Harish Ramaswamy

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Founder at Ferro Cloud · HR software · HR tech, SaaS

Ferro Cloud
Hyderabad, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
10+ years experience
VIT Vellore
English, Hindi, Telugu
Raising
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Overview

Founder of Ferro Cloud (HR software). 10 years of building before that. Raised $21 million across 3 rounds. Signed 321 paying customers, 21 of them enterprises. Before that: HCLTech and KPMG. I teach a weekend class on SaaS.

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Skills
dataSaaSHR techpayrollsales
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closes in 3 months

Raising a $1M pre-seed for GST reconciliation for community banks

Stage
Pre-seed
Raising
$1M
Instrument
Convertible note
Committed so far
$603k from angels
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
112 paying customers after 14 months
Use of funds
Product and compliance

112 paying customers after 14 months. Looking for investors who know media and can help with expansion into India and SEA.

Hyderabad, Indiasaleshr techsaas
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Experience

  1. Founder
    Jan 2024 - Present
    Ferro Cloud · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Signed 159 paying customers, 4 of them enterprises.
    • Raised $29 million across 3 rounds.
    • Grew the team to 40 people across 5 countries.
  2. Associate Product Manager
    Jun 2022 - Jan 2024
    HCLTech · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Killed 7 features nobody used and shipped the 2 that customers asked for.
    • Took platform activation from 24% to 38% in three quarters.
  3. Group Product Manager
    Jan 2019 - Jun 2022
    KPMG · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Ran 47 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
  4. Principal Product Manager
    Oct 2016 - Jan 2019
    Nvidia · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Sit on 3 boards.
    • Backed 31 founders at pre-seed and seed.

Projects

Open-source payroll toolkit
2026

A small library for HR software that 53 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. VIT Vellore
    B.Tech, Economics
    2012 - 2016

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