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Ishqkala

About Ishqkala

We read the claim files nobody has time to read.

Founded by Saksham Sharma and built with claims executives, a former subrogation trial attorney and NLP engineers. ISHQKALA PRIVATE LIMITED is registered in India, with its registered office in East Delhi, Delhi.

Founding thesis

Subrogation is a reading problem.

Saksham Sharma founded Ishqkala around a pattern that shows up at regional carriers again and again: the subrogation unit is skilled, but it only sees the files adjusters refer. Adjusters carrying 100 to 150 claims refer the obvious rear-ends and miss the plumber in the diary note, the dryer in the fire report and the indemnity clause in the lease.

Kavya Narayanan saw the other side as a subrogation trial attorney in Chicago: strong recoveries arriving on her desk weeks before the limitation period ran, or after it had. Siddharth Menon had built document-understanding systems for insurers and banks and knew the reading itself was now solvable, provided every answer could be traced to its source and checked against the law.

Ishqkala is the result: software that reads every open and closed claim file, reasons over the loss state's fault rules and deadlines, and hands subrogation professionals a short, scored, documented list. Industry studies put missed subrogation at 15% to 30% of viable opportunities. Our job is to make that number visible, and then smaller.

Operating principles

Six rules we build by.

  • Show the sourceEvery finding links to the page and line it came from. If a reviewer cannot verify it in seconds, we do not surface it.
  • The law decides, not the modelFault rules, limitation periods and notice deadlines come from a counsel-reviewed rules library, versioned and cited.
  • Precision over volumeSubrogation teams drown in noisy referrals. We would rather surface 40 strong opportunities than 400 weak ones.
  • Claim data is not our dataNo training on customer files, no resale, no sharing. US-only residency and tenant isolation by default.
  • Stay inside the boundaryWe build software. Licensed claim professionals and counsel make every recovery decision and send every demand.
  • Earn on resultsContingency-aligned pricing keeps us honest: when customers do not recover, we do not get paid.

Leadership

Claims, law and machine reading, at the same table.

  • Saksham Sharma

    Founder & Chief Executive Officer

    Founder of Ishqkala. Sets company strategy and product direction, and leads carrier, TPA and recovery counsel partnerships.

  • Siddharth Menon

    Chief Technology Officer

    Built document-understanding pipelines for insurance and banking clients at Infosys. Research in legal-text NLP at IISc Bengaluru. IIT Madras B.Tech in Computer Science.

  • Kavya Narayanan, Esq.

    Head of Liability Research

    Former subrogation trial attorney in Chicago representing property insurers in product defect and construction recoveries. Northwestern Pritzker JD, NLSIU Bengaluru BA LLB.

  • Arjun Bhatia, CPCU

    VP, Claims Solutions

    Eighteen years in US auto and property claims, including six running a regional mutual's subrogation unit. Owns the recovery playbooks behind the scoring models.

  • Rahul Deshmukh

    VP, Engineering & Integrations

    Guidewire-certified integration architect. Previously led ClaimCenter and Duck Creek integration programs at Wipro for North American carriers. COEP Pune alumnus.

  • Priya Venkatesh, CISSP

    Head of Security & Compliance

    Ran SOC 2 and HIPAA programs for health and insurance platforms at Wipro and HCLTech. Owns the Ishqkala trust program, audits and data residency controls.

Advisory board

  • Margaret O'Donnell

    Advisor, Subrogation Operations

    Former VP of Subrogation at a top-25 US personal auto carrier; 30 years in recovery operations and inter-company arbitration.

  • Dr. Ravi Shankar

    Advisor, Applied NLP

    Professor of computational linguistics, IISc Bengaluru. Research on information extraction from legal and regulatory text.

  • Daniel Whitfield, CPCU

    Advisor, Carrier Finance

    Retired CFO of a Midwest regional mutual group; former chair of a state mutual insurers association finance committee.

  • Lakshmi Iyer

    Advisor, Data Protection

    Privacy counsel for cross-border insurance data programs; advises on HIPAA, GLBA and DPDP Act compliance.

Milestones

Twenty months of execution.

  1. Feb 2025

    Founding team formed in Delhi around one problem: subrogation that adjusters never have time to find.

  2. May 2025

    First 50-state limitation, notice and comparative fault rules library completed with subrogation counsel review.

  3. Aug 2025

    First free closed-claim audit: 500 files for a Midwest mutual, 13 actionable recoveries found.

  4. Nov 2025

    SOC 2 Type I report issued; HIPAA program and standard BAA in place.

  5. 2026

    Incorporated in India as ISHQKALA PRIVATE LIMITED (CIN U47711DL2026PTC471065).

  6. Feb 2026

    Guidewire ClaimCenter and Duck Creek connectors live in production tenants.

  7. Apr 2026

    One million claim documents processed across customer tenants.

  8. Jul 2026

    SOC 2 Type II report issued for the audit period ending June 30, 2026.

  9. Sep 2026

    $45M+ in missed recoveries identified in customer closed files; 2026 Benchmark Report published.

$45M+
missed recoveries identified in customer closed files
1.2 pts
average combined ratio reduction across partner carriers
92%
adverse liability scoring accuracy, verified by subrogation counsel
12,000+
Statute of Limitations expirations prevented

Corporate transparency

Who we are, on paper.

Founder
Saksham Sharma
Legal entity
ISHQKALA PRIVATE LIMITED, a private, non-government company registered in India
Corporate Identification Number (CIN)
U47711DL2026PTC471065
Incorporated
2026
Registered office
10/135 Geeta Colony, East Delhi, Delhi, 110031, India
Main line
+91 (040) 4852-6120
Toll-free support
1800-309-7826
General inquiries
hello@ishqkala.si
Security
security@ishqkala.si

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