Akshaya Srinivasan

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Co-founder & CTO at Sprout Security | ex-Uber

Sprout Security
Hyderabad, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
9+ years experience
IIIT Bangalore
English, Hindi, Telugu
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Overview

Building Sprout Security in Hyderabad - AI agents for operations teams. Previously built and sold a small AI agents for operations teams company. Before that: Uber and SAP. Most at home with product and LLMs. Swimming before work keeps me sane.

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  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
  • Investors who back our stage and sector
  • Working sessions on automation
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  • Offshore staffing offers
  • Fundraising consultants

Slower in the last week of each quarter

Skills
automationB2B SaaSproductLLMsfundraising
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Pre-seed round open - API security for community banks, $6M ARR

Stage
Pre-seed
Raising
$6M
Instrument
SAFE
Committed so far
$192k from operators in the space
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
$6M ARR after 12 months
Use of funds
Engineering hires and the first sales team

$6M ARR after 12 months. Looking for investors who know proptech and can help with regulatory approvals.

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HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

Sprout Security is hiring 5 founding engineers in Hyderabad

Role
Founding engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
₹18-70 LPA
Team
Founding team, 9 people
Start
Within two months
Must have
Production experience with B2B SaaS Production experience with automation Clear written communication
Process
Intro call, technical deep dive, team chat

Comp ₹45-51 LPA. Four conversations, no take-home. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

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Experience

  1. Co-founder & CTO
    May 2024 - Present
    Sprout Security · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Took Sprout Security from zero to $4 million ARR.
    • Grew the team to 97 people across 3 countries.
    • Raised $18 million across 3 rounds.
  2. Group Product Manager
    Jul 2021 - May 2024
    Uber · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Launched the platform product in 14 markets.
    • Killed 5 features nobody used and shipped the 3 that customers asked for.
  3. Associate Product Manager
    May 2019 - Jul 2021
    SAP · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Ran 164 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
  4. Senior Product Manager
    Oct 2017 - May 2019
    Bosch · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new platform customers from 17 days to 3.

Projects

Open-source fundraising toolkit
2024

A small library for AI agents for operations teams that 361 developers star on GitHub.

Conference talk: lessons from company
2022

What went wrong and what worked while scaling AI agents for operations teams.

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Education

  1. IIIT Bangalore
    M.Tech, Computer Science
    2018 - 2020
  2. Manipal Institute of Technology
    B.Tech, Computer Science
    2013 - 2017

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