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Ashish Sonone: Khatabook co-founder

An IIT Bombay engineer behind a ledger app for small shops.

Ashish Sonone is a co-founder of Khatabook. He studied at IIT Bombay. He worked as a software engineer before joining the Kyte team.

Ravish Naresh and his college friends built Kyte.ai, a spend manager app, in 2016. In October 2018 Kyte Technologies took over the Khatabook product, which became the focus of the business.

In 2019 and 2020 Khatabook raised a $25 million Series A from backers that included GGV Capital, Sequoia India, Tencent and Y Combinator. In May 2020 it raised a $60 million Series B led by B Capital.

In August 2021 it raised a $100 million Series C led by Tribe Capital and Moore Strategic Ventures at a valuation of about $600 million.

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Who is Ashish Sonone?

Ashish Sonone is a co-founder of Khatabook, the digital ledger app for small businesses. His co-founders are Ravish Naresh, Dhanesh Kumar and Jaideep Poonia.

Where did Ashish Sonone study?

He is an IIT Bombay alumnus, like the other Khatabook founders.

How did Khatabook start?

Ravish Naresh and college friends built the spend manager app Kyte.ai in 2016. In October 2018 their company, Kyte Technologies, took over the Khatabook product from its builder Vaibhav Kalpe.

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