Sramana Mitra: How big is the team? Anand Mahurkar: We are about 170 people. We leap to 200 worldwide next quarter. Sramana Mitra: What is the distribution? Anand Mahurkar: The largest population is in India – about 90. Sramana Mitra: Where in India?
Sramana Mitra: Fantastic. In all the different use cases that you have applied Findability, what are some of the most powerful use cases that warrant productization as solutions? Anand Mahurkar: Post-pandemic, we are seeing self-reliance on multiple business processes. One is the supply chain because of the disruption in the market by the pandemic. We
Sramana Mitra: What year did you get funding? Anand Mahurkar: Late 2017. Sramana Mitra: This was after how long from founding? Anand Mahurkar: About six years. Sramana Mitra: You had substantial revenue already?
Sramana Mitra: In launching this company, did you bootstrap? How did you get the company off the ground? Anand Mahurkar: It was bootstrapped. I had a $10,000 bank account. Probably we are the only enterprise AI company that is profitable and revenue-making with no debt. I bootstrapped all these years. I got my first customer
I always love doing stories of my readers. Anand has been following the blog since 2010. He has built a terrific, fundamentals-focused AI company. And I am thrilled. Sramana Mitra: Let’s go to the beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where were you born, and raised, and in what kind of background?