WHAT IS DIRECTPAY?
Payments made easier whether it is shopping online, in apps, or in stores, save time & hassle at checkout. No more filling forms or heavy pockets. Shop where you like, when you like with a simple click, scan and pay providing an easy and secure way to pay. You would love the simplicity and the convenience of using the latest technology and being one step closer towards a cashless society.

DirectPay, a fintech startup in the payments industry of Sri Lanka which was founded in the year 2017. This is aimed at providing financial inclusion through cashless means providing affordability and accessibility to all users and merchants. Our industry are verticals cater to retail and restaurants(supermarkets, corner shops and sunday pola), third party integrations with in app payment facility (pizzahut, uber and pickme) and online payments (e-commerce sites). We also facilitate multi channel payment platform so that we aim on building an ecosystem where everyone can make payments simply , securely and quickly with the help of our seamless technology. All the founder are well known to each other as they have been knowing each other for 2-6 years. They have been working together on many different projects together, therefore understand each other’s potentials very well. For the current project DirectPay they have been brainstorming on this idea to fine-tune the product and by adding new features and adding future value propositions for DirectPay.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Kanishka Weeramunda

Kanishka Weeramunda brings in the strategic leadership, having 17 years of experience in the IT industry he carries 3 years of experience in the financial technology domain and eco-system support. He has been a mentor for many successful startups and have been the coach for the world’s 8th and 5th student entrepreneur at the Global Students Entrepreneurship Awards 2015 and 2016. Establishing PayMedia and making it the best startup of the year 2015 and for the contribution he has made towards the IT industry he was awarded the most valuable ICT entrepreneur of the year at the NBQSA 2015. He is a graduate from the University of Colombo in Bachelors of Information Technology, holds a MBA and a MSc in HR and charted IT professional from the institute of Charted IT professionals in UK.
Kanishka Weeramunda
Director / Founder
Dinesh Karunathilaka

Dinesh Karunathilaka, 8 years in the open source technologies predominantly in system architecture. 3 years of experience in the fin-tech industry. He has experience in different companies namely RoomsNet,
RezGateway and Laugfs under different verticals. He has travelled to Europe, Asia and Asia Pacific for exhibitions and workshops gaining insights on different emerging markets and potential markets and their technologies. He is a certified Red Hat enterprise architect and reading for Masters in Information Security.
Dinesh Karunathilaka
Director / Founder
Sasindu Pathiranage

Sasindu Pathiranage runs the show he is a graduate from the University of Middlesex in BSc Business Information System Management and reads for his MBA at the University of Northampton. He has five years of experience in large corporations such as laugh holdings, SMB securities and Edulink International Campus. His expertise lies in system integrations and implementations.