# Hana Mohan

> Hana Mohan is a Barcelona-based software founder and engineer behind SupportBee and MagicBell. Her earlier music community, Muziboo, supplied the customer-support problem that led to SupportBee; notification work there later led to MagicBell, which joined Y Combinator’s Winter 2021 batch. She writes about software businesses, founder independence and workplace equality.

- **Role:** Co-founder & CEO at SupportBee; Co-founder & CEO at MagicBell
- **Organizations:** SupportBee, MagicBell, Muziboo, Y Combinator, Tejas Networks, Bandspeed
- **Education:** Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
- **Known for:** Built Muziboo into a music community with more than 500,000 members., Bootstrapped SupportBee to approximately $45,000 in monthly recurring revenue by her 2020 interview., Co-founded MagicBell, a Y Combinator Winter 2021 company.

## Career timeline

- **2005** — Graduated from IIT Guwahati; subsequently worked at Tejas Networks and Bandspeed.
- **2007** — Co-founded Muziboo with Nithya Rajaram.
- **2011** — Began building SupportBee with Nithya Rajaram.
- **2012** — SupportBee launched publicly.
- **2015** — SupportBee became fully remote.
- **2020** — Reported approximately 450 SupportBee customers and $45,000 in monthly recurring revenue; co-founded MagicBell with Josue Montano and launched it on Product Hunt in November.
- **2021** — MagicBell participated in Y Combinator Winter 2021; a September interview discussed a $1.9 million round.
- **2022** — Reported approximately 100 MagicBell paying customers in July; wrote about a Connect Ventures founder retreat in Noto.

## Achievements

- Built Muziboo into a music community with more than 500,000 members.
- Bootstrapped SupportBee to approximately $45,000 in monthly recurring revenue by her 2020 interview.
- Co-founded MagicBell, a Y Combinator Winter 2021 company.
- Became the first openly transgender woman to go through Y Combinator.

## Latest updates

- **2025-06** — Her personal blog published “5 Valuable Lessons Learned From Building B2B SaaS” and “Why Women Starting Small Businesses Are the Key to Workplace Gender Equality”; publication dates do not establish when the underlying events occurred.
- **2026-10** — At research time, SupportBee’s official About page listed her as Founder & CEO and based in Barcelona; her GitHub bio listed CEO at MagicBell and co-founder at SupportBee.

## Links

- Website: https://www.unamashana.blog/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/unamashana/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/unamashana
- GitHub: https://github.com/unamashana

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Last updated: 2026-10-14