Chemistry of Systematic Scaling

Sachin Santhosh’s entrepreneurial journey wasn’t a sudden leap; it was a carefully built progression shaped by engineering experience, financial exposure, and years of working inside early-stage startups. Now the Co-Founder of Scimplify, Sachin represents a new generation of founders tackling industrial and deep-tech challenges with scale, discipline, and global ambition.

Raised in Mumbai, Sachin pursued engineering at IIT Madras, specializing in material science. His early career began far from manufacturing floors, inside finance. After graduating, he joined Credit Suisse through campus placements, spending a few years in investment banking before realizing that corporate stability wasn’t aligned with his long-term ambitions.

“And then I wanted to start my own business. This is more than 10 years ago, and at that time, I didn’t have a very clear idea about how to start a business or even how to run a business,” says Sachin. 

Instead of jumping straight into entrepreneurship, Sachin chose an apprenticeship model to understand how companies are built from the ground up. Over nearly eight years, he embedded himself in the operational realities of startups, learning sales, customer acquisition, fundraising, and execution directly from founders.

Sachin recalls, “I started working for startups, mostly B2B startups, very early-stage companies. I was working closely with founders to understand how these businesses are set up, how sales happen, how customers are brought on board, and how fundraising happens. That experience shaped how I think about building a company.”

By 2023, after years of preparation and participation in the Starting Up program, Sachin and his co-founders launched Scimplify, a company focused on specialty chemical manufacturing with a fundamentally modern operating model. Scimplify positions itself as an asset-light manufacturer, handling innovation, process development, quality control, and customer delivery while leveraging third-party factories for production scale.

“These are products used in everyday life, from food and medicines to cosmetics, automotive equipment, and industrial applications. We focus on process development and innovation, and we work with a network of third-party factories to scale production. We operate as a full-stack solution, taking responsibility from chemical development to delivery and quality for the end customer.”

The company already serves major pharmaceutical, crop science, and industrial players, including other large enterprise customers, an indicator of both credibility and execution strength in a traditionally complex sector.

2025 marked a pivotal inflection point for Scimplify, shifting from foundational setup to aggressive international expansion. What began as an India-focused operation rapidly turned global.

“ In the first year, we were just setting the base. But in 2025, we grew from doing a small India-focused business to delivering products in more than 30 countries. We set up offices and entities in the US, Japan, Dubai, and Indonesia, with teams on the ground. The speed of customer acceptance and expansion is what I’m most proud of.”

That growth was supported by a USD 40 million funding round, deployed toward international expansion and deeper R&D investments, positioning Scimplify for long-term technological and geographic scale.

While still in investment mode, Sachin notes that the company is approaching profitability, balancing operational discipline with forward-looking product development.

“At an operational level, we’ve been running at breakeven for the last six months. There are still R&D and product development investments that are future-facing, but overall, we expect to break even in the next six months,” says Sachin. 

For young founders and aspiring entrepreneurs, Sachin’s advice is grounded in realism rather than hype. Instead of rushing into startups, he encourages learning inside fast-growing companies first.

Sachin says, “I’ve had the good fortune of working with some amazing entrepreneurs before starting my own. They gave me the freedom to run businesses within the company, almost like a separate startup. If you’re 25, I’d suggest joining a hyper-growth company for at least five years and understanding how scale works before taking the leap. If you’re unsure, working in a fast-growing company itself will teach you a lot.”

Fact sheet:

Age (as on February 1, 2026): 33
Number of Co-founders: 3
Number of Employees: 260
Year of Company Inception: 2023
External Investors & Funding Stage: Accel, 3one4Capital, Beenext, Omnivore, Bertelsmann India Investments, UMI | Series B funded with $54Million raised in total
Major Clients: Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, Hetero Labs, Coromandel, Godrej Agrovet