# Raviteja Dodda

> Raviteja Dodda is the co-founder and CEO of MoEngage, an insights-led customer engagement platform used by more than 1,200 consumer brands. He started the company in 2014 with his IIT Kharagpur classmate Yashwanth Kumar after a failed local-offers app made it painfully clear that marketers had the data but no way to act on it. A decade later MoEngage runs Merlin AI, a suite of AI agents for marketing teams, and just closed a $280M Series F led by Goldman Sachs and ChrysCapital.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at MoEngage
- **Organizations:** MoEngage, Pipal Tech Ventures (DelightCircle), Cisco Systems, Google (GSoC)
- **From:** India
- **Nationality:** Indian
- **Education:** B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
- **Known for:** Built MoEngage to 1,200+ consumer brand customers including some of the world's largest B2C companies, Raised over $410M in total funding for MoEngage, Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia, Enterprise Tech, 2016

## Career timeline

- **2008-2009** — Google Summer of Code student, two years contributing to open source
- **2010** — Graduated IIT Kharagpur with B.Tech in CSE
- **2010-2011** — Software engineer at Cisco Systems
- **2011** — Co-founded Pipal Tech Ventures; launched DelightCircle / SaveZippy, a mobile-first local offers network in India
- **2014** — Co-founded MoEngage with Yashwanth Kumar in Bengaluru
- **2016** — Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia, Enterprise Tech
- **2018** — Named to BW Disrupt 40 Under 40
- **2022** — Goldman Sachs first invests in MoEngage
- **2025-11** — Closed $100M Series F led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives and A91 Partners
- **2025-12** — Series F extended with an additional $180M from Goldman Sachs and ChrysCapital, total round $280M

## Achievements

- Built MoEngage to 1,200+ consumer brand customers including some of the world's largest B2C companies
- Raised over $410M in total funding for MoEngage
- Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia, Enterprise Tech, 2016
- BW Disrupt 40 Under 40, 2018
- Two-time Google Summer of Code participant
- Grew North America to more than 30% of MoEngage's revenue
- Launched Merlin AI, an agentic AI suite for marketing teams

## Latest updates

- **2025-12** — MoEngage Series F extended by $180M with participation from Goldman Sachs and ChrysCapital, total round reaching $280M.
- **2025-11** — Closed $100M Series F led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives and A91 Partners; funds earmarked for Merlin AI and North America / EMEA expansion.

## Links

- Website: https://moengage.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rteja/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/raviteja2007
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/raviteja2007/

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