Layoff
Sep 2023Khatabook cut about 42 employees, or 6% of its workforce, in a restructuring tied to profitability goals.
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Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Khatabook is an India-based fintech and MSME business-management platform that started with a digital ledger app for merchants and expanded into payments, lending, payroll, invoicing, inventory, and business-content tools.
Primary product
Digital ledger / bookkeeping app for MSMEs
Founded
2018
Headquarters
1539, 18th Cross Road, Sector 3, HSR Layout, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, 560102
Team size
300-400
Work style
Hybrid
Industry
Financial Services
Sub-industry
Fintech / MSME business management SaaS
Offices
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Business model
Freemium mobile app
SaaS subscriptions for premium features
Embedded financial services / lending distribution
Payments and QR/UPI monetization
Content-led merchant acquisition
Funding
People & investors
Leadership
Co-founder & CEO
Co-founder
Senior Vice President Operations
Satvika Batria
Director - Growth Marketing & Investor Relations
Nadeem Hussain
VP of Analytics
Abhishek Kumar Anand
Lead, Data Science
Tarang Srivastava
Regional Head
Rohin A George
Associate Director Customer Experience
Vijay Pandey
Regional Head
Yasir Shamsi
Associate Director Training & Quality
Founders
Co-founder
Co-founder & Product Lead
Co-founder & Chief Operating Officer
Vaibhav Kalpe
Co-founder
Investors
Alexander Will
Alkeon Capital
Alpha Wave Global
Amit Ranjan
Amrish Rau
Anand Chandrasekaran
Aparna Chennapragada
B Capital
Better Capital
Christina Cordova
Deep Nishar
GGV Capital
Gokul Rajaram
Hummingbird Ventures
Kevin Weil
Kunal Bahl
Kunal Shah
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Moore Strategic Ventures
Rahul Vohra
Rocketship.vc
Rohit Bansal
RTP Global
Sequoia Capital India / Peak XV Partners
Sriram Krishnan
Surge
Tencent
Tribe Capital
Unilever Ventures
Y Combinator
Work & culture
Employee-first, progressive, innovation-driven, and oriented around solving large-scale MSME problems; official career pages emphasize passionate teammates, honest feedback, fast product/tech challenges, and a remote-balanced engineering culture.
Work style
Hybrid
Compensation
Public compensation signals are limited. Career pages and job boards advertise competitive salary, ESOPs, health insurance, learning and development, team retreats/offsites, lunch on the house, unlimited leave, and a flexible work culture; no official salary bands were found.
Benefits
Lunch on the house
Unlimited leaves policy
Free & anonymous therapy sessions
Cool office parties
Learning & development
Health insurance
Flexible work culture
Competitive salary
ESOPs
Product & market
Pricing
Core bookkeeping features are free; premium SaaS features and financial services are monetized through paid upgrades and lending/finserv distribution.
Differentiators
- —Mobile-first digital bahi-khata for MSMEs
- —Vernacular / multi-language support
- —Payment reminders via SMS / WhatsApp
- —UPI / QR collection workflows
- —Expanding suite beyond ledgers into payroll, inventory, invoicing, and lending
- —Large merchant network in India
- —Focus on next-billion-user and Bharat markets
Technology
React
TypeScript
Node.js
NestJS
PostgreSQL
Java
Python
Kotlin
Swift
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Jenkins
Snowflake
dbt
Segment
Firebase
Sentry
Prometheus
Grafana
Customers
Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs)
Kirana and retail shop owners
Small merchants and shopkeepers
Distributors and wholesalers
Suppliers
Businesses needing bookkeeping and billing
Merchants using UPI/QR collections
Competitors
OKCredit
PhonePe for Business
Paytm
BharatPe
Vyapar
PagarBook
Tally
Dukaan
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
US$10M-$25M
Estimated monthly visits
1.5M
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Signals & risks
Shutdown
Nov 2021Khatabook discontinued its MyStore e-commerce enablement app as part of product portfolio consolidation.
SourceLatest news
YourStory · Nov 2024
Khatabook reported FY24 revenue of Rs 102.7 crore, up 26.97% YoY, while net loss narrowed 7.32% to Rs 116.24 crore.
Entrackr · Sep 2023
Khatabook cut more than 40 roles, or about 6% of its workforce, in a restructuring tied to profitability goals.
Financial Express · Sep 2022
Khatabook was reported to be preparing a super-app pivot with free core features and paid SaaS features, while scaling financial services.
TechCrunch · Aug 2021
Khatabook closed a $100 million Series C led by Tribe Capital and Moore Strategic Ventures at a reported $600 million valuation.
The Economic Times · Mar 2021
Khatabook announced its first strategic acquisition, Biz Analyst, to add business analytics and premium value-added services.
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