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Over a year after he transitioned to the role of executive chairman from CEO, Freshworks Girish Mathrubootham is exiting the SaaS major.
In an SEC filing, Freshworks said that Mathrubootham will resign from the role of executive chairman and chairman of its board, effective December 1, to devote his efforts to the VC fund he cofounded, Together Fund.
“What started in Chennai grew into a global SaaS company on Nasdaq — thanks to an amazing team & customers… Next, I’ll focus on Together Fund & AI startups — working towards India’s dream of becoming a Product Nation,” Mathrubootham said in a post on X.
Together Fund was launched in 2021 with an initial corpus of $85 Mn by Mathrubootham, former Eka Software founder and CEO Manav Garg, former Matrix Partners India executive Shubham Gupta and former Accel executive Avinash Raghava to back early stage SaaS startups.
Freshworks said that Roxanne Austin will succeed Mathrubootham as the chairperson of the board.
Austin is the president and chief executive of Austin Investment Advisors for more than two decades. She has been a lead independent director on Freshworks’ board since May 2021. She also sits on the board of companies like CrowdStrike, Verizon, and AbbVie currently.
(The story will be updated soon)
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