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Vijay Yalamanchili
Vijay Yalamanchili is the founder and CEO of Keka HR, a Hyderabad-born HR and payroll software company he built after growing frustrated with the clunky HR tools on the market. An engineer by training with earlier startups behind him, he bootstrapped Keka for roughly six years before raising a $57 million round from WestBridge Capital in 2022, reported at the time as India's largest Series A for a SaaS company. Keka now serves thousands of organizations and processes payroll for millions of employees each month, built around a focus on employee experience and disciplined, profit-led growth.
Sourabh Gupta
Sourabh Gupta is the co-founder and CEO of Skit.ai, the New York-headquartered voice AI company he started in 2016 with Akshay Deshraj as Vernacular.ai, straight out of IIT Roorkee. Skit builds an augmented voice intelligence platform used by contact centers and collections teams, and has raised roughly $30M across rounds including a $23M Series B led by WestBridge Capital in 2021. Gupta was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia (2021).