In today’s digital world abundant with collaboration tools, MELP is emerging from the clutter with a bold promise to redefine how global teams communicate, connect, and create. MELP—a next-gen, AI-powered multi-enterprise linking platform that provides an ecosystem built for secure, seamless, and intelligent collaboration. Madhaw Anand is the steering wheel for this innovation, the visionary CEO of the company whose mission is to make workplace communication more inclusive, intuitive, and impactful. In this frank discussion, Mr. Anand shares his understanding of MELP’s journey, its unique proposition, and how it is managing its own space amid the fierce race of tech giants like Microsoft Teams and Zoom.
Here are the edited excerpts:
Q1. What is the problem MELP is trying to solve in the market?
Madhaw Anand: So before developing a startup like MELP, we did R&D and understood the pinpoint of the Indian startup ecosystem as a semi-segment. Currently, this ecosystem is facing many problems, especially when someone wants to run a business. There are uses for multiple applications, but what if any startup tries to compile them under one umbrella? Any startup, SME, enterprise, or any organization using MELP then need not use any other application; everything is available here in the MELP.
That is the area MELP is trying to help. MELP is a comprehensive communication and collaboration tool. It’s not like video conferencing like Zoom, but a comprehensive one. So, every feature we have developed here in MELP is required to run the businesses, and for those who are using them in MELP, it is enhancing their productivity and saving them a lot of time. There are a lot of unique features, like the real-time translation, like we are trying to remove the language barrier, which is prevalent in all parts of the world. If you want to do business in Russia, there will be a language problem. How will you interact with them? You need a translator; hiring a translator is an expensive affair, so if you’re using MELP, you can do real-time chat, and automatically, you’ll get it in your suitable language, and they will get it in Russian or whatever their preferred language is.
Q2. Can you give us a sense of MELP’s current scale—how many employees are part of the team, and from which cities or regions does the company operate?
Madhaw Anand: We have been running this company for five years. The headquarters is in New York. Right now, we have around 150 employees, and we have our global presence—offices in Armenia, New Jersey, and Singapore, and of course, we have an office in India as well with a full setup in Noida.
Q3. Was there any specific goal that inspired you to take part in Startup Maha Kumbh this year?
Madhaw Anand: I thought it was the right platform to launch our product within the Indian market so there will be buzz about this product, there will be awareness about this product, and the kind of attraction we have set during the last two and a half days is amazing, and I am very hopeful in the coming days we will have a good user base in India as well.
The contemporary digital world is dominated by legacy players with incomplete solutions. MELP is creating its own niche by bringing all communication tools under one umbrella, a powered platform. Under the leadership of Madhaw Anand, the company is successfully addressing the pain points of enterprises and startups and championing digital inclusivity through unique features like real-time translation of languages and accessible tech. MELP’s strategic launch in India at Startup Maha Kumbh is on its way to becoming a shining name around the globe, reshaping how businesses communicate, connect, and thrive in a borderless world.