Vidya Unnikrishnan

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Founder at Spindle Works · AI agents for operations teams · LLMs, B2B SaaS

Spindle Works
Chennai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
12+ years experience
IIT Bombay IDC
English, Hindi, Tamil
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Overview

Building Spindle Works in Chennai - AI agents for operations teams. Grew the team to 34 people across 4 countries. Took Spindle Works from zero to $1 million ARR. Before that: EY and Intuit. Most at home with B2B SaaS and fundraising. Yoga every morning.

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closes in 3 months

Series B round open - invoice financing for agencies, 27 enterprise pilots

Stage
Series B
Raising
$2M
Instrument
Priced round
Committed so far
Opening the round now
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
27 enterprise pilots after 19 months
Use of funds
Product and compliance

27 enterprise pilots after 19 months. Looking for investors who know logistics and can help with enterprise sales.

Chennai, Indiab2b saasautomationproduct
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Experience

  1. Founder
    Jul 2024 - Present
    Spindle Works · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Previously built and sold a small AI agents for operations teams company.
    • Raised $8 million across 2 rounds.
  2. Principal Engineer
    May 2023 - Jul 2024
    EY · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Sit on 6 boards.
  3. Senior Frontend Engineer
    Feb 2021 - Feb 2023
    Intuit · 2 yr · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Moved 71% of growth traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  4. Senior Engineering Manager
    Mar 2019 - Feb 2021
    HDFC Bank · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Grew the search team from 3 to 23 engineers.
    • Cut p99 latency on the search services from 484ms to 40ms.
  5. Senior Engineering Manager
    Mar 2015 - Dec 2018
    Morgan Stanley · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Wrote the product service that now handles 87 million requests a day.
    • Shipped 18 launches on the infrastructure team without a rollback.

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Education

  1. IIT Bombay IDC
    M.Des, Business Administration
    2013 - 2015
  2. Amity University
    B.Tech, Business Administration
    2007 - 2011

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