Jayant Paleti is one of the four founders of Darwinbox, the Hyderabad HR technology company launched in 2015. The other founders are Rohit Chennamaneni, Chaitanya Peddi and Vineet Singh.
He studied at IIT Madras (B.Tech) and IIM Lucknow (PGDM in finance). He also holds the CFA Level III credential. He graduated from IIM Lucknow in 2010.
Before Darwinbox he worked in finance and consulting, including mergers and acquisitions and private equity advisory. He has said the Darwinbox idea came during an M&A assignment, where he saw that companies had poor visibility into their people data.
At Darwinbox he heads sales and marketing. The company became a unicorn in January 2022 after a $72M Series D led by TCV, and raised $140M from KKR and Partners Group in March 2025.