Akshaya Ranganathan

Overview

Co-founder & COO of Indigo Labs, working on supply chain software. Grew the team to 20 people across 5 countries. Before that: Tech Mahindra and Google. Weekend cricket, weekday chai.

Experience

1. Co-founder & COO

   Nov 2025 - Present
   Indigo Labs · 11 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
   • Signed 260 paying customers, 3 of them enterprises.
   • Grew the team to 89 people across 2 countries.
   • Took Indigo Labs from zero to $10 million ARR.
2. Principal Product Manager

   Mar 2024 - Nov 2025
   Tech Mahindra · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
   • Sit on 5 boards.
   • Led or co-led 29 investments, 2 of them now at Series B or later.
3. Group Product Manager

   Jul 2021 - Mar 2024
   Google · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
   • Grew lending revenue from $2 million to $18 million ARR.
   • Took lending activation from 34% to 49% in three quarters.
4. Associate Product Manager

   May 2018 - Jul 2021
   Atlassian · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
   • Took lending activation from 25% to 45% in three quarters.
   • Cut time-to-first-value for new lending customers from 18 days to 4.
5. Senior Product Manager

   Feb 2016 - May 2018
   HCLTech · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
   • Launched the lending product in 13 markets.

Projects

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Education

1. IIIT Bangalore

   M.Tech, Economics
   2006 - 2008
2. IIIT Hyderabad

   B.Tech, Economics
   2001 - 2005