# Peaceful-Loans Wins BW Disrupt 40 Under 40 Award 2026

**Published by BW Disrupt & BW Businessworld**  
*16th September 2026*  
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Peaceful Loans founder **Mangesh Zope** has been honored in the 10th edition of **BW Disrupt 40 Under 40** by *BW Businessworld* for pioneering borrower-first home loan advisory, building state-of-the-art proprietary mortgage evaluation technology, and driving transparent rate-spread navigation in India.

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### Who is the Award Given To?
The BW Disrupt 40 Under 40 honours high-impact entrepreneurs, innovators, and intrapreneurs under 40 who are building disruptive ventures, developing game-changing business models, and reshaping established industries through strategy, execution, and technological innovation.

### Why Peaceful Loans Won
Peaceful Loans was created to eliminate the conflict of interest and asymmetric information in Indian mortgage borrowing through four key pillars:
1. **100% Borrower-First Advocacy:** Operating strictly as an independent fiduciary for home buyers rather than an agent of banks or builders.
2. **State-of-the-Art Proprietary Technology:** In-house developed algorithms for automated sanction letter audits, fine-print stress testing, and real-time rate-spread benchmarking.
3. **Transparent Rate-Spread Navigation:** Clear mathematical breakdowns of benchmark spreads, repo-rate transmission mechanics, and reset clauses.
4. **Disciplined Bootstrapped Growth:** Scaling from ₹15 crore to ₹75 crore+ in quarterly sanctions entirely bootstrapped.

### Eminent Jury Panel
Evaluated by a distinguished panel of venture capitalists and business leaders including:
- Annurag Batra (BW Businessworld)
- Sanjay Mehta (100X.VC)
- Nikhil Vora (Sixth Sense Ventures)
- Apoorva Sharma (Stride Ventures)
- Ankur Bansal (BlackSoil)
- Vikram Gupta (IvyCap Ventures)
- Imran Jafar (Gaja Capital)
- Radhesh Kanumury (Suvan Ventures)