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 Enterprise 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.

Chaitanya M. Kamat
Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of Oracle
Chet Kamat is the Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Oracle.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.

Aneesh Reddy
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Capillary Technologies
Aneesh Reddy is the co-founder & Chief Executive Officer at Capillary Technologies. With his global vision and focused mentorship, Aneesh leads a team that helps enterprise customers engage with their consumers intelligently, delivering personalized communications to the right consumers at the right time. Aneesh is a featured expert at global retail, marketing, and technology forums and works closely with acclaimed institutions towards creating a sustained product ecosystem in India. He is also a featured entrepreneur in leading publications such as Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and The Economic Times. He is also an Independent Director at HR technology firm Darwinbox. Prior to founding Capillary, Aneesh worked with ITC Limited and was involved in their facility management division. Aneesh holds a Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
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About Capillary Technologies: Capillary Technologies develops customized and cloud-based customer analytics marketing platforms for retailers and consumer businesses.
Lalit Bhise
CEO & Co-Founder of Bizom
Lalit is a mobility veteran and invented hybrid mobile programming. He has a patent in visual merchandising using image recognition. He has built more than 150 products over 17 years and knows the FMCG/CPG industry in and out by working with market leaders for 5 years. Lalit is, quite simply put, the heart of Mobisy. “Billion Dollar Bhise”, as he is fondly called, is the epitome of hustle! A rare combination of geek and salesman!
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About Bizom: Bizom is the Retail Intelligence Platform of choice for brands and their retailers.

Deepesh Agarwal
Co-Founder & CEO of MoveInSync
He has worked for 10 years in wireless communication and ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems). His last job was with Motorola, India as Engineering Manager. He was instrumental in the design of MOTODRIVE, a futuristic vehicle to infrastructure (road network) integration for US Department of Transportation. He played an important role in bringing Location Based Services on Motorola handsets in India. Deepesh has an MBA from Indian School of Business (ISB), majoring in Entrepreneurship. and B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology – Banaras Hindu University Varanasi
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About MoveInSync: MoveInSync is in the business of organizing transportation for India. The company has built a transport management
Padma Duraiswamy
Founder and CEO of Chimera Technologies Pvt Ltd
Padma Duraiswamy is the founder and CEO of Chimera Technologies.
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About Chimera Technologies Pvt Ltd: Chimera is a outsource product development company that helps more than 170+ clients across the globe; with focus on FinTech, HRTech & more.
Shyamal Kumar
Founder & CEO of Lavelle Networks
Shyamal Kumar is a networking product leader, and has led several platforms spanning data center, enterprise, and service provider networks. He is passionate about embracing SDN and cloud technologies to bring simplicity and performance to data networks. Having started his career with the venerable FreeBSD TCP/IP stack, to the current NFV platforms, he has been instrumental in breakthrough product lines like the Juniper MX. He also brought the initial generation of wireless broad band platforms in the world, through the Telsima WiMAX portfolio. Back in 2001, he was a key member of Inkra Networks, building the industry’s first virtual services switch, which had zero down time over years of network upgrades, due to its pioneering dynamically linked modular system architecture. As Co-Founder & CEO of Lavelle Networks (www.lavellenetworks.com), in his current endeavor, his team has brought to market SD-WAN products. In a short time-frame, Lavelle Networks has received rapid market adoption, and is building one of the world’s largest SD-WAN rollouts in 2017. He is a graduate of BITS, Pilani and has been in the data networking space for the last 18 years leading products at Tata Elxsi, Juniper Networks, Inkra Networks, Telsima Communications, Riverstone Networks, NetContinuum and Versa Networks among other companies.
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About Lavelle Networks: Lavelle Networks provides Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions to build end to end Enterprise Networking Platforms for tomorrow

Aniketh Jain
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Solutions Infini
Aniketh Jain is the co-founder and CEO of Solutions Infini Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.,one of the largest cloud based enterprise messaging and communications companies in India. Aniketh handles the business aspects of Solutions Infini, from building strategic partnerships, liaising with network operators and regulatory authorities, spearheading marketing and driving sales to brainstorming and inventing new products, he does it all with élan. He setup Solutions Infini along with Ashish Agarwal in 2009, soon after graduating in Computer Applications. His business acumen accompanies by Ashish’s technical prowess has helped Solutions Infini metamorphose radically from being a 5-member team to a 100-member, competitive enterprise communications company in a short span of 5 years. His forte lies in business administration, strategic leadership, interpersonal and communication skills and his technical knowledge. He has taken part in a number of panel discussions, especially at events conducted by IAMAI and JITO. Aniketh was also a keynote speaker at the recently held JITO Connect 2014 and JITO Coimbatore 2014 events. Aniketh has also been on several delegations conducted by NASSCOM to Africa and was also a key part of the Mobile World Congress at Barcelona this year. He is an active member of ‘TIE’ – The Indus Entrepreneur, Bangalore Chapter. He is a theatre enthusiast, likes to travel and cook and enjoys sporting activities.
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About Kaleyra, Solutions Infini: Multi channel Global Cloud Communications Platform
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.

Aditya Bhagat
CEO & Co-founder of Bankbuddy.ai
Aditya Bhagat is the CEO and co-founder of bankbuddy.ai. He is a seasoned business management professional with 20 years of experience in financial services & technology across all continents.
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About : Financial Technology providing Artificial Intelligence solutions to help FI’s Automate, Analyze & Assist stakeholder interactions
Kiran Menon
CEO & Co-Founder of Tydy
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About Tydy: Tydy is an experience automation platform to manage onboarding, transitions, and offboarding of employees.

Arunkumar Venkataramanan
CEO and CTO of DeepBrainz AI
Arunkumar is an AI Entrepreneur, Innovator, Founder, CEO, CTO, CDO/ AI Chief, Product Manager and Architect of DeepBrainz AI, a DPIIT recognized Bangalore based AI technology startup company, a modern integrated human-centered autonomous enterprise AI platform for builders and business decision-maker, a Google Cloud Technology Partner, NVIDIA Inception member. He has been a Board Chairman and Managing Director of DeepBrainz Technologies Private Limited since Nov 18, 2019. He is an experienced ML Practitioner, Software Engineer, Data Scientist, Cloud Software Architect, AI Researcher with over eight years of experience in the AI field across industries. He is also a Kaggle Master, MIT Technology Review Global Panelist, HBR Ascend Select Member, TensorFlow Research Cloud Participant, PSF Board Member Nominee (2020), YC Startup School Certified, TiE Member, and a part of various other startups (partner) programs and developers (tech) communities. His mission is to build, advance, democratize responsible/human-centered AI for everyone, innovating the status quo of AI/ML technology and envisioning new products that matter most in the industries and markets. He was also an Cloud AI Consultant, also known as a Software Architect working with Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Data Mining, Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics & Modeling, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Robotics, and General AI AGI independently as well as at stealth startup and DeepBrainz AI since His graduation. He founded DeepBrainz AI that is a DPIIT Recognised AI Tech Startup being a Founding Member of an AI Unit and has been solving various business and real-world problems across industries vertically as well as horizontally by Cutting-edge Technologies and the State of the art AI in the fields of Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing NLP. He has designed, developed, tested, deployed, maintained, and improved Machine Learning ML models, algorithms, systems, and ML infrastructure and software that uses these models. He wants to deliver state-of-the-art responsible AI and machine learning solutions with greater impact that solves business problems and complex technical challenges using novel statistical analysis and modeling as data science solutions to business problems. He has also got experience with Research & Development Work (R&D) on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning and related areas such as Computer Vision, NLP, Robotics, and General AI AGI at DeepBrainz AI BRAIN, an AI R&D Team and Project of DeepBrainz, A DPIIT Recognised AI Initiative. His passions range from Technology to Entrepreneurship (Leadership and Management). He’s also passionate about and Computer Science, Engineering, Technology, Innovation, Research and Development, Product and Design, Organisational Leadership (Tech), Business, Strategy, Scalability, and Technology Startup, Programming, Artificial Intelligence AI, Machine Learning ML, Deep Learning, including other emerging technologies like Quantum Computing, Blockchain, Cloud and Distributed Computing. He hopes that will further advance tomorrow’s state-of-the-art responsible AI with DeepBrainz AI (formerly DeepBrainz Intelligent Systems) (An AI Team Project), A Future Revolutionary Technology Startup Influencing Industries by Building Cutting-edge Technologies and Advancing State-of-the-art (Status quo of the field) for “Empowering Humanity Universally” through R&D, Innovation and Breakthroughs. Above all, with the skill called LEARNABILITY and Growth Mindset for upskilling or acquiring necessary skills of all Emerging Technologies Markets to pursue his DREAMS through Mission Vision and (Core) Values, Strategy, Objectives and Key Results, Execution, Technology, Business, Strategies and Policies. One of his objectives is as follows, “To be an asset to the organization by working with core values such as passion, purpose, honesty, determination and have challenges as his duty and opportunity to achieve professional and personal growth along with the organization.” He’s an Objectivist, Innovator & Influencer, and also has a current journey as an Entrepreneur & an alumnus of Cambridge School & Anna University who graduated B.Tech in 2014 focussed Information Technology (Computer Science and Engineering). He was also 49th Kaggle Kernels Master stood Top 1% and Top 50 in the World’s largest Data Science and Machine Learning Community. He’s got over 13k+ followers on LinkedIn as of today. He has been working on DeepBrainz AGI, a futuristic long-term independent AI research project as an AI Chief Research Scientist, Machine Learning Software Engineer, Data Scientist – ML Algorithms, Hacker, Open Source Developer, Independent Software Engineer, Freelancer. He is also a Deep Reinforcement Learning Enthusiast. He is writing the book called Hands-on Deep Reinforcement Learning with Python and AutoML will be released by one of the top publishers soon. He is consistently working with the cutting-edge technologies such as Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and related areas, developing RL agents using Deep Reinforcement Learning and using Python for Scientific computing, Data Analysis, Machine Learning (Deep learning).
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About DeepBrainz AI, Harvard Business Review, MIT’s Technology Review Magazine, Python Software Foundation: AI technology company delivering a next-gen human-centered enterprise AI cloud platform as edge-to-cloud ai services for business users

Arun Ramu
Founder & CEO ( AUS ) of Avekshaa Technologies
Arun is an industry veteran with over 30 years of technical and management experience in the field of IT products and services, having played various roles from Software Engineer to Account Manager and from Business Unit head to CEO across the globe. Prior to Avekshaa, he was VP, Business Unit Head and Management Council member at Infosys Technologies. Arun is considered a pioneering force in creating and nurturing the Indian Testing industry and has hands-on experience of building a flourishing Independent Testing practice from ground up at Infosys. He has served as the first President of the SteP-IN (Software Test Practitioners of India) for two continuous terms. Prior to Infosys, Arun has worked at Trigent Software Ltd (a start-up) and Tata Unisys (now Tata Consultancy Services).
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About Avekshaa Technologies: Avekshaa Technologies is a next generation Specialized IT solutions company,

Rajinder Gandotra
Founder & CEO of Avekshaa Technologies
Rajinder Gandotra is a Founder Partner at Avekshaa. He was formerly an Associate Vice President, Principal Technical Architect and Management Council Member at Infosys Technologies. While at Infosys Rajinder envisioned and built the Performance Engineering Practice which has successfully delivered 200+ engagements, including 20 critical risk projects. These projects delivered significant savings (90% of the applications have seen > 40% improvement in response time or utilization reduction) and won several awards including Top2 Technology Excellence awards. He has been the driver for thought leadership in this area and his team has published 20+ papers in this space. Rajinder was also responsible in building the Technology Consulting Practice for Finacle (Infosys’ Universal Banking solution) and setting-up its product benchmarking practice. Rajinder is an engineering Graduate in Electronics and Communication.
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About Avekshaa Technologies: Avekshaa Technologies is a next generation Specialized IT solutions company,

Saikiran Chandha
Founder and CEO of Typeset
Saikiran Chandha is the Founder and CEO of Typeset.
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About Typeset: Create, collaborate and consume Research in an easy way!

Sarma BKP
Founder & CEO of Agilean Solutions Private Limited
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About Agilean Solutions Private Limited, StandupMeet: Agilean solutions is B2B enterprise software automation tools to enhance organizational productivity and enable automation.

CHERUKU SRIKANTH
Founder & CEO of IDOS – DIGITAL CFO
He is an entrepreneur with two decades of experience in bookkeeping, accounting, audit, internal controls, business process & systems and business intelligence reporting. He started his professional career at PricewaterhouseCoopers and was involved in audit and accounting of multiple companies across different industry segments. He was even involved in setting up of accounting & internal control systems for Companies.Thereafter worked with two small audit firms in Bangalore for 5 years, before commencing his own accounting services business. Prior to IDOS, was the one of the founders of a KPO business providing financial and legal services to clients in US as well as India. Srikanth handled multiple assignments involving, bookkeeping, BI, internal audit, due diligence, setting up of accounting systems and process for companies of different sizes and belonging to variety of industry segments. IDOS was conceived and created by Srikanth along with his partner Alexander Reife, in the process of finding cost effective & efficient solutions for many of our bookkeeping & accounting clients in India, United States, South America, South East Asia and Middle East for organisations.
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About : Accounting & Financial management software platform

Rivi Varghese
Founder & CEO of Clari5 (CustomerXPs)
Rivi Varghese co-founded the company after a long stint in the IT products industry. His vision of the need for a ‘human brain’ like central nervous system in banks for fighting financial crime led to the creation of the company’s flagship Clari5 banking product. Under his stewardship Clari5 has been voted ‘Best Fraud Detection Product‘ by Risk.net and positioned as an enterprise solution in Chartis RiskTech Quadrant. Rivi has spent over 22 years perfecting the end-to-end art of conceiving, delivering, marketing and selling new products. Rivi has significant international experience across 25+ countries – a rich blend of advanced and emerging markets. He has interacted extensively with the senior leadership of more than 250 banks and was instrumental in opening new markets for these products. During his stint at Infosys’ Finacle as Head of Product Management -Delivery Channels, he conceptualized and delivered 12 pioneering products which continue to be used by leading banks globally –leading to some banks receiving global acclaim. As an omnichannel expert, he has enabled banking in all possible channels. Rivi is an MBA from IIM-Bangalore and a B-Tech from IIT-BHU.
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About Clari5 (CustomerXPs): Global Category Leader in Banking Products for Enterprise Financial Crime Management
Kushagra Sinha
CEO & Co-Founder of Jiny.io
Hi, I’m a User Experience Researcher, Designer, and Entrepreneur, passionate about User Centered Design Innovation. I believe in the power of Design for problem-solving and enabling growth through value creation. Besides, I’ve interests spread across multiple domains. I’m a music lover, a pianist, and a guitarist. I love to make charcoal paintings. I’m a cricket buff and have played club cricket for 5 years. I have a keen interest in World History, International Affairs, Politics and Political Philosophy. I’m a thinker and can have engaging discussions in these domains for hours.
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About Jiny.io: SaaS, Vernacular, Mobile, Guide
Amarnath Chowdary Panguluru
CEO of Modefin
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About Modefin: Leading Digital Solution Provider for Bank, Financial Institutes, Telco and Government
Subrahmanya Rao Nattoja Shyara
Founder and CEO of Discover Dollar
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About Discover Dollar: Discover Dollar helps enterprises identify overpayments and revenue leakages by analyzing 50+ data sources including ERP, emails & contracts
Ranjani Rao
CEO of Boston Technology Corporation (BTC)
Ranjani Rao is a thought leader with an extensive background delivering innovative and cutting edge technology solutions. She specializes in driving new initiatives, defining technology direction, and managing global teams. Her mantra is ‘Keep it Simple and Elegant’. Before Boston Technology Corporation, Ranjani held positions at Perot Systems and Fidelity Investments.
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About Boston Technology Corporation (BTC), Boston Technology Corporation (BTC): Provides IT and digital technology services to traditional healthcare organizations and ‘Digital Health’ startups.
Thomas Raja
Co-Founder & CEO of Redmonk Technologies
Thomas was Ex – VP Citibank and spent close to 13 years across various roles and geographies. He is passionate about Rock music,books,Fitness & wildlife.
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About Redmonk Technologies: Manages the development & distribution of Bric app’s consumer and enterprise versions.
Shoaib Mohammed
Co-Founder and CEO of CustomFit.ai
Shoaib Mohammed is the Co-Founder and CTO at CustomFit.ai.
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About CustomFit.ai: CustomFit.ai transforms your website/app into #1 Growth Engine / #1 Salesperson by personalizing for each visitor.
Ashwin Kumar
Co-Founder and CEO of CustomFit.ai
Ashwin Kumar is the Co-Founder and CEO at CustomFit.ai.
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About CustomFit.ai: CustomFit.ai transforms your website/app into #1 Growth Engine / #1 Salesperson by personalizing for each visitor.

Ganesh Yala
CEO of IntensAquatica
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About IntensAquatica: IntensAquatica helps business owners and entrepreneurs to start/manage/grow their business.
Abhijit Das
CEO and Founder of Madgeek
Abhijit Das is the CEO and Founder at Madgeek.
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About Madgeek: Madgeek Pvt Ltd is an offshore software development, Ecommerce Web & Mobile App Development company headquartered in Bangalore India.

Chandrashekhar BC
CEO & Co-founder of Bionworks
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About Bionworks: Workflow driven mobile EMR, patient engagement and CRM for enterprise healthcare providers

Shrikrishna Hegde
CEO & Founder of ConnectFarmer
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About ConnectFarmer: The purpose of connectfarmer is to connect farmers, cottage industry, small scale industries, rural entrepreneurs with consumers, We

Nizamudheen Valliayattu
CEO & Founder of Toolyt
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About Toolyt: Increase Field Force Productivity by 40%

Rakesh Tergundi
CEO and Co-Founder of Bizmobile IT Solutions
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About Bizmobile IT Solutions: Bizmobile IT Solutions is a mobile and cloud platform with ready to use last mile apps.

Arunangshu Hazra
Director, CEO of Pinprep
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About : A system to collaborate Learning, Knowledge, Skills and Career.