Founders

Built by pet parents.

SnoutSync is built in South India by founders who live with — and love — their pets.

Sanjay Stephen

Founder & CEO

Bangalore-based product builder and lifelong dog person. Sanjay founded SnoutSync after a year of navigating India's fragmented pet care ecosystem as a first-time pet parent — and deciding to build the trust layer it was missing.

Sanjay's path to SnoutSync runs through years of building consumer products in Bangalore — and through every WhatsApp group, unverified listing and 11pm vet search that Indian pet parents know too well. The turning point was a routine health scare that meant calling six clinics from an online directory: two had shut down, one had no vet on duty. The problem wasn't a shortage of good professionals. It was that nothing connected pet parents to them with any guarantee of trust.

He spent the following months talking to vets, groomers, trainers and breeders across Bangalore and found the same frustration on the other side of the counter — genuinely excellent professionals losing discovery to whoever spent the most on ads or shouted loudest in a Facebook group. Verification, he realised, would fix both sides of the market at once.

Sanjay leads product, design and the verification standard at SnoutSync. He holds every screen to a simple test: would this be good enough for my own dogs?

Origin

Why we built SnoutSync

Because being a pet parent in India shouldn't require luck. Every one of us has forwarded a "does anyone know a good vet near HSR?" message and waited. Every one of us has trusted a stranger's Instagram review with our pet's health. The professionals doing right by animals deserve to be found, and the parents doing right by their pets deserve certainty — not guesswork.

We built SnoutSync as the product we wished existed the day we brought our first pets home: one verified network, one Pet Passport, one community of real neighbours. It's a company, yes — but it started as a promise to our own dogs.

Life with pets, first

Everyone building SnoutSync lives the product daily. Team dogs attend offsites, product reviews happen with pets in the room, and weekend "field research" usually means a Cubbon Park meetup with leashes in hand. That closeness isn't a perk — it's the quality bar. When a feature confuses a teammate booking their own dog's grooming appointment, it goes back to the drawing board before it ever reaches you.

Build it with us

The first 1,000 pet parents and businesses shape SnoutSync from the inside — with lifetime perks to match.

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