Mindtickle
Mindtickle sells software to train and coach sales and customer support teams, with clients including Cisco and Splunk. The company has raised $281M, most recently a Series E in 2021, and employs 682 people.
The growth story
Mindtickle grew from 792 to 682 employees between 2022 and 2026, raising $281M along the way, most recently a Series E in August 2021.
About
Mindtickle makes a platform that tracks how sales and support staff interact with customers, then suggests training to improve performance. Companies use it to standardize coaching and measure team productivity against benchmarks.
The company reached Series E funding in 2021 with backing from Accel and Norwest. Its alumni have founded at least 23 startups, including Pazcare and Walnut.
Founders and leadership
Engineering is the largest department with 49 staff. The median employee stays for 2 years.
The Mindtickle org chart
Krishna Gopal Depura (Co-Founder & MindTickler) leads 60 mapped leaders with 14 direct reports. Click +N to expand a team; names link to the person’s public profile.
Departments, and which ones grew
Headcount by function: Engineering 231 (-4% YoY), Sales 64 (-2% YoY), Operations 48 (-11% YoY), Information Technology 48 (-8% YoY), Business Development 41 (+28% YoY), Arts and Design 31 (-16% YoY).
Talent flow
It recruits heavily from Sprinklr and Infosys, with 11 and 8 hires respectively. Alumni often move to Google (11) and Atlassian (9). Many employees studied at Indian technical institutes like IIIT Nagpur.
Most common previous employers of Mindtickle staff: Sprinklr (11), Infosys (8), Microsoft (8), IBM (7), Seismic (7), Accenture (7). Former Mindtickle employees most often moved to Google (11), Atlassian (9), OLOID (6), Sirion (5), Salesforce (5), BoomerangAI (4).
Alumni worth knowing
The Mindtickle mafia
Ex-staff started 23 companies including topmate.io (2,039 staff) and Pazcare (282 staff).
28Dinesh Singh, was Senior Software Developer until 2020Sanchit Malik, was Business Development Intern until 2012Manish Mishra, was Director Of Engineering until 2019Eric Anderson, was President, Global Go-To-Market Operations until 2024Abhishek Ballabh, was Instructional Design Head | Customer Success | Products until 2015Shalu Mitruka, was Business Operations, Sales Operations and Strategy until 2020
Shankar Ganapathy, was Director of Strategic Accounts until 2020
Shyam HN, was Head of Global Sales Development until 2020
Himanshu Gupta, was Technical Consultant until 2017
Harry (Hridayesh) Gupta, was software engineer until 2017
Sayanta Ghosh, was Principal Product Manager until 2022
Rajat Jain, was Head | Business Technology, BizOps until 2022
Dipanjan Dey, was Chief Of Staff until 2022
Karthik MSN, was Head of Design & Product Management until 2018
Vishalini Paliwal, was Senior Director Product Management until 2020
Misha A., was SENIOR PEOPLE SUCCESS PARTNER - GTM until 2021
Akshay Sunil Masare, was Software Engineer - Data Science until 2022
Ravi Handa, was VP, Customer Success until 2012
Mayank Kumar Bhutoria, was Sales until 2020
Charbel Simon, was Head of Marketing until 2013
Narayan Thammaiah, was Advisor until 2023
Aman Bansal, was Software Development Engineer II until 2020
Rajneesh Harish Malik, was Sr. Director Peoplesuccess- CoE until 2024
Uday Bansal, was SDE-2 until 2024
Vivek Jain, was Staff Engineer until 2024
Ujjwal Singh, was Software Engineer until 2020
Karandeep Singh, was Software Developer Engineer until 2023
Albert Fong, was Director, Product Marketing until 2021Hiring now
Web traffic
Traffic mix: 54% direct, 5% search, 28% social, 1% paid.
What this company is made of
Most common skills at Mindtickle: Leadership (159), SQL (154), Communication (150), Project Management (149), Microsoft Office (149), Problem Solving (146), Microsoft Excel (142), Java (141).
Where the team actually sits
Mindtickle people are concentrated in Maharashtra, India (105), Karnataka, India (68), India (14), California, United States (9).
Search footprint
Mindtickle attracts about 3,310 organic search visits a month, traffic worth roughly $69K a month if bought through ads. It gained 1,443 ranking keywords and lost 1,130 in the last period.
What employees say
- Compensation
- 3.50 / 5
- Career opportunities
- 3.00 / 5
- Senior management
- 2.60 / 5
- Work-life balance
- 3.20 / 5
Frequently asked
Mindtickle has 682 employees as of September 2026.
Mindtickle has raised $281M in total, most recently a Series E round in August 2021.
Mindtickle was founded in 2012 by Krishna Gopal Depura, Nishant Mungali, Deepak Diwakar.
Krishna Gopal Depura (Co-Founder & MindTickler) sits at the top of Mindtickle's reporting structure, with 14 direct reports.
The most common previous employers of current Mindtickle staff are Sprinklr (11 people), Infosys (8 people), Microsoft (8 people).
Former Mindtickle employees most often move to Google (11), Atlassian (9), OLOID (6).
At least 23 companies have a founder who previously worked at Mindtickle, including topmate.io, Pazcare, Walnut.
Mindtickle attracts about 3,310 organic search visits a month, worth roughly $69K a month in equivalent ad spend.
The most common skills among Mindtickle staff are Leadership, SQL, Communication, Project Management, Microsoft Office.
Mindtickle staff are concentrated in Maharashtra, India (105), Karnataka, India (68), India (14).
Mindtickle has about 231 people in Engineering, down 4% over the past year, as of September 2026.
Mindtickle has about 64 people in Sales, down 2% over the past year, as of September 2026.
Computed from 283 current and 359 former Mindtickle profiles, as of September 2026. Source: Crustdata.
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