From Patna to Mexico’s Colima Street — How this IIT Delhi alum built 4 thriving business ventures overseas

From Patna to Mexico s Colima: 4 Ventures

Theindiapostdaily.com – From Patna to Mexico s Colima is the literal trajectory of Vijeet Suman, a 33-year-old IIT Delhi alumna who spent ten years inside corporate finance-operations teams guarding billions of dollars against financial crime before deciding to build his own empire. Three of the four employers he served were absorbed by larger players — Linio became part of Falabella, Cornershop was folded into Uber — and that pattern of consolidation sharpened his conviction that the next move had to be his own. Today he runs four independent companies out of Mexico City.

In a sit-down interview with Hindustan Times, Suman walked through the full arc: from a cramped apartment in Patna to a storefront on Colima Street, from collecting a paycheck to issuing them.

“My mandate was protecting billions of dollars a year from financial crime. Three of the four companies I worked at got acquired. I was lucky with the leaders I worked under — they taught me how to take risks properly, when to bet, and how to own the outcomes.”

Four Companies, Four Origins

Aroma Curry launched in Mexico City in 2023 with no culinary pedigree behind it. The founding impulse was pure frustration: Suman could not find a proper Indian meal in the capital. What began as a small eatery outgrew its walls almost immediately once catering inquiries started arriving. Strangers began asking two Indian engineers to handle food service at their weddings — a leap of faith, by Suman’s own admission. After dozens of such events the pattern became undeniable.

“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.”

Santulan began as a tiny yoga space Suman opened essentially for personal use. Members soon requested a pilates reformer; the studio added one. Within two years, buoyed by its instructors and a loyal community, it climbed to become one of the most highly rated studios in the city. In 2024 Suman walked away from his role at Uber to devote himself full-time to these ventures.

Running two physical locations demanded operational tooling that simply did not exist in a usable form. Unable to find adequate management software, Suman wrote his own. Other studio owners heard about it and asked for access. That demand crystallized into a standalone product: Klasius, a gym-management platform consolidating reservations, payment processing, and member communication through WhatsApp.

The fourth and most recent venture, Fortify, grew directly out of a decade-long battle with financial fraud. Suman and three co-founders built the platform to attack precisely the problem he had spent years fighting from inside large enterprises. At the time of the interview, Fortify was already running pilots with one of Mexico’s largest e-commerce companies.

Operational Chaos and the Credibility Hurdle

Each business carried its own turbulence. At Aroma Curry, delivery-app commissions devoured margins; at one point more than half of revenue flowed through a single platform, effectively making the restaurant a subcontractor for that app until direct ordering channels were built. At Santulan, Suman had to absorb studio economics in real time, coding Klasius after hours while steering daytime operations. With Fortify, the hurdle was credibility: convincing large Mexican enterprises to entrust their fraud-prevention stack to a young startup helmed by foreign engineers proved extraordinarily difficult.

“Every venture brought its own chaos. At Aroma Curry, we looked busy from the outside, but delivery apps were eating our margins raw — at one point, over half our revenue came from a single app, meaning we were basically working for them until we built our own direct channels. At Santulan, I had to learn studio economics on the fly, coding Klasius at night while managing operations by day.”

Frequently Asked Questions

Where did Vijeet Suman study? He earned a B Tech in Textile Technology from IIT Delhi before moving into corporate finance-operations roles.

When did he leave his corporate job? Suman departed Uber in 2024 to manage his ventures full-time.

What does Klasius do? It is a gym-management platform handling reservations, payment processing, and member communication via WhatsApp, originally built to solve an internal operational gap at Santulan.

Is Fortify fully launched? At the time of the Hindustan Times interview, Fortify was in pilot stage with one of Mexico’s largest e-commerce companies.