Naren Krishna

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs experience

Key Highlights

Founded two successful startups in HR Tech and Ed-tech.
Scaled Jellybean to over 3 crore GMV in employee benefits.
Led enterprise business unit at Scaler with 7x YoY growth.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and HR Tech entrepreneur with extensive startup experience.

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About

Seasoned entrepreneur and operator with over 11+ years of experience in HR Tech, Ed-tech & SaaS domain. Naren built his first startup Stockroom.io right out of college in 2015 & scaled it to $1mn ARR with < $50K in funding. Post that he lead the enterprise business unit at Scaler, one of India's largest ed-tech companies. In 2022 he Co-founded his second startup called Jellybean, a personalised employee benefits platform in 2022 and raised $500K USD. Scaled it to over 3crore GMV of annual employee benefits transactions and over 20+ customers. Currently building Potential - India's first functional protein coffee brand.

Experience

Potential

Founder & CEO

Oct 2025 – Present · 5 mos · Bengaluru · On-site

Building India's first protein functional coffee mix brand.
→ 10g Protein
→ 70mg Caffeine
→ 70mg L-theanine
→ Zero Sugar & 53 cal per serving
Clean energy. Calm focus.
Mind + Body Fuel for high performing individuals.

Career break

Health and well-being

Sep 2024 – Jul 2025 · 10 mos

Took a pause to slow down, get into great health - both mentally & physically.
Also to reflect on priorities and exploring few personal passions.

Jellybean

Co-Founder & CEO

Sep 2022 – Sep 2024 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru

Building Asia's #1 personalised employee benefits & rewards management platform.
Processed over 3 crore INR in employee benefits/rewards in less than 8 months & built over 100+ partnerships with wellness/benefit providers.
Backed by Paradigm Shift Capital, Razorpay Founders, Sunn91 ventures & some marquee angel investors.

Self-employed

Angel Investor

Jul 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Started investing in startups to learn the art of angel investing.
Current investments - Jar, Hiresure

Scaler academy

Business Unit Head - Enterprise(B2B)

Oct 2020 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Built and led the second largest BU in the company with over 130+ folks from scratch. Responsible for industry partnerships and growing the placement outcomes of Scaler learners.
1000+ companies | Over 5000+ placements | 7x YoY growth
Reported directly to the founder.

Stockroom.io

Founder & CEO

Apr 2015 – Sep 2020 · 5 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Primarily focussed on building a talent assessment and hackathon platform for technology recruitment.
Scaled the company to over $1mn ARR with < $50K in seed funding.
Built another product Equiv in 2017 thats India's leading career fair platform for underrepresented/diversity talent. Equiv was behind some of the industry defining events like
Women Changemakers - Multi city and one the largest women only career fair in India.
Q-rious - India's leading career fair for LGBTQ+ community
Enables - India's largest career fair for differently abled community
Worked with over 100+ large enterprise organisations(Primarily GICs).

Mauka

Intern

May 2013 – Jul 2013 · 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

First exposure to the startup world. Did a bit of everything from marketing to sales.

Inc42

Founding Member

Jul 2012 – Aug 2014 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Hyderabad Area, India

Part of the early founding team and building this out of college dorm room from 2011 to 2015. Learnt the fundamentals of entrepreneurship and venture building quite early through this experience.