We built mindn on one belief -

make execution smooth.

Execution is chaotic and stressful in most cases but it needn’t be that way.

Built by operators
who’ve delivered.

Two founders. Combined, over 50 years building, scaling, and shipping in technology, operations, and growth.

Karthik Balakrishnan
CO-FOUNDER
Karthik Balakrishnan

25 years in sales, marketing, and operations across leading Indian and multinational companies. Most recently CEO of Deccan Herald, a leading Bengaluru-based media group. Builds high-performing teams, leads complex projects, drives digital transformation at scale.

EDUCATION
PG Diploma in Management — IIM Ahmedabad
Primary degree in Agriculture
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Anand Kumar
CO-FOUNDER
Anand Kumar P

26 years in deep tech across Fortune 500 companies and multiple geographies. Founded and served on boards of US and Indian start-ups for the last decade. Active mentor to early-stage founders. Drawn to health tech, innovation, and the intersection of digital tools and human performance.

EDUCATION
Master’s in Engineering
PG Diploma in Management
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Strategy sets directions. Process structures. Neither holds under pressure.

Between us, we’ve spent more than 50 years shipping under pressure — across sales, operations, deep tech, and scale. Different companies, different decades, same pattern: the team had the capability, but the work still got stuck. Not for lack of effort. For lack of a system that held when the pressure rose.

We’d seen it solved before, in an unlikely place: elite athletes have personal coaches and specialised tools to perform better under pressure, so why can’t delivery teams have the same.

mind-n is where we close that gap.

Senior Counsel.
Across the spectrum.

Spanning tech, consumer, and human capital – with deep operating experience across global and Indian organisations.

TECHNOLOGY
Sathya Shankar
Sathya Shankar
Health-tech architecture and product

30+ years leading embedded and cloud-based health informatics products. Most recently COO-Technology at a leading global healthcare company.

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STRATEGY & GROWTH
Sachindra Rudra
Sachindra Rudra
Strategy, scaling, capital

25+ years scaling organisations. Leads CrestSpring, an impact-focused investment advisory in India. Prior: Navis Capital, McKinsey, Unilever.

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PEOPLE & ORGANISATION
Shivakumar V
Shivakumar V
Org design, transformation

Former CHRO of IIM Bangalore. 30+ years across apparel, consulting, education, retail. Rare HR leader with line operating experience.

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People who have been on the
other side of this problem.

SHIPPED UNDER PRESSURE

operators who’ve carried delivery.

SEEN IT AT SCALE

Fortune 500s, media groups, start-up boards.

STILL OPERATORS

we build mind-n the way we’d want to use it.

Built for enterprise procurement.
Without the procurement drag.

ISO 27001 CERTIFIED

Information security management aligned to international standard. Reviewed and renewed annually.

GDPR-COMPLIANT

Data handling, user rights, and breach response aligned to EU regulation. We treat every region’s data with the same standard.

YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS

Team-specific findings never cross customer boundaries. Aggregate insights are anonymised at the source — not after.

Where pressure is real
and consequences are material.

HIGH-GROWTH TECHNOLOGY

Software
Analytics
R&D

CROSS-FUNCTIONAL PRODUCT

Engineering
Product
Design

CREATIVE & CONSULTING

Operating under delivering pressure

We’re building the system
we always wished we had.

Book a Demo

30 min · online or in person

Build systems that improve
how work happens.

We’re building infrastructure for delivery capability under pressure. Selective hiring across product, engineering, and business roles.

We Look for People Who Care about

  • care thinking Structured thinking
  • care clarity Clarity under pressure
  • care problems Solving real operating problems
  • care measure Measurable impact

Get in Touch with us at careers@mindn.ai

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