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The Story

Founded in 2011, Poshmark started with a simple yet powerful idea in Manish Chandra's garage. Along with co-founders Tracy Sun, Gautam Golwala, and Chetan Pungaliya, Chandra envisioned a platform that would revolutionize how people buy and sell fashion. The inspiration came from seeing the potential of the iPhone 4 to create meaningful connections in the shopping experience.

What They Do

Poshmark is not just another e-commerce platform – it's a social marketplace that brings together shopping and community. Think of it as a place where social media meets shopping, allowing users to buy, sell, and discover fashion, home goods, and accessories. With over 80 million users , the platform has become a go-to destination for both casual sellers and entrepreneurial individuals looking to build their own digital boutiques.

Growth & Achievements

• Started as a fashion-only platform and successfully expanded into home goods and electronics
• Raised over $160 million in venture funding
• Achieved a successful IPO in January 2021
• Recently launched innovative features like AI-powered visual search and livestream shopping
• Built a vibrant community of millions of buyers and sellers across the country

Today, under CEO Manish Chandra's leadership, Poshmark continues to innovate in the social commerce space, blending technology with community to create a unique shopping experience. The platform's success story is a testament to how combining social connections with commerce can create a powerful marketplace that resonates with modern consumers.

Gruve was founded on the premise that new technologies in Machine Learning, Data Sciences, Artificial Intelligence, and Software Development are transforming Enterprise Services. Our goal is to harness these advancements to deliver services with superior efficiency and tangible outcomes.

Our Team

Our team is built with a strong background in Software and Services, united by a shared sense of Purpose: to achieve the best outcomes for our clients. We value all our stakeholders, recognizing that People are our most important assets. We adopt a Process framework that ensures the delivery of high-quality results every time.

What Sets Us Apart

Our differentiation is straightforward: we genuinely care, we innovate, we disrupt, and we work hard.

Our Core Values:

Customer Success: Putting customers first.

Positive Feedback Loop: Embracing continuous improvement.

Pursuit & Persevere: Staying resilient and ambitious.

Integrity and Ethics: Acting with honesty and ethics.

Team & Trust: Collaborating with trust and respect.

Giving Back: Committing to community and responsibility.

Gruve is Norwegian for "To Mine or Mining Activity"

India hosts 25M+ events every year, but ordering food is still a nightmare—unreliable vendors, inconsistent pricing, and no seamless way to book catering. We’re fixing this."

Craft My Plate is a vertically integrated food marketplace where customers can instantly customize menus, place orders, and get it delivered conveniently —without dealing with vendors.

Clari5 is a globally recognized category leader in real-time enterprise financial crime risk management. Their platform enables banks and financial institutions to combat fraud and money laundering through a central nervous system approach powered by automation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, decision sciences, and real-time analytics. Ranked consistently in the global top 100 RiskTech and RegTech reports, Clari5 processes over 10 billion transactions and manages more than 1 billion accounts. With the world’s largest single-site fraud management deployment (200+ million accounts), Clari5 serves marquee banking clients across 24 countries and is the recipient of prestigious awards such as The Asian Banker MEA Risk Management Award, IBS Intelligence Global Fintech Innovation Award, and the Celent Model Risk Manager Award.

Joining the team behind the world’s most trusted artifact firewall isn’t just a job - it’s a mission.

🧩 What the Company Does

This company provides software tools to help development teams manage open-source code securely and efficiently. Its platform covers artifact management, automated policy enforcement, vulnerability detection, software bill of materials (SBOM) management, and AI-powered risk analysis. It's used globally by thousands of enterprises and millions of developers to secure their software supply chains.

👥 Founding Team

The company was founded in the late 2000s by a group of open-source contributors, including one who was heavily involved in building a popular Java-based build automation tool. The company was started by veteran engineers with deep roots in the open-source community—one of whom helped create a widely adopted build automation tool used by millions today. 

💰 Funding & Financials

Over the years, the company has raised nearly $150 million across several funding rounds, including a large growth round led by a top-tier private equity firm. It crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue around 2021 and has remained profitable since. Backers include well-known names in venture capital and private equity.

🏆 Key Milestones & Achievements

• Early on, the company took over stewardship of a widely used public code repository.
• It launched tools for artifact repository management and later expanded into automated security and compliance.
• Has blocked hundreds of thousands of malicious open-source packages and helped companies catch risky components before deployment.
• Released AI-powered tools that go beyond CVE databases to detect deeper threats.
• Recognized as a market leader in software composition analysis by major industry analysts.
• Today, it’s used by many Fortune 100 companies across industries like finance, government, and healthcare.