# Aravind Gopalan

> Aravind Gopalan is the co-founder and CEO of Growfin, an enterprise accounts-receivable automation company. After co-founding the social recommendation startup Frilp, selling it to Freshworks in 2015, and helping build and scale Freshteam, he left in 2020 with longtime collaborator Raja Jayaraman. More than 200 conversations and 300 hours of customer discovery led them to a neglected problem: booked revenue often gets trapped between invoices, spreadsheets, email, sales teams, and finance systems. Growfin was built to make that journey from invoice to cash more visible, collaborative, and increasingly automated.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Growfin
- **Organizations:** Growfin, Freshworks, Frilp (Turing Research Labs)
- **Education:** Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science, College of Engineering Guindy, Chennai
- **Known for:** Co-founded Frilp, which was acquired by Freshworks in 2015., Built and scaled Freshteam, Freshworks' HR management product, from the ground up as a senior product leader., Co-founded Growfin after more than 200 interviews and 300 hours of customer discovery with finance professionals.

## Career timeline

- **2011** — Worked as a software developer at GlobalScholar.
- **2012** — Co-founded social recommendation startup Frilp with Raja Jayaraman and three other co-founders.
- **2015** — Frilp was acquired by Freshworks; Gopalan joined Freshworks in product management.
- **2015-2020** — Worked as a senior product leader at Freshworks, building and scaling Freshteam and working on FreshID.
- **2020** — Left Freshworks with Raja Jayaraman and began researching a new startup idea.
- **2021** — After more than 300 hours of finance-team discovery, Growfin came alive and signed early customers.
- **2022** — Growfin launched publicly and announced a $1.4 million seed round led by 3one4 Capital.
- **2023** — Growfin raised a $7.5 million Series A led by SWC Global, with participation from 3one4 Capital and angels.
- **2025** — Growfin announced an AI-powered order-to-cash partnership with Zuora.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Frilp, which was acquired by Freshworks in 2015.
- Built and scaled Freshteam, Freshworks' HR management product, from the ground up as a senior product leader.
- Co-founded Growfin after more than 200 interviews and 300 hours of customer discovery with finance professionals.
- Raised a $1.4 million seed round for Growfin in 2022 and a $7.5 million Series A in 2023.
- Growfin reported eightfold growth in customers and revenue in the 12 months preceding its March 2023 Series A.
- Led Growfin into a 2025 partnership with Zuora focused on AI-powered order-to-cash workflows.

## Latest updates

- **2025-08** — Growfin and Zuora announced a partnership combining Growfin's AI-native accounts-receivable automation with Zuora's monetization platform for an AI-powered order-to-cash solution.
- **2025-08** — Gopalan published an article explaining Growfin's view that collections, cash application, forecasting, and billing should be treated as one connected cycle.
- **2025-07** — Gopalan appeared in the first episode of Growfin's Heroes of AR series to discuss accounts receivable as a strategic finance function and the role of agentic AI.

## Links

- Website: https://www.growfin.ai/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aravindgopalan/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/_aravindgopalan
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5Fe6GsCwU0

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Last updated: 2026-08-17