Krishna Kini

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Co-founder & CTO at Summit Learning | ex-Kotak Mahindra Bank

Summit Learning
Bengaluru, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
10+ years experience
ISB Hyderabad
English, Hindi, Kannada
Raising
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Overview

Co-founder & CTO of Summit Learning, working on HR software. Signed 89 paying customers, 17 of them enterprises. Raised $3 million across 2 rounds. Most at home with SaaS and sales.

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  • Investors who back our stage and sector
  • Second opinions on HR tech decisions
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Early customers and design partners
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Skills
SaaSpayrollsalesHR tech
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closes in 3 months

Raising a $1.5M pre-seed for pet insurance for farmer cooperatives

Stage
Pre-seed
Raising
$1.5M
Instrument
Priced round
Committed so far
Opening the round now
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
$5M ARR after 26 months
Use of funds
Engineering hires and the first sales team

$5M ARR after 26 months. Looking for investors who know robotics and can help with regulatory approvals.

Bengaluru, Indiasaassalespayroll
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Experience

  1. Co-founder & CTO
    Nov 2025 - Present
    Summit Learning · 11 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Raised $33 million across 2 rounds.
    • Previously built and sold a small HR software company.
  2. Principal Engineer
    May 2023 - Sep 2025
    Kotak Mahindra Bank · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Led or co-led 29 investments, 3 of them now at Series B or later.
    • Sit on 2 boards.
  3. Senior Engineering Manager
    May 2020 - May 2023
    Oracle · 3 yr · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Brought on-call pages for growth down from 27 a week to 2.
    • Shipped 24 launches on the growth team without a rollback.
  4. Director of Engineering
    May 2018 - May 2020
    Postman · 2 yr · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Shipped 30 launches on the payments platform team without a rollback.
    • Built the experimentation framework 13 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  5. Director of Engineering
    Aug 2016 - May 2018
    InMobi · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the search services from 344ms to 172ms.

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Education

  1. ISB Hyderabad
    MBA, Business Administration
    2005 - 2007
  2. IIT Madras
    B.Tech, Economics
    2001 - 2005

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