Amrit Acharya

Zetwerk is entering new countries and diversifying its supply chain to mitigate risk amid rising geopolitical tensions, Acharya has said as Trump's tariff war threatens global trade

Germ of an idea: How Zetwerk pivoted to write its Make in India story

Zetwerk, a B2B manufacturing marketplace unicorn, began its journey from a one-bedroom apartment in Bengaluru and today it is looking to transform manufacturing by helping customers optimise suppliers, reduce costs and work faster

Zetwerk: Unicorn that wants to reimagine Indian manufacturing| Meet its founders on Bits To Billions

Most of the founders of unicorn Zetwerk have two things in common: they studied at IIT or worked at ITC. Founded in 2018 by Amrit Acharya, Srinath Ramakkrushnan, Rahul Sharma and Vishal Chaudhary, Zetwerk is a manufacturing platform connecting original equipment manufacturers and engineering procurement construction customers across India, North America and Southeast Asia with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It is present in categories such as fabrication, machining, casting and forging and helps customers in procuring custom products (which are not available off-the-shelf), real-time tracking and project management all the way till delivery. On this episode of Bits to Billions, the founders weighed in on How Zetwerk started, why manufacturing is broken in India, how they plan to fix it, the currency macro environment and why Zetwerk is insulated.

Profitable and capitalised, it is business as usual for us: Zetwerk CEO Amrit Acharya

“While we also grew a lot last year, we grew profitably. And hence, in some way, destiny is under our control because we can now choose to go aggressive or not, without relying on extreme measures,” he said.