Harshvardhan Kariwala

Founder

Palo Alto, California, United States11 yrs 6 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Founded and scaled a category-defining SaaS company.
  • Raised over $8.5M from top-tier investors.
  • Built a high-output team across multiple geographies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS entrepreneur with expertise in compliance and risk management solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipProduct DevelopmentRisk Management

Other Skills

Business DevelopmentBusiness StrategyCaseOps By VComplyComplianceOps by VComplyEntrepreneurshipManagementNew Business DevelopmentPolicyOps by VComplyProduct InnovationRiskOps by VComplySaaSStart-upsStrategic Technology PlanningStrategyTeam Management

About

I’m the founder and CEO of VComply, an Accel-backed SaaS company reimagining how organizations manage compliance and risk, not as checklists, but as operational muscle. VComply is a Compliance & Risk Operating System (CROS) designed for mid-market businesses in traditional industries like healthcare, energy, and nonprofit sectors where fragmented workflows, spreadsheets, and institutional inertia dominate. We’ve built a people-first platform that embeds accountability, clarity, and execution into the day-to-day business not just into audits or certifications. Our product is trusted by global teams to drive real-time control across complex operations. I founded VComply from the ground up, scaled it across geographies, and led it through multiple growth phases — building a distributed team, navigating product-market fit, and earning the trust of industry operators and investors along the way. My focus now: scaling VComply into a category-defining system of record for operational risk & compliance and exploring strategic partnerships that accelerate this mission. If you’re building, scaling, or investing in the future of operational resilience, let’s connect. 🚀

Experience

Vcomply technologies, inc.

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

May 2019Present · 6 yrs 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

  • I founded VComply to solve a simple but massive problem: compliance and risk execution in most organizations is fragmented, reactive, and fundamentally broken.
  • From an idea conceived in Kolkata, I built VComply into a global, Accel-backed SaaS company delivering a category-defining Compliance & Risk Operating System (CROS) for mid-market organizations especially in healthcare, nonprofit, and energy sectors. These are industries where regulation is critical, but existing solutions are either non-existent or too complex.
  • As founder, I’ve led every phase of VComply’s evolution:
  • Product leadership: Designed and evolved our core platform from first principles to meet real-world operational risk challenges not just framework checklists.
  • Go-to-market strategy: Entered and scaled in difficult verticals where we’re often the first platform replacing spreadsheets and email workflows.
  • Team-building: Built a high-output team across geographies, with 95%+ first-time SaaS professionals trained and led through multiple pivots and pandemic cycles.
  • Capital & stakeholder management: Raised $8.5M+ from tier-1 investors like Accel; navigated board dynamics, investor pressure, and operational constraints while maintaining long-term vision.
  • Execution under pressure: Steered the company through aggressive targets, high churn cycles, and founder-level challenges — delivering consistent ARR growth and strong customer engagement.
  • VComply is now recognized as a trusted platform powering frontline compliance in organizations across the U.S., Middle East, and Asia with growing demand in sectors previously underserved by GRC software.
  • I remain focused on strategic growth, category leadership, and identifying long-term partnerships to scale our mission.
LeadershipEntrepreneurshipProduct DevelopmentProduct InnovationBusiness Strategy

Startup grind

Director

Nov 2016Apr 2020 · 3 yrs 5 mos

Lime learning systems pte. ltd.

Founder & CEO

Feb 2015Apr 2017 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Singapore · On-site

  • LIME (Learning & Interaction Made Easy) is a versatile learning management system that integrates collaboration, interaction & analytics with an intuitive user centric interface. LIME platform incorporates the functionality of mobile technology, social media, adaptive digital content & open data, providing opportunity for an efficient teaching & learning experience.

Excellencetech infosystems pvt. ltd.

Chief Executive Officer

Jan 2015Nov 2018 · 3 yrs 10 mos

  • All around the globe, there are countless ingeniously simple innovations that are simplifying millions of lives today. This is how we, at ExcellenceTech, understand technology. Every day, our quest begins with leveraging today’s technology to create cutting-edge solutions for tomorrow that touch lives and leave a lasting impression. Right since our inception in the year 2014, we have continually striven to deliver simple, yet powerful web design and development solutions. Our constant and earnest endeavor is to deeply understand your business requirements, chalk out an optimum strategy, and to deliver a simple and robust solution that will propel you light years ahead of your competition.
  • We think Simple. We think Innovation.

Rishteykart retail pvt. ltd.

Strategy Adviser

Jan 2015Jul 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos · India

The university of manchester

President (Accounting & Finance Society)

Sep 2014Sep 2016 · 2 yrs · Manchester, United Kingdom

Education

The University of Manchester

BA Economics — Accounting and Finance

Jan 2013Jan 2016

CIMA

Chartered Management Accountant — Accounting

Jan 2017Jan 2018

Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS)

Diploma In Management Studies — Business Management

Jan 2012Jan 2013

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