WorkSpan is the leading partner ecosystem management platform, built to eliminate the 'Partner Complexity Tax' that prevents enterprise sales teams from leveraging strategic partnerships. Founded in 2015 by three IIT Bombay alumni, the platform connects 15,000 companies, manages $542B in co-sell pipeline, and has emerged as the #1 co-sell solution partner for AWS and Microsoft. With the 2025 launch of WorkSpan AI - deploying intelligent agents directly inside sellers' CRMs - the company is betting that the next decade of enterprise revenue growth runs through ecosystem partnerships, not just direct sales.
Trunal Bhanse is the CEO and co-founder of Clazar, a San Francisco-based cloud GTM automation platform that simplifies how SaaS companies sell through AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud marketplaces. Before founding Clazar in 2023, he spent years scaling cloud infrastructure at Airbnb (Engineering Manager, Homes Host team) and Confluent (Director of Engineering, Lifecycle & Cloud Partnerships), where he experienced firsthand the pain of building marketplace integrations from scratch. Clazar raised $10M in Series A funding in April 2024 led by Ridge Ventures and Ensemble VC, and now serves 250+ customers including Supabase, Atlan, and Rootly.
Mayank Bawa is the CEO and co-founder of WorkSpan, the leading Ecosystem Business Management platform that manages over $50 billion in joint pipeline for the world's top technology companies. Before WorkSpan, he co-founded Aster Data Systems - a Big Data pioneer acquired by Teradata for $325 million in 2011. Armed with a PhD from Stanford and a B.Tech from IIT Bombay (where he ranked 4th in the national entrance exam), Bawa has spent his career building category-defining companies at the intersection of data, automation, and enterprise collaboration. WorkSpan's Series D funding in 2025 marked the company's pivot toward AI-powered partnership automation, with 15,000 companies on its network.