At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Karnataka based CEO’ operating in the CRM space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Shivakumar Ganesan
Co-Founder & CEO of Exotel
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About Exotel: Exotel is a SaaS company with full stack customer engagement, including contact center software, communications API, and conversational AI.

Ajay Prabhu
CEO of KVP Business Solutions
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About KVP Business Solutions: Salesforce Implementation Partner / Ruby on Rails Developers
Vinay Agrrawal
Founder and CEO of Hubler
Though his dream is to build new companies every minute, Vinay busies himself by running day-to-day operations at Hubler. His favorite thing about being an entrepreneur is solving complex ideas and distilling them into new businesses. In fact, he’s transformed companies to unlock immediate gains by at least 75% YoY growth without sacrificing on his fitness routine. Driven by his love for innovating, he led the creation, and subsequent acquisition, of his company Unicel Technologies – a leading enterprise cloud communication solutions provider. Not only is he a pro at creating high performance organizations, he also advises businesses on product roadmap and delivering world class solutions. – – Vinay attended Symbiosis (Pune) before moving to the telecom sector. From banking OTPs to your product orders; finding unique ways to deliver messages that matter to people and businesses.
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About Hubler: Hublerhelps enterprises automate their business processes into web & mobile apps in 24 hours without writing a single line of code.
Divyanshu Singh
Co-Founder and CEO of Glamplus
Divyanshu Singh is the Co-Founder and CEO of Glamplus.
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About Glamplus, HuntHelp: Glamplus is a SAAS enabled beauty marketplace for salons and spas in the SMB segment.
Aniket Thakur
Founder and CEO of eSthenos Technologies
Aniket Thakur is the founder and CEO of eSthenos Technologies.
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About eSthenos Technologies: ESthenos Technologies is an efficient and customer centric fin-tech platform for financial institutions.
Sheshgiri Kamath
CEO & Co-Founder of Adjetter Media Network
Sheshgiri Kamath is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kapture CRM. He is also the Co-founder of Adjetter Media Network.
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About Adjetter Media Network, Kapture CRM: Adjetter Media Network is the creators of KaptureCRM, a end to end sales, marketing, operations and customer service automation suite.

Sudip Dutta
Founder & CEO of Relatas – Sales AI
Founder & CEO at Relatas
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About Relatas – Sales AI: Relatas is Sales AI to help sales professionals sell better and faster

Soumitra Paul
Chief Executive Officer of PlayBook AI
Founder of Wisely, Two failed start ups- 1 in education, another in Aviation.
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About PlayBook AI: Playbook AI provides an omnichannel sales acceleration platform that analyzes the behavior of prospective customers using machine learning.
Jayesh Gowda Gangadhara
Co-Founder & CEO of Acrobee India Private Limited
Jayesh Gowda Gangadhara is the co-founder and CEO of Acrobee India.
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About Acrobee India Private Limited: Analytics , AI & Machine Learning
Jayanth Varma
Founder & CEO of SocView
Jayanth Varma is the founder and chief executive officer of SocView.
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About SocView: SocView is an integrated security operations platform that manages multiple security processes within one centralized console.