Sameer Narkar
- CEO at Konnectinsights
GetLatka interview
How Konnect Insights Reached $8.5M ARR and 500 Customers While Staying Bootstrapped and Profitable (Interview with CEO Sameer Narkar)
Sameer Narkar (CEO of Konnect Insights) spoke to Nathan Latka on June 9, 2026.
Konnect Insights figures from the interview
- ARR (Run Rate) (June 2026)
- $8.5M
- Paying Customers (2026)
- 500+
- EBITDA Margin (2026)
- 20%+
- Team Size (2026)
- 150
- Revenue Growth (2025)
- 85%
“Yeah happily bootstrapped and profitable.”
“we started getting a lot of international customers early 2023. And from there on, in next two to three years, we almost got customers across 30 plus countries. So I think that really helped us. The partner network and the ISV network helped us to accelerate faster.”
“Yeah, we have more than 500 plus customers, Nathan.”
Bio
Sameer Narkar is an Electronics & Telecommunications engineer with more than a decade’s worth of experience in software. After a career of 7 years in Software industry the work on Konnect Insight began in December 2011. He is a Founder, Director and Chief Software Architect of Konnect Insights. Konnect Insights is a product of Prudence Analytics and Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd. The idea of developing a product in this space was conceived while working on a research project. After consulting with experts from the industry, the company decided to build the simplest and the most efficient tool in this space His skills set span from being the chief architect of Konnect Insights to taking charge of Business Development. He started learning the ropes of Big Data back in 2011. In its present form Konnect Insights is giving some serious competition to internationally renowned social listening and analytics tools. Under Sameer’s leadership Konnect Insights can count some of the leading industry names from Telecom, Finance, Banking, Insurance, IT Consulting, Entertainment, Pharma & Hospitality as its subscribers.