SUMMARY
The List Includes Chargebee, Zoho, CloudCherry And More
Over the years, Chennai has grown to become the SaaS hub in India.
But every time, when someone asked about the list of SaaS Companies in Chennai, there was no listing available. So here is a list of all the SaaS companies in Chennai in Alphabetical Order.
Chargebee
Chargebee is a recurring billing platform for subscription-based SaaS and ecommerce businesses. It allows you to automate payment collection, invoicing, email notifications and customer management, by integrating with leading payment gateways.
Founders: Krish Subramaniam, Rajaraman Santhanam, Thiyagu, Saravanan KP
Founded in: 2011
Funding Raised: $24.2 Mn
Investors: Accel Partners, Tiger Global, Insight Venture Partners
Team Size: 120+
CloudCherry
CloudCherry is an Experience Management platform that is disrupting the way organizations listen to the Voice of Customer. Through CloudCherry’s flexible, customizable, self-serve solution, businesses today can be present at every step of today’s complex customer journeys, and listen to customers through a variety of ways.
Founders: Nagendra CL, Prem K Viswanath, Sriram Subramanian, Vijay Lakshmanan, Vinod Muthukrishnan
Founded in: 2014
Funding Raised: $7 Mn
Investors: Cisco Investments, Vertex Ventures, IDG Ventures, Chennai Angels
Team Size: ~80
CustomerLabs
CustomerLabs is a digital marketing infrastructure platform to manage marketing operations. It lets businesses to track & sync the customer data across platforms without writing any code to various analytics, ads and marketing platforms.
Founders: Asim Ali, Vishnu Vankayala
Founded in: 2013
Funding Raised: $50K
Investors: Times Internet
Team Size: <10
Facilio
IoT and ML-driven applications designed to unify your building performance in real-time.
Facilio is an all-in-one app suite that unifies facilities and sustainability management across portfolio of large buildings. It helps bring people, machines and buildings come together to work in sync and create beautiful facilities experience — so that there are no more siloed data, teams lagging behind in maintenance or inefficient sustainability performance.
Founders: Prabhu Ramachandran, Rajavel Subramanian and Yogendrababu Venkatapathy
Founded in: 2017
Funding Raised: $1.5 Mn
Investors: Accel Partners
Team Size: ~24
FourKites
FourKites is the real-time supply chain visibility platform that Fortune 500 companies and 3PLs trust to track shipment location and temperature and proactively manage exceptions. Using a proprietary predictive algorithm to calculate shipment arrival times, FourKites enables customers to lower their operating costs, improve on-time performance, and strengthen their end-customer relationships.
Founders: Mathew Elenjickal
Founded in: 2014
Funding Raised: $51.5 Mn
Investors: HBS Angels Chicago, Hyde Park Angels, Hyde Park Venture Partners, Otter, Bain Capital Ventures, August Capital
Team Size: ~160
Freshworks (previously Freshdesk)
Freshworks creates solutions for support and sales, to engage with and delight both customers and employees.
Freshdesk, a Cloud-based customer-support software firm, has been re-branded as Freshworks, which will be the parent company bringing together its suite of business software products — Freshdesk, Freshservice, Freshsales, Freshcaller, Freshchat, Freshmarketer and Freshteam.
Founders: Girish Mathrubootham, Shan Krishnasamy
Founded in: 2010
Funding Raised: $149 Mn
Investors: Accel Partners, Tiger Global Management, CapitalG, Sequoia Capital
Team Size: 1200+
HappyFox
HappyFox is a help desk ticketing system that is hosted on cloud, supporting multiple customer support channels like email, voice and live chat. HappyFox is a global help desk being rendered in 35 languages.
With differentiation coming from its focus on user experience and simplicity, HappyFox is used by thousands of successful companies of all sizes.
Founders: Shalin Jain
Founded in: 2011
Funding Raised: Bootstrapped
Investors: Nil
Team Size: ~20
HippoVideo
Hippo Video is a simple and quick video recording and sharing software for the busiest people. You can easily create, edit, store, share and track videos. The paid version lets you record for an unlimited period of time and can be exported to MP4 or stored/uploaded to Google Drive, YouTube, Vimeo and Google Classroom. Hippo Video, easily create or record videos for free at the start of a button.
Founders: Karthi Mariappan S
Founded in: 2016
Funding Raised: Undisclosed Amount — Seed Round
Investors: Kae Capital
Team Size: <10
Indix
Indix has built a Products Platform that delivers product information and commerce-ready services for a fraction of the cost of alternatives.
Indix combines AI with the largest collection of product data available: price, availability, and seller information, along with code-based identifiers and attributes. Businesses use the Indix Platform to improve the size and quality of their digital product catalog and develop innovative ways to buy and sell products.
Founders: Rajesh Muppalla, Sanjay Parthasarathy, Satya Kaliki, Sridhar Venkatesh
Founded in: 2010
Funding Raised: $30.9 Mn
Investors: Avalon Ventures, Anthemis Group, NGP Capital, Nexus Venture Partners
Team Size: ~70
KiSSFLOW
KiSSFLOW is a work automation platform designed for small and mid-sized businesses to automate their internal workflows and business processes.
Founded in: 2013
Founders: Suresh Sambandam
Funding Raised: $1 Mn
Investors: Undisclosed
Team Size: ~150
Klenty
Klenty is a Software Product that helps B2B Sales representatives to Prospect, Outreach, Follow-up at Scale and thereby achieve higher Sales Process Productivity & increase sales/meeting conversions with reduced manual efforts.
Using Klenty, you can understand who is more interested in your product/services and get faster responses from the ideal prospects. You can create more sales closure meetings & opportunities thereby making your sales process smooth & efficient.
Founders: Praveen Kumar, Vengat Krishnaraj
Founded in: 2015
Funding Raised: Nil
Investors: Nil
Team Size: ~20
Octoze
Octoze’s flagship product is a SaaS based platform to help schools, colleges and universities run more efficiently . It offers administrators, teaching staff, parents and students engage better with each other and drive better results for individuals and institutions. This combines learning management, ERP, reporting in one easy to use cloud based platform.
Founders: Swaminathan Arunachalam, Venkateshwara Rao, Mouli Kumar
Founded in: 2014
Funding Raised: Bootstrapped
Investors: Nil
Team Size: ~40
Paperflite
Paperflite is a mobile-first sales enablement platform. It helps curate content from marketing and lines up the most appropriate assets in real-time to your sales teams, enabling them deliver the perfect pitch to your prospects.
Paperflite is an all-new-yet-instantly-familiar way to share, track and organize all your content across every channel. Paperflite gives you better quality leads and empowers you to crush your targets using your existing content in a whole new way.
Founded in: 2016
Founders: Vinoth Kumar, Anant Bhat, Yega Kumarappan
Funding Raised: $400K
Investors: Chennai Angels
Team Size: ~20
Pipecandy
PipeCandy uses data science techniques to discover the right prospects for B2B sales reps and helps them segment the prospects based on nuances specific to their respective industries.
Founders: Ashwin Ramasamy, Shrikanth Jagannathan and Murali Vivekanandan
Founded in: 2016
Funding Raised: $1.1 Mn
Investors: Indian Angel Network, IDG Ventures, Axilor Ventures and Emergent Ventures
Team Size: ~30
Ramco Systems
Ramco Systems is a cloud enterprise software company focused on providing multi-tenanted enterprise software to corporates in the area of HCM and Payroll, ERP and M&E MRO for Defence and Civil Aviation, with Mobile first philosophy and In-memory based Planning and Optimization engine.
Founder: P R Venketrama Raja
Founded in: 1999
Funding Raised: 52 Million USD (Post-IPO Equity)
Investors: Axis Mutual Fund, Goldman Sachs, HDFC Holdings, Amansa Holdings, J O Hambro Capital
Team Size: ~3000
ReferralYogi
ReferralYogi is a SaaS based Customer Advocacy platform that promises sustainable revenue growth for businesses. It helps them identify their promoters, encourage referrals, manage references & create social buzz for their brands.
Founders: Gandhi Gopinath, Sriram Venkatachalam
Founded in: 2017
Funding Raised: Nil
Investors: Nil
Team Size: <10
Tagalys
Create, curate & launch conversion optimized e-Commerce product listing pages with no engineering support
Founded in: 2015
Founders: Antony Kattukaran, Palaniappan Chellappan
Funding Raised: Nil
Investors: Nil
Team Size: <10
Unmetric
Unmetric is a social media intelligence platform focused on brands. It is trusted by leading brands to understand their competitor’s efforts, uncover insights based on data and unlock new social strategies. Unmetric combines the power of people and technology to track and analyze the online behavior of over 30,000 brands segmented across 30 sectors for all major social channels.
Founders: Joe Varghese, Kumar Krishnasami, Lakshmanan (Lux) Narayan
Founded in: 2011
Funding Raised: 8.7 Million USD
Investors: Nexus Venture Partners, JAFCO Asia
Team Size: ~85
Xobin
Xobin’s suite of recruitment softwares cuts down 70% of your recruitment cost and helps you double up the quality of hires. Source,assess and onboard talent into the your team with Xobin’s intelligent recruitment software solutions.
Founders: Amrit Acharya, Guruprakash Sivabalan
Founded in: 2016
Funding Raised: Undisclosed Amount (Seed Round)
Investors: Axilor Ventures
Team Size: 11
Zoho
Zoho offers a suite of business, collaboration, and productivity applications. The company offers over 30 online applications from CRM to mail, office suite, project management, invoicing, email marketing, social media management, and more.
The suite comprises Zoho Writer, Zoho CRM, Zoho Sheet, Zoho Show, Zoho Projects, Zoho Meeting, Zoho Creator, Zoho Docs, Zoho Invoice, Zoho People, Zoho Mail, Zoho Assist, Zoho Reports, Zoho Recruit, Zoho Support, Zoho Books, Zoho Bug Tracker, Zoho Campaigns, Zoho Sites, Zoho Connect, and more.
Founded in: 1996
Founders: Sridhar Vembu and Tony G. Thomas
Funding Raised: Bootstrapped
Investors: Nil
Team Size: 5500+
Disclaimer: I work at Freshworks for Freshsales CRM but this list was put together with an intention to help the SaaS Community in Chennai. Opinions are my own and not the views of my employer.
[This post first appeared on Medium and has been reproduced with permission]
