Company: Hasura
Nomination Submitted by: Mindshare PR
Company Description: Hasura is helping to build the modern global ecosystem of data-driven, cloud-based software applications. Hasura’s range of data access solutions helps organizations accelerate product development and delivery by instantly connecting data and services to applications by automatically generating communications interfaces, known as Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).
Nomination Category: Individual Awards Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Maverick of the Year
 Nomination Title: Rajoshi Ghosh, Co-Founder & COO
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Rajoshi Ghosh is a serial entrepreneur, co-founder & COO of San Francisco-based software company Hasura. She is the first female founder of an open-source unicorn company started in India and also a first for an India-born female entrepreneur.
As a Bioinformatics Specialist at the Genome Institute of Singapore, Rajoshi conducted and published research projects identifying algae to aid in biodiesel production and developed an automated annotation process for newly sequenced organisms. She also researched rare disease variants in the Human Gene Mutation Data (HGMD), and 1000 Genomes Project databases to determine risk factors for each variant.
Rajoshi’s first company developed a booking system for the medical industry. She then co-founded a web and mobile development start-up that helped Fortune 500 companies modernize their software architectures. During this time, Rajoshi incubated two additional companies developing browser extensions and food delivery apps.
In 2017, Rajoshi co-founded Hasura to develop solutions to simplify and accelerate software application development. Under her guidance, Hasura has grown rapidly with Fortune 500 customers and 150 employees across several continents.
Rajoshi is a World Economic Forum Global Shaper and alumni of the National University of Singapore and Stanford University Graduate School of Business Stanford Ignite Program.
- Outline the nominee's achievements since July 1 2020 that you wish to bring to the judges' attention (up to 250 words):
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Under Rajoshi’s leadership, Hasura has grown exponentially over the past two years, establishing itself as the leader in its segment, attracting hundreds of thousands of users and Fortune 500 customers, raising over $100M in funding, and increasing the employee count from 40 to 150+.
Notably, Hasura is the first India-founded open source software company to reach a $1B valuation and the first with a female co-founder.
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Raised $9.9M in Series A 2020
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Raised $25M in Series B 2020
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Raised $100M in Series C 2022
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Valuation over $1B
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Customers include Airbus, Atlassian, Netlify, Philips, Walmart and the The Clerk of the United States House of Representatives
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Won InfoWorld’s Best Open Source Software Award 2020
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Won Silver Stevie’s Award for Application Programming Interface (API) Management Solution 2022
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Organized and hosted three annual HasuraCon Conferences attracting thousands of participants in the GraphQL/ software development community
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Funding for Hasura:
GraphQL developer platform Hasura raises $100M Series C - https://tcrn.ch/3cMCc1K
Hasura raises $25 million Series B and adds MySQL support to its GraphQL service - https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/08/hasura-raises-25-million-series-b-and-adds-mysql-support-to-its-graphql-service/
Hasura raises $9.9M Series A to simplify GraphQL for developers - https://tcrn.ch/3Jeykmb
Praise for Hasura:
Hasura’s GraphQL Joins allows developers to fetch data from multiple databases and other sources via a single API - https://bit.ly/3beIRBd
Hasura launches managed cloud service for its open-source GraphQL API platform - https://tcrn.ch/3oBD6ko
Praise for Rajoshi:
Revolutionizing Access to Instant and Secure Data - 35 Under 35 - https://bit.ly/3vkmQYM
Breaking The Glass Ceiling: These Women-Led Startups Entered Unicorn Club - https://bit.ly/3JdDVJm
Notable Quotes:
"As different database types have proliferated within the enterprise, the need to abstract some of the underlying data services to improve developer velocity has intensified, and this is why interest in GraphQL is spiking. But GraphQL can be complicated and, as a result, platforms that simplify its implementation are seeing surges in demand. This is the opportunity that Hasura is aimed at." - Stephen O'Grady, RedMonk
"If we had gone the traditional way this process would have taken us 2-4 years. With Hasura we have been able to crunch it to just under a year. Achieving this timeframe in a highly regulated environment like healthcare is phenomenal" - Karthik Srinivasan, Philips Healthcare
Testimonials:
https://bit.ly/3vn0FB3
https://bit.ly/3Q1ihKE
- Explain why the achievements you have highlighted are unique or significant. If possible compare the achievements to the performance of other players in your industry and/or to the nominee's past performance (up to 250 words):
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Under Rajoshi’s leadership, Hasura is transforming an entire industry by providing developer-focused tooling products that drastically decrease software development times and increase product-to-market delivery.
Hasura’s range of data access solutions helps organizations accelerate product development and delivery by instantly connecting data and services to applications by automatically generating communications interfaces, known as Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).
For today's web and mobile application developers, writing APIs can consume 50 to 80 percent of back-end coding time. This creates a significant negative impact on development costs and delivery times, ultimately hurting the consumer. Hasura solves this bottleneck by automating the process and giving developers time back to focus on their product development and user experience.
Hasura is on a continual development cycle, regularly introducing new innovations to the developer community and furthering its goal to decrease and simplify development time while continuously evolving with the industry’s needs.
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