Barnali Ananya Chakraborty

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Founder & CEO at Northwind Care | ex-Bajaj Finserv

Northwind Care
Bengaluru, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
11+ years experience
BITS Pilani
English, Hindi, Kannada
Raising
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Overview

Building Northwind Care in Bengaluru - HR software. Raised $37 million across 3 rounds. Previously built and sold a small HR software company. Before that: Bajaj Finserv and Atlassian.

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Skills
SaaSsalesHR techpayroll
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closes in 3 months

Raising a $750k Series A for field-service scheduling for landlords

Stage
Series A
Raising
$750k
Instrument
SAFE
Committed so far
$281k from operators in the space
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
19% month-on-month growth after 11 months
Use of funds
18 months of runway to Series A milestones

19% month-on-month growth after 11 months. Looking for investors who know banking and can help with enterprise sales.

Bengaluru, India · remote OKhr techsalessaas
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Experience

  1. Founder & CEO
    Jun 2024 - Present
    Northwind Care · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Previously built and sold a small HR software company.
    • Took Northwind Care from zero to $2 million ARR.
    • Raised $38 million across 2 rounds.
  2. Engagement Manager
    Feb 2022 - May 2024
    Bajaj Finserv · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Ran commercial diligence on 15 deals.
  3. Senior Consultant
    Oct 2019 - Feb 2022
    Atlassian · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Ran commercial diligence on 23 deals.
    • Designed the operating model for a 12 thousand-person transformation.
  4. Business Analyst
    Jun 2017 - Oct 2019
    BigBasket · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Reduced cloud spend on developer experience by 45% in two quarters.
  5. Business Analyst
    Feb 2016 - Jun 2017
    Mphasis · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Reduced cloud spend on product security by 31% in two quarters.

Projects

Side project: a habit tracker
2023

Built with sales and HR tech. 838 people used it last year.

Write-up: HR software in practice
2022

A long-form guide to HR software for people starting out.

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Education

  1. BITS Pilani
    B.E., Economics
    2008 - 2012

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