# Anand Prajapati

> Anand Prajapati is Co-Founder and CTO of Leena AI, an enterprise agentic AI platform that deploys AI colleagues to automate back-office work across HR, IT, Finance, and Procurement. A graduate of IIT Delhi, Anand built Leena AI's technology from scratch after two earlier startup pivots, guiding the company through Y Combinator's Summer 2018 batch to a $30M Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Today Leena AI's platform serves 400+ enterprise customers across 90+ countries - including Nestlé, Coca-Cola, and Sony - resolving millions of employee queries autonomously across 100+ languages.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CTO at Leena AI
- **Organizations:** Leena AI, Y Combinator (Alumni), Zuppit Tech Solutions, Chatterton
- **From:** India
- **Nationality:** Indian
- **Education:** B.Tech, Industrial and Production Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi
- **Known for:** Built Leena AI's technology platform from scratch, now serving 400+ enterprise customers across 90+ countries, Guided Leena AI through Y Combinator Summer 2018 batch, Scaled engineering team from 1 to 110+ engineers

## Career timeline

- **2015-2016** — Co-founded Zuppit Tech Solutions, an AI-based content summarization startup
- **2016-2018** — Pivoted to Chatterton, a horizontal chatbot development platform for businesses
- **2018** — Co-founded Leena AI with Adit Jain and Mayank Goyal; accepted into Y Combinator Summer 2018 batch
- **2018** — Raised $2M seed round from Y Combinator
- **2020** — Led Leena AI through $8M Series A; platform expanded from chatbots to full HR service platform
- **2021** — Raised $30M Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners; platform served 6M+ employees
- **2022-2023** — Scaled engineering organization to 110+ engineers; expanded to 400+ customers in 90+ countries
- **2024** — Company reached $15.8M in annual revenue with 280 employees
- **2025** — Launched Voice-Enabled AI Colleagues and AI Colleague Studio for enterprise agentic AI

## Achievements

- Built Leena AI's technology platform from scratch, now serving 400+ enterprise customers across 90+ countries
- Guided Leena AI through Y Combinator Summer 2018 batch
- Scaled engineering team from 1 to 110+ engineers
- Platform supports 100+ languages and serves 6 million+ employees globally
- Helped raise $38.13M in total funding including a $30M Series B from Bessemer Venture Partners
- Pioneered voice-enabled agentic AI colleagues for enterprise use (2025)
- Launched AI Colleague Studio - first-of-its-kind workspace for designing enterprise agentic AI
- Platform achieves ~40% autonomous resolution of employee queries at major enterprises
- Added voice capabilities to the platform despite no prior voice automation experience
- Leena AI reached $15.8M annual revenue in 2024

## Latest updates

- **2025-10** — Launched AI Colleague Studio - a workspace for designing, testing, and deploying enterprise-ready agentic AI colleagues
- **2025-07** — Released Voice-Enabled AI Colleagues, bringing natural voice interaction to enterprise back-office automation
- **2024-12** — Leena AI reached $15.8M in annual revenue with 280 employees and 400+ enterprise customers
- **2021-09** — Closed $30M Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Greycroft and B Capital Group

## Links

- Website: https://leena.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anand-prajapati-02951537

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Last updated: 2026-05-27