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Ronak Kumar Samantray is an Indian technology entrepreneur. He is the co-Founder of NowFloats, a Hyderabad, India based company that helps businesses establish and maintain a website using SMS or a mobile app.

Early life and career
Samantray completed his undergraduate studies at College of Engineering and Technology, Bhubaneswar in 2008 when he received a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science. Samantray started the first robotics club in Odisha called Zairza, which is still active at Samantray’s alma mater, College of Engineering and Technology, Bhubaneswar.

Upon graduating, in July 2008, Samantray started a three-year stint at Microsoft, where he was a Senior Software Design Engineer until July 2011. At Microsoft, Samantray built a speech glove that interprets finger movements and converts them to speech. He resigned from Microsoft after three years.

In July 2011, he co-founded NowFloats, where he remains today. The company acquired its first customer in September 2012. The same year, NowFloats was the first company incubated by Microsoft Ventures in India. As of January 2017, the company has over 230,000 customers and has raised over $10 million in investor funding.

Samantray is also the co-inventor and chief advisor for Bolt, the first smartphone charger for motorcycles. Samantray has been recognized for his achievements on numerous occasions. In 2013, he was named an INK Fellow. In 2016, Forbes named Samantray to their “30 Under 30 2016 Asia” list.