Phyllo
Phyllo provides infrastructure to access and normalize creator data from platforms, enabling businesses to use this data. The 63-person company raised $18M in a Series A round in August 2022.
The growth story
Phyllo grew from 24 to 63 employees between 2021 and 2026, raising $18M along the way, most recently a Series A in August 2022.
About
Phyllo connects to creator platforms to extract and standardize data about creators, which businesses can then use for various applications. Its technology maintains live data feeds from platforms and normalizes the information into a usable format.
The company, founded in 2021, has grown to 63 employees and secured $18M in Series A funding led by Nexus Venture Partners and others. Its rapid funding round suggests strong investor interest in the creator economy infrastructure space.
Founders and leadership
Engineering is Phyllo's largest function, with 8 employees. The company has a median tenure of 2 years, indicating moderate employee retention.
The Phyllo org chart
Akhil Bhiwal (Founder & CEO) leads 17 mapped leaders with 5 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 13 (-28% YoY), Marketing 7 (-30% YoY), Business Development 6 (-25% YoY), Arts and Design 5 (0% YoY), Sales 5 (-50% YoY), Entrepreneurship 5 (0% YoY).
Talent flow
Phyllo's team comes from companies like Amazon and Cognizant, with multiple hires from each. Alumni frequently move to Datadog and Fuze Finance, with 4 former employees at each.
Most common previous employers of Phyllo staff: Amazon (2), Cognizant (2), Deep Rooted (2), ClearTax (2), HackerNoon (2), Thousand Faces Club (2). Former Phyllo employees most often moved to Datadog (4), Fuze Finance (4), Salesforce (3), Reo.Dev (2), Photon Legal (2), BrowserStack (2).
Alumni worth knowing
The Phyllo mafia
Phyllo alumni have founded 14 companies, including Reo.Dev (87 employees) and Eazzy (11 employees). This suggests a strong entrepreneurial culture.
14Achintya Gupta, was Co-Founder until 2023Manish Gupta, was Chief Technology & Product Officer until 2026Pankaj Patel, was Mobile Application Developer | Automation until 2024Mohit Kumar, was Co-Founder & Head of Engineering until 2023Dhruv Kapuria, was Product Marketing until 2025Tanishq Mehta, was Founding Team- Product until 2024
Arvind Kumar Gupta, was Head of Engineering | Founding Member until 2025
Phalgun Guduthur, was Head of Product until 2024
Amaan Sayyad, was Software Engineer Intern until 2022
Rachit Kumar, was Research Intern until 2024
Himanshu Saleria, was Product Manager until 2024
Anujith Singh, was Engineering until 2025
Sumukha _, was Software Engineer 2 until 2024Web traffic
Traffic mix: 27% direct, 46% search, 12% social, 0% paid.
What this company is made of
Most common skills at Phyllo: JavaScript (17), HTML (16), C++ (16), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) (15), Problem Solving (15), Management (14), Java (14), Leadership (14).
Where the team actually sits
Phyllo people are concentrated in Karnataka, India (20), Maharashtra, India (6), India (3), Delhi, India (3).
What employees say
- Compensation
- 4.00 / 5
- Career opportunities
- 4.20 / 5
- Senior management
- 3.90 / 5
- Work-life balance
- 4.10 / 5
Frequently asked
Phyllo has 63 employees as of September 2026.
Phyllo has raised $18M in total, most recently a Series A round in August 2022.
Phyllo was founded in 2021 by Akhil Bhiwal.
Akhil Bhiwal (Founder & CEO) sits at the top of Phyllo's reporting structure, with 5 direct reports.
The most common previous employers of current Phyllo staff are Amazon (2 people), Cognizant (2 people), Deep Rooted (2 people).
Former Phyllo employees most often move to Datadog (4), Fuze Finance (4), Salesforce (3).
At least 14 companies have a founder who previously worked at Phyllo, including Reo.Dev, Eazzy, Mobioxy.
The most common skills among Phyllo staff are JavaScript, HTML, C++, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Problem Solving.
Phyllo staff are concentrated in Karnataka, India (20), Maharashtra, India (6), India (3).
Phyllo has about 13 people in Engineering, down 28% over the past year, as of September 2026.
Phyllo has about 7 people in Marketing, down 30% over the past year, as of September 2026.
Computed from 47 current and 129 former Phyllo profiles, as of September 2026. Source: Crustdata.
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