Vikas Kalra

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Co-founder & CTO at Brook Ops · HR software

Brook Ops
Gurugram, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
6+ years experience
ISB Hyderabad
English, Hindi
Raising
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Overview

Founder of Brook Ops (HR software). 6 years of building before that. Previously built and sold a small HR software company. Signed 313 paying customers, 5 of them enterprises. Before that: Philips and Myntra. Most at home with HR tech and SaaS. Yoga every morning.

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Skills
SaaSHR techsalespayroll
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Raising a $15M seed for invoice financing for Indian SMBs

Stage
Seed
Raising
$15M
Instrument
SAFE
Committed so far
$478k from angels
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
$102k MRR after 13 months
Use of funds
Product and compliance

$102k MRR after 13 months. Looking for investors who know supply chain and can help with hiring.

Gurugram, Indiahr techsalespayroll
Open

Experience

  1. Co-founder & CTO
    Dec 2024 - Present
    Brook Ops · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
    • Grew the team to 111 people across 4 countries.
    • Took Brook Ops from zero to $9 million ARR.
  2. Senior Consultant
    Aug 2022 - Dec 2024
    Philips · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
    • Delivered 26 engagements across 8 countries.
    • Ran commercial diligence on 11 deals.
  3. Business Analyst
    Nov 2020 - Aug 2022
    Myntra · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
    • Wrote the payroll service that now handles 88 million requests a day.
    • Cut p99 latency on the web services from 799ms to 117ms.

Projects

Side project: a recipe search engine
2023

Built with sales and HR tech. 135 people used it last year.

HR software benchmark
2022

Reproducible benchmarks comparing sales and SaaS on real workloads.

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Education

  1. ISB Hyderabad
    MBA, Business Administration
    2020 - 2022
  2. University of Delhi
    B.Com, Computer Science
    2016 - 2020

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