Team
Kiran Konduri - Co-founder
Kiran is a serial entrepreneur, he has co-founded and managed two startups. He was co-founder and CEO of Zephyr Software in 1997, one of the web's earliest community services providers for the Indian diaspora, the company was purchased by Infospace in 1999. Kiran also co-founded Cogniti, a provider of business intelligence and analytics solutions to the retail industry. Kiran was one of the pioneers of the hybrid model for a start-up, establishing an offshore development center and back office operations in India and business operations in US. Prior to that he has worked with Microsoft and Wipro in business development, account management and partner management.
Kiran also loves discovering new Andhra and Indo-Chinese restaurants.
Shriram Adukoorie - Co-founder
Shriram has been with Microsoft for the past 10 years. He launched MSN in India and served as its Country Manager from 1999 to 2003. During this time he was extensively involved with growing the Internet and mobile data services industry in India. He was also instrumental in founding the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) along with a couple of other industry colleagues. Shriram and his team launched MSN in Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines and Indonesia. As part of Microsoft, Shriram also managed the Telecom and ISP business for India.
Shriram loves photography.
Bal Krishn Birla - CTO
Birla is a senior techno-business leader who has over 11 years of experience in software industry. Birla was responsible for managing Amazon Associates group in Bangalore, India where he drove the Amazon Context Links and Amazon Omakase program across various markets from a conceptualization to roll out phase. He was involved in building large scale internet distributed systems, text/data mining solutions, and learning systems. Birla started his career with Infosys where he was responsible for building solutions for companies ranging from small startups to large organizations.
Birla holds a computer science degree from IIT Kanpur and loves restauranting.
