Hari Nair

Hari Nair

Co-founder & CEO of Zuno
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About

Third-time founder. Built and exited an edtech company, then started Zuno where we built Veridis, an ESG and carbon management tool used by large enterprises across Southeast Asia. Having worked on two startups before the advent of AI tool that accelerate productivity, we wanted to find out what it's like to build in the now. So we decided to launch Crunchy, an AI data tool that lets non-technical people create rich, shareable, and explainable visualization, ask questions about their data and actually get answers. No analyst, no SQL, no lock-in.

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  • Crunchy
    CrunchyThe AI analyst for marketing and GTM teams who need answers
    Apr 2026
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    Joined Product HuntMarch 25th, 2026

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Hari Nair•

1mo ago

PowerBI embed drove our team crazy! So we built Crunchy.

Hey everyone! I'm Hari from Zuno - we started out as a sustainability data management platform with built in custom dashboarding. But as we went more and more enterprise, the dashboards started to get more and more complex which led us down the path of using PowerBI embed to build these.

It works well, until it doesn't.

Hari Nair•

1mo ago

Hey I'm Hari 👋! Two time founder based out of Singapore, trying something new.

I've been through two very different startup journeys. The first was an EdTech platform I started in the midst of COVID, a simple tool to track student activity during online exams. It quickly evolved into an AI learning profile that helped teachers tailor content for their students. Before we even raised any funding, we got acquired by our biggest customer. Beginner's luck, I guess?

The second is Zuno - we built an ESG and carbon reporting tool now used by some pretty large enterprises across Asia. We went through multiple rounds of funding, got me on a few vanity lists, and taught me more than any degree or course ever could.

But this feels like a very different world than when I started either of those companies.

AI has really changed the game. Speed, market access, technical ability matter a lot less now. The work at Zuno opened my eyes to how big the gap is between people keeping up with this bullet train of AI advancements and those who've only just started to engage with it.

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