Saravana Kumar
- Chief Executive Officer at Document360 Limited
- CEO at BizTalk360
- CEO and Founder at Kovai
GetLatka talk
How Kovai Scaled to $10M ARR as a Bootstrapped Multiproduct SaaS Company (Talk by CEO Saravana Kumar)
Saravana Kumar (CEO and Founder of Kovai) gave a talk on March 17, 2023.
Kovai figures from the talk
- ARR (2020 to 2021)
- $10M
- Team Size (March 2023)
- 250+
- Year Founded
- 2011
- London Office Headcount (March 2023)
- 10
“We've been in the business for over ten years, so I learned quite a lot in terms of how to scale the business from zero to 10,000,000 plus.”
“The company was started back in 2011. I just, you know, I was doing consulting for ten plus years, and I found a gap in the market, and I started as a solo founder and then slowly scaled it to first from one employee to five employees to 20 employees, 50, and then now today we are about two fifty plus people in the organization.”
“We are over $10,000,000 ARR, but that's slightly old number. So it's a 2020, 2021 number. So we are about that's a publicly disclosed data.”
Bio
Saravana Kumar is the Founder and CTO of BizTalk360, enterprise software that helps Microsoft BizTalk server customers better manage their production or any controlled BizTalk environments like UAT. BizTalk360 has grown significantly, having customers across 12 countries. Saravana Kumar is a Microsoft BizTalk server MVP since 2007, blogger,international speaker and active community member in BizTalk Server area. In year 2005, he won the worldwide developer competition conducted by Microsoft for building SQL Server Service Broker Management studio. That year he was invited to San Francisco for the finalist dinner by Microsoft. Saravana has spent the majority of his career working with organisations in UK helping them build their enterprise software solutions. Prior to BizTalk360, he worked for past 5 years helping Fidelity UK built their SOA/BPM platform using Microsoft BizTalk Server. In the past Saravana has worked for some of the big consulting companies like Accenture, NHS, Microsoft, BT, Unilog (now Logica) etc. as an independent consultant.