About

We're building the operating system small teams in India should have had a decade ago.

Whizly was started in 2024 in Bengaluru by three engineers who had each, separately, watched their parents run businesses on a chaos of WhatsApp, Excel, and post-its. Then we got tired of writing the same CRM glue code at every job we had. So we built our own.

HQ · Indiranagar, Bengaluru
Our mission

Make the world's small businesses 10× more capable, by giving them software that works the way they think — not the way enterprise software thinks they should.

Most CRMs were designed for Fortune 500 sales orgs and then dumbed down for everyone else. We're doing the opposite: build for a 5-person team that lives on WhatsApp, then scale up. Same brain, more surfaces.

What we believe

Four things we won't compromise on.

01

Software should disappear.

The best tool is the one that takes the next action without being asked. Whizly drafts before you open the app.

02

Local-first is a feature.

Whizly Code never sends your code to a server. Whizly stores your data in the region you sell in. Sovereignty isn't a checkbox.

03

Indian-first, not Indian-also.

We design for ₹, GST, UPI, and WhatsApp before USD, ACH, and Slack. Then we generalize. Not the other way around.

04

Beauty is functional.

An interface that respects your eye respects your time. We obsess over typography because it shows up in conversion rates.

The story

From four codebases to one.

Apr 2024

Three founders, one frustration

Hithu, Reuben, and Anika quit their jobs and start prototyping in a co-working space in Indiranagar. The first commit is a WhatsApp inbox.

Sep 2024

First 10 customers

All of them are travel agencies. We learn what 'WhatsApp-first CRM' actually means: 80% of leads never type their name into a form.

Jan 2025

Whizly Code, internally

We build a multi-agent shell to ship features faster. We realize our customers’ engineers want it more than we do.

Aug 2025

₹40Cr Series A

Lightspeed leads, with Accel and a handful of operator angels. We hire 14, mostly engineers, all in Bengaluru.

Apr 2026

Whizly + Whizly Code, public

Two products. One brain. The cloud and the desktop, sharing context. You're reading our about page.

The team

17 people. Mostly engineers.

All in Bengaluru. We're hiring designers, AE's, and one infrastructure engineer who hates Kubernetes.

HH
Hithu Hariharan
Co-founder, CEO
RJ
Reuben Joseph
Co-founder, CTO
AS
Anika Subramaniam
Co-founder, Design
VI
Vikram Iyer
Founding engineer
PN
Priya Nair
Founding AE
KR
Karthik Reddy
Whizly Code lead
MB
Meera Bhat
Engineer · agents
AP
Arjun Pillai
Engineer · infra

Want to build with us?

We're hiring. Mostly engineers. All in Bengaluru. Bring an opinion.