Here’s how Keka HR won hearts of 6500+ customers........................

From a team of 5 to 550+, to raising India’s biggest series A round worth $57 mn in SaaS during funding winter - here’s how Keka HR won hearts of 6500+ customers.

• Necessity is the mother of invention:

Vijay Yalamanchili, founder of keka was extremely disappointed & frustrated working with HR softwares that weren’t not up to the mark. 

He went on a searching spree to find different HR softwares available in the market. But to his surprise, all of them had a poor user interface, which took away the efficiency of HR and the #employees. 

Fed up of finding a good software, Vijay decided to build his own software called, Keka (means ‘awesome’ in South Indian native language) in 2015 and also embedded features for payroll, applicant tracking, recruiting, leave & attendance, performance management. 

• A breaking point:
Keka had acquired 450 clients in less than a year, without any #investor money!

Today, Keka runs the payroll of 1.5M+ employees on a monthly basis & their sales boosted by 7x during covid as they made HR functions in Organisations go from good to great. 

• A disruption that took 1.5 years to build:

Vijay found a major gap in other HR #softwares on the tracking of attendance. No existing softwares directly synced biometric devices to attendance log. 

This caused HRs to update attendance manually in the web browser which was very tiresome. Keka’s got its biggest brownie point by adding this feature which took 1.5 years to build but paid off well.

An employee frustrated with the existing framework can only become an #entrepreneur and help solve a problem not just for themselves but for millions.