Sathvik Vishwanath, an MBA graduate from Melbourne Business School, started his entrepreneurial journey started with VentureNext in 2008, which was involved with custom scripting for businesses in the virtual world called SecondLife. After being acquainted with Bitcoin in 2013, his next venture CoinMonk aimed to develop Bitcoin awareness among the public and organised the Global Bitcoin Conference in Dec 2013 - the first-ever such event in India. At that conference, he launched a Bitcoin buy/sell service called Unocoin.com, which provides services like Bitcoin storage, buying, selling, merchant gateway and PoS app.