Thirty years on the Indian shop floor. The reason Kayrilo exists — and the only person on our team who's filed a paper Form 25 by hand.
“I'd done payroll for 2,000-worker factories with nothing but a paper muster and a calculator. By the time wages were right, the next month was already in deficit. There had to be a better way.”
In 1996, Krishna walked into his first textile mill in Coimbatore as a 23-year-old accountant. They handed him a paper register, eight hundred names, and three weeks to figure out who was owed what. He filed his first Form 25 by hand that February.
Over the next three decades, he did it again and again. Coimbatore looms, Veraval trawlers, Ludhiana forging units, Surat textile clusters, Pune press lines — 600+ Indian businesses, fourteen states, every shape of wage cycle the country has ever known. He has filed PF challans by post and EPFO ECRs by FTP. He has explained the Contract Labour Act to magistrates and tindels in the same week.
He knew what worked. He knew what didn't. He knew that every plant in India was running the same nine spreadsheets — but every plant thought their spreadsheets were unique. By 2022, he had built and rebuilt the same payroll for 600 companies. Every time, from scratch.
He met Aditi and Karthik over a Saturday morning chai in Vadodara in early 2023. They had built payments rails, hospital HRMS, insurance underwriting platforms — they understood software. He understood the shop floor. Within two hours they had a plan: encode the patterns once, ship them to every plant in India. That conversation became Kayrilo.
Daynt is a Bengaluru-based product firm. For a decade they've shipped consumer-grade software across health, insurance, banking and D2C — each running at India scale.
They came to Indian payroll for the first time at Kayrilo, bringing what they learned at every product before.
The interbank settlement layer behind a tier-1 Indian neobank.
Unified attendance, payroll and rota for a pan-India hospital network.
Underwriting + claims platform for a listed insurance startup.
Real-time segmentation & journey orchestration for a top D2C beauty brand.
Every feature has to pass one test: does it make payday faster, clearer or more dignified for the person earning the wage?
Our team spends a week each quarter at a customer site — a paint shop in Pune, a trawler at 4am in Veraval. We design from what we see.
We encode every state notification, every Factories Act register, every CLRA form ourselves — so the inspector and the founder both leave satisfied.
Salaries should land at 9am with no drama. We obsess over reconciliation, fallbacks and audit trails so payday is the most uneventful day of the month.
Our investors include the founders of three Indian manufacturing groups and two of the country's largest fishing cooperatives.
Hubs in Bengaluru and Vijayawada, with field teams across India. No remote-only engineers — every person on the team has stood on a factory floor in the last quarter.
Engineering, compliance, customer success, field ops. Most roles in Bengaluru, Vijayawada, or field across India.