The Founding Team

DCE shaped the three of us. Maidan Play is built by three founders who met at Delhi College of Engineering, were trained by some of the best companies in the world, and have come back to build something that matters at home.

Portrait of Abhimanyu Singh

Abhimanyu Singh

Founder & CEO

Abhimanyu's career has followed a single thread: taking categories that don't yet exist at scale and building them into significant businesses.

That pattern began at Flipkart, where he grew Small Home Appliances from ₹150 Cr to over ₹700 Cr in ARR. It deepened at Blinkit, where he led the launch of Electronics on quick commerce in India — a category most believed couldn't work on a 10-minute delivery model. Under his leadership, the business scaled from ₹20 Cr to over ₹800 Cr ARR, and he was recognised with Zomato's Rising Star Founders Award.

At Zepto, where he served as Vice President of Electronics & Appliances, he continued the trajectory: scaling the P&L from ₹120 Cr to over ₹900 Cr within twelve months and earning one of the company's fastest promotions from Senior Director to VP. He built India's ₹6,000 Cr+ Quick Commerce Category for Electronics and Appliances from scratch.

An alumnus of XLRI Jamshedpur (MBA) and Delhi College of Engineering (B.Tech), he is recognised as one of India's leading category builders in modern commerce.

Portrait of Akash Sahay

Akash Sahay

Founder & CFO

Akash spent nine years working in various capacities at Goldman Sachs, starting in their Bengaluru office as a Management & Strategy Analyst for a cross-asset sales desk before spending the last four years working in FICC Macro Sales in New York.

He was the only salesperson hired to the New York office out of his cohort. In his last full year at GS, he tripled individual production from $7M to $21M, while closing GS's first structured product sale to a Canadian Mutual Fund.

B.Tech from Delhi College of Engineering. GMAT 750.

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Amit Mishra

Curriculum Director

Amit's professional focus has consistently been on bringing structure to scale — transforming ambiguous social and educational programmes into rigorous, data-driven systems.

His work gained significant traction at Radics Education, where he led the development of an MIT Solvethon-winning AI-driven learning management system and validated cross-country assessments across India and Kenya. He brought this systems-level thinking to The World Bank, where he established the strategic M&E framework for the Nagaland Education Department from scratch — aligning state administrators and teachers around data-driven goals through decision-support dashboards.

At Digital Green, Amit led the monitoring and evaluation strategy, designing results frameworks that translated the priorities of global donors into actionable field operations, empowering senior leadership to make high-impact programme pivots based on emerging trends.

An alumnus of the Indian Statistical Institute and Delhi College of Engineering (B.Tech), Amit combines advanced quantitative rigour with foundational grassroots experience as a Teach For India Fellow. He is recognised for bridging complex analytics with on-the-ground reality to drive evidence-based policy.

Corporate Office & Contact

Address

Maidan Play Private Limited
House no-39, Block No-23
Old Rajendra Nagar Road
Central Delhi, New Delhi 110060