can check out our portfolio on the website.
– Success story of Closeloop in few words
Success is when our clients secure funding for their business based on collaborative efforts and groundbreaking, flawless products or solutions. For instance, one of our clients from the US secured funding of $1,000,000 from the industry’s reputed investors for the loan portal for homeowners that works on clean energy. Visit our website- https://closeloop.com/