NeoGrowth’s First Employee-Led Hackathon Is For Driving Business Impact
FinTech BizNews Service
Mumbai, October 14, 2025: AIvolution, NeoGrowth’s first GenAI hackathon, brought together employees from diverse functions to build solutions that strengthen processes, drive transformation, and deliver meaningful business outcomes. NeoGrowth, a leading MSME-focused NBFC with operations across 25+ cities and and lifetime disbursements of INR 150 billion, launched AIvolution as part of its commitment to fostering a culture where collaboration, innovation, and technology-led growth converge to shape the future of lending. At a time when many companies are still grappling with how to integrate GenAI into their business systems, AIvolution brought a fresh perspective, empowering young talent to experiment, explore, and deliver solutions with real impact.
For every participant, AIvolution was a journey of learning, collaboration and building impactful solutions. Teams progressed from brainstorming and use-case selection to development, insights from business leaders and users, and final submissions. Along the way, participants built new skills in Python, AWS Bedrock, LLMs such as OpenAI and Claude, and UI/UX frameworks like Flask and ReactJS. They also experimented with advanced tools such as Whisper, Tesseract, AWS Textract, and Comprehend. Notably, many participants who were engaging with core technologies for the first time developed go-live-ready solutions, a testament to NeoGrowth’s ethos of learning, agility, and collective ownership.
On Hackathon Day, teams refined and fine-tuned their prototypes with valuable feedback from business leaders, ensuring the solutions were robust, practical, and impactful. The hackathon became a cultural milestone, embedding curiosity and an AI-first mindset across the organisation. It showcased multiple high-impact use cases across the lending value chain, including customer engagement, risk management, fraud detection, sales enablement, operational efficiency, governance, compliance, and GenAI-powered onboarding journeys that reduce turnaround time while minimising errors.
Customer experience took centre stage with agentic AI bots managing support queries, outbound welcome calls, and multilingual engagement. Collections were strengthened through intelligent field navigation tools that prioritise visits based on proximity, customer profile, and real-time traffic. Finance and compliance processes were reimagined through AI-powered operational analytics, fraud risk scorecards, and GenAI assistants simplifying RBI/FEMA regulations. Together, these innovations reflected the depth of technical creativity and the breadth of business impact, with several solutions ready for immediate pilot and scale.
Arun Nayyar, Managing Director and CEO of NeoGrowth said: “AIvolution is not just a hackathon; it reflects our
ambition to make GenAI a core part of how we think, work, and grow as an organisation. By harnessing the creativity of our in-house, cross-functional talent and empowering teams to experiment and co-create, we are strengthening the culture of innovation to embrace emerging technologies. We strongly believe that effective and meaningful use of AI across the lending value chain will differentiate us from the competition and help us manage risk, enhance efficiency, improve customer experience, and strengthen our ability to serve India’s small businesses with greater impact and agility.”
The hackathon demonstrates how NeoGrowth is deepening its innovation culture by translating employee-driven ideas into scalable, tech-led solutions that advance India’s MSME ecosystem.
