Vijeet Suman, a 33-year-old IIT Delhi alumnus from Patna, is rewriting the definition of serial entrepreneurship thousands of miles from home in Mexico. After spending a highly successful decade protecting billions in payments and fraud for major tech acquisitions, including a significant stint at Uber, Suman decided to pursue a very different life. What began as a venture into the culinary world, driven simply by a desire to find authentic Indian food, quickly evolved. In an interview with hindustantimes.com, Suman detailed his journey from the tech boardroom to launching and managing a diverse portfolio of four thriving companies.
Honest reason: we missed real Indian food and got tired of waiting for someone else to make it. We had zero restaurant experience, but then something unexpected happened – strangers started asking us to cater their weddings. Letting two Indian engineers handle food on the most important day of their lives was a huge leap of faith. Dozens of weddings later, it taught me a fundamental lesson: if you fix a real necessity, the market shows you the way naturally. At the time, he was juggling his food venture alongside his role at Uber. The IITian didn’t stop there; he went on to build software to manage his other businesses, and it became another source of income for him. “When I couldn’t find decent software to manage it, I built my own. Other studio owners asked for it, and that became Klasius. Fortify came last: after ten years fighting fraud, three friends and I built a platform to tackle the exact problem I knew best, and we are already running pilots with one of Mexico’s largest e-commerce companies. Beyond the business complexities, the journey required immense personal sacrifice. Balancing demanding startup hours with family life thousands of miles away from home took a heavy emotional toll. Looking back, the entrepreneur shared, “The personal cost was the hardest part. Balancing late-night tech deployments and kitchen fires with diaper changes, far from home, meant constantly deciding which fire to put out first. Living across the world comes with a quiet tax: missing Sunday lunches, family festivals, and watching your parents age over video calls. “The highest point? We had never done anything at that scale and weren’t sure we could pull it off. Everything went perfectly, but the moment I’ll never forget was when guests came up to tell us the food tasted ‘just like Delhi. We were thousands of miles from home, but in that single sentence, our whole reason for starting the restaurant came back to us.”
Suman explained, “In 2023, while still working in tech, Arpit Khurana and I opened Aroma Curry in Mexico City. That all changed in 2024, when he decided to walk away from corporate life and chart a new path. My son was born in 2023, the same year as Aroma Curry. Catering our first big wedding with over 300 guests.
