About us

Rishi Korde being a graduate from IIT, did his duel degree in Industrial Chemistry. Being engineering & research background with 4 publications in International Journals, he was part of prestigious organisations of IIT-BHU, Imperial College London, Manchester University, University of Saarland, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune in areas of Organic Synthesis, drug delivery, fuel cell tech, etc. Due to his background, formulation of the best blend for Oat Milk was really easy part for him. For more details about his profile, please visit www.rishikorde.com Currently, he is striving to develop new innovative plant based products with out of box concepts in the food and beverage segment! He graduated from Imperial College London in Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Management in 2019-20. He started his company in London. While he was back in India, during COVID-19, he missed to have his regular consumption of Oat Milk. He really looked around to get it around but unable to find it anywhere in India, he started to work on formulations. Within a week, he had a first blend ready! He iterated the process, refined it and eureka! He finally hit the best method to make it! Transforming Lab method to scalable manufacturing facility was challenging part! Rishi with the knowledge of engineering was able to design the process and got his equipment manufactured under 'Make In India' initiative and automation to minimise human contact! After efforts of a year and half, OATMAX products are now manufactured in it's own facility, western part of India, Satara, Maharashtra, a beautiful place gifted by nature, we are developing plant based, eco-conscious products for the Indian and worldwide markets! He was able to secure Start-up Visa in the United Kingdom for his project with the support of the Enterprise Lab, Imperial College London, UK. The manufacturing facility is highest credentials of FSSAI centrally licensed and is maintaining high quality international standards from export perspective. Being hailed from family of doctors, Dr. Sanjay Korde (M.D. Medicine, Physician and cardiological consultant) and Dr. Bharati Korde (Dental surgeon), parents helped him to make this project aligned with medical side. The formulation to cater various needs of weight loss, cholesterol-free, high fiber content, low calories! His future vision is to create more conscious plant based products in the future and be innovative market leader in the F&B segment! He has gathered best team in the field to build strong R&D arm. Team OATMAX will be launching soon more blends of Oat Milk, Oat based satiety driven products, vegan ice-creams, plant based meats! So, stay tuned! Lots of products from OATMAX are in the line-up!