Janani Anjana Rao

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Founder & CEO at Mosaic Cloud · HR software · SaaS, payroll

Mosaic Cloud
Bengaluru, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
5+ years experience
Srishti Manipal Institute
English, Hindi, Kannada
Raising
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Overview

Founder & CEO of Mosaic Cloud, working on HR software. Took Mosaic Cloud from zero to $7 million ARR. Before that: Hindustan Unilever and Meesho. Most at home with sales and SaaS. Volunteer coding coach for school students.

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Skills
saleseducationpayrollHR techSaaS
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Pre-seed round open - vendor onboarding for logistics fleets, 30% month-on-month growth

Stage
Pre-seed
Raising
$3M
Instrument
SAFE
Committed so far
$549k from operators in the space
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
30% month-on-month growth after 8 months
Use of funds
Engineering hires and the first sales team

30% month-on-month growth after 8 months. Looking for investors who know banking and can help with expansion into the Nordics.

Bengaluru, India · remote OKsaleshr techpayroll
Open

Experience

  1. Founder & CEO
    Jun 2025 - Present
    Mosaic Cloud · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Signed 195 paying customers, 21 of them enterprises.
    • Raised $34 million across 3 rounds.
    • Previously built and sold a small HR software company.
  2. Business Analyst
    Mar 2024 - Jun 2025
    Hindustan Unilever · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 15 minutes to under 4.
  3. Associate Partner
    Oct 2021 - Mar 2024
    Meesho · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 32 minutes to under 4.
    • Shipped 30 launches on the public API team without a rollback.

Projects

Open-source sales toolkit
2024

A small library for HR software that 443 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. Srishti Manipal Institute
    B.Des, Computer Science
    2017 - 2021

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