# Sashi Narahari

> Sashi Narahari is the Houston-based founder and CEO of HighRadius, an enterprise software company serving finance teams. A mechanical engineering graduate of IIT Madras and the University of Maryland and former Riversand CEO, he founded HighRadius in 2006, bootstrapped until its 2017 institutional funding round, and has since advocated autonomous finance and pricing tied to customer outcomes.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO at HighRadius
- **Organizations:** HighRadius, Riversand Technologies
- **Education:** B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park
- **Known for:** Built HighRadius from its 2006 founding through eleven years before its first institutional funding round., HighRadius had more than 350 clients when it raised $50 million in 2017., Led HighRadius when its March 2021 funding round valued the company at $3.1 billion.

## Career timeline

- **1998** — Began his career as an SAP consultant after completing mechanical engineering studies.
- **Before 2006** — Served as CEO of Riversand Technologies, a master data management software company.
- **2006** — Founded HighRadius.
- **2011** — Decided to rewrite the SAP ABAP codebase on a cloud stack, according to his 2026 retrospective.
- **2017** — HighRadius raised its first institutional round: $50 million from Susquehanna Growth Equity.
- **2020** — HighRadius raised $125 million in Series B funding, reaching a valuation above $1 billion.
- **2021** — HighRadius announced a $300 million Series C at a $3.1 billion valuation on March 30.
- **2026** — Presented outcome-based pricing and Algo Quotient at Radiance 2026.

## Achievements

- Built HighRadius from its 2006 founding through eleven years before its first institutional funding round.
- HighRadius had more than 350 clients when it raised $50 million in 2017.
- Led HighRadius when its March 2021 funding round valued the company at $3.1 billion.
- Named an EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2020 Gulf Coast Area Award finalist.

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — Radiance 2026 keynote presented outcome-based pricing with no implementation or subscription fees until go-live and gain sharing afterward, alongside Algo Quotient and faster implementation ambitions.
- **2026-03** — Spoke at the DFCG Finance & AI dinner in Paris on March 3 about AI, finance skills and outcome-based pricing.

## Links

- Website: https://www.highradius.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sashi-narahari

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Last updated: 2026-10-26