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Kris Canekeratne’s unfinished business
He helped build Virtusa by giving engineers harder problems to solve. Three decades after its founding, Kris Canekeratne is applying a familiar discipline to a new problem: making enterprise AI dependable.
Sanjiva Weerawarana and the value of coming home
He returned to Sri Lanka, co-founded WSO2 and helped turn open-source software into a $600 million business. After handing over the CEO role in May 2026, Sanjiva Weerawarana is putting more time into the institutions he built beyond it.
Tharindu Malawaraarachchi and the plan that changed
A hotel concierge product was the original idea. The work on the side became Fcode Labs’ main business - and gave its co-founder a different education in building a company.
WSO2 makes the connections you never see
A donor registry, a bank, an AI agent: each needs a safe way into someone else’s system. WSO2 has spent two decades building those doors.
Chamira Jayasinghe and the business of staying
A cricket broadcast opened the door. Games, robots and AI followed. Behind Arimac’s varied ambitions is Chamira Prasad Jayasinghe’s persistent question: what would give Sri Lankan talent a reason to build at home?
Buddhishan Manamperi looks past the green squares
Fcode Labs’ co-founder and co-CEO started in a room in his family home. Today, his public writing examines hiring, feedback, and how to give remote engineering teams room to think.
Yarl IT Hub Wants a Silicon Valley. Its Work Starts in the Classroom.
In Northern Sri Lanka, Yarl IT Hub connects school projects, coding scholarships and startup mentoring. The revealing part is what happens between the programs.
Saltside built the marketplaces. Then its rival came shopping.
The Swedish company behind ikman turned local classifieds into a business worth buying. Its journey through Bangladesh, Ghana and Nigeria shows what money can build - and what it cannot hurry.
Ten betting brands. One Amused Group.
Behind Bet Nation, BetDeluxe and eight other Australian wagering brands sits a Melbourne company with its own technology arm. Its bigger bet is on the people and software that can keep the whole portfolio moving.
Dialog Wants More Than Your Phone Bill
After absorbing Airtel Lanka, Sri Lanka’s telecom heavyweight is selling a bigger slice of connected life: home internet, television, business tools and payments. Its next test is making a costly 5G expansion earn its keep.
Sehan Sanjula Turned the Overnight Shift Into a Design Company
Zyner began with two laptops, months without a client and midnight calls from Colombo. Sehan Sanjula’s real product was not another design package - it was a way to make creative work arrive without the chase.
The Box Is the Business: How JF&I Packages the Global Supply Chain
The Sri Lankan manufacturer does more than print cartons. It engineers the folds, materials and regional supply chains that help global brands move products with less waste.
Fcode Labs
Fcode Labs is a Sri Lanka- and Singapore-based software engineering firm that builds AI-first digital products and provides dedicated remote engineering teams. Founded in 2018 by three University of Moratuwa graduates, it delivers digital transformation, machine learning, product engineering, cloud, and Web3 work for clients ranging from the Singapore Ministry of Health and University of Auckland to Sri Lanka's largest conglomerates. In 2026 it launched Forevate, a real-time market-intelligence product.
Neschae Fernando
Neschae Fernando is the CEO of Zone24x7, a 22-year-old technology engineering company headquartered in San Jose, California, with a major hub in Sri Lanka. With a dual background in electrical engineering (MS and BS from UCLA) and enterprise IT delivery at Cisco, Fernando leads a 270-person team that sits at a rare intersection: companies capable of integrating hardware and software end-to-end. Under his leadership since June 2022, Zone24x7 has won seven industry awards in 2025 alone, including Gold at NBQSA and the IoT Technology of the Year Award, while expanding its AI, RFID, and cognitive vision platforms across 50+ enterprise clients globally.
Chamath Palihapitiya
Chamath Palihapitiya is a Sri Lankan-Canadian-American venture capitalist, founder of Social Capital, and co-host of the All-In Podcast. A former VP of User Growth at Facebook who helped scale the platform from 50M to 700M+ users, he left to build one of Silicon Valley's most distinctive investment firms. Known for contrarian takes, a welfare-to-billionaire origin story, and pioneering the 'growth hacking' playbook, he now manages $2.147B in AUM while running a top-ranked Substack newsletter and co-hosting one of tech's most listened-to podcasts.