Former Twilio executive Ved Antani joins BetterPlace as chief product & technology officer

Frontline workforce administration software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup BetterPlace on Monday mentioned it has appointed Ved Antani as its new chief product and know-how officer. Antani final served as common Manager and vice chairman, engineering and product, at NYSE-listed cloud communications firm Twilio.

Including his expertise at Twilio, Antani has spent over 15 years in constructing extremely scalable platforms and merchandise throughout the SaaS, e-commerce, gaming and enterprise sectors, as per an announcement.

Prior to Twilio, the place he was chargeable for creating a world engineering and product imaginative and prescient, Antani led efforts to boost the engineering roadmap for Myntra as Vice President of the Flipkart subsidiary.

“At BetterPlace, Ved will be leading the entire tech team and helping the company go through a 360-degree AI revitalisation,” the assertion added. The Bengaluru-headquatered firm has been on a shopping for spree of late, having made its fifth acquisition in February 2023.

The firm didn’t instantly reply to ET’s request for touch upon whether or not Antani is changing the present CPTO, Komal Prajapati, or when the contemporary appointment will take impact.

“With the advent of AI, BetterPlace’s transformative tech stack could become the most impactful tech stack of the decade. This potential is what excites me and I look forward to working with the wonderful team and being part of their vision of unleashing the potential of the global workforce,” Antani mentioned.

In December, the corporate raised $40 million as a part of an prolonged funding spherical dubbed Series C, which resulted in worldwide investor Macquarie Capital becoming a member of the captable, together with Jungle Ventures, Unitus, BII, Capria and 3one4 Capital.“While our current tech capabilities have helped enterprises cut costs by 30% and increase productivity by 70% we wanted to deliver further and help enterprises see productivity gains they have never seen before,” Pravin Agarwala, cofounder and group CEO, BetterPlace, mentioned.

To accomplish such a goal, Agarwala mentioned that the corporate wished to onboard somebody who not solely had the technical experience to assist us by means of this journey however has additionally experimented to realize vital scale. “Ved’s extensive experience in large scale SaaS and ecommerce companies gives him a unique edge of not only understanding how platform economies work but also knowing the nitty gritties of using SaaS to achieve scale,” he added.

Founded in 2015, BetterPlace has been utilized by over 30 million employees throughout 1,500 consumer firms throughout Asia. Those shoppers embrace Swiggy, Accenture, Zepto, Lenovo and TenderCuts. The firm’s options in frontline workforce administration embrace discovery, hiring and onboarding to vendor administration, rostering, upskilling, productiveness administration, advantages switch and credit score providers.

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