Our Story

Built for the
business owners
who do it all

Nemora was born in Chennai from one simple observation: the best local businesses were losing clients not because of the quality of their service — but because they couldn't be everywhere at once.

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Our Mission

Intelligence that
works while you rest

We believe every local business — the physiotherapist, the boutique owner, the solo coach — deserves the same AI infrastructure that Fortune 500 companies spend millions building. We've democratised it.

Nemora isn't a chatbot. It's an intelligence layer that learns your voice, your services, your customers — and handles everything you'd normally have to stop your day for.

No missed opportunity
Every inquiry, every after-hours question, every booking request — caught, responded to, and logged. Revenue that used to slip through the cracks stays in your business.
Built for your context
Not a generic chatbot you configure yourself. We build your knowledge base, train your agent, and tune it until it sounds like you — all within 72 hours.
Quality over quantity
We're not trying to onboard every business in India. We work deeply with a focused cohort of local businesses, deliver extraordinary results, then grow from trust.
How it started

The story behind the product

Every great product starts with a problem the founders felt personally. Ours was watching brilliant local businesses lose clients to silence.

Early 2022
The problem becomes personal
Co-founder Arjun's family physiotherapy clinic in Adyar starts losing bookings to competitors — not because of care quality, but because their phone lines were unreachable on weekends. That gap between great service and client communication plants the seed for Nemora.
📍 Adyar, Chennai
Late 2022
Prototype in a WhatsApp group
Priya (CTO) builds the first Nemora prototype — a WhatsApp bot trained on the clinic's FAQ document. Within 3 weeks, after-hours enquiries drop to zero missed messages. The proof of concept is undeniable.
🤖 First working prototype
Mid 2023
First 10 paying businesses
Word spreads through Chennai's business community. A yoga studio in Nungambakkam, a skincare brand in T. Nagar, a law firm in Anna Salai — all sign on. Nemora's onboarding model (build, train, launch in 72h) is battle-tested and proven.
🚀 10 clients · ₹0 in ads
Early 2024
Multi-channel expansion
Voice intelligence and email orchestration ship. Nemora is no longer a WhatsApp bot — it's a full client-communication layer. Businesses report handling 3× more enquiries with the same team size.
📞 Voice · 💬 Chat · 📧 Email
Today
40+ businesses running on Nemora
Nemora now powers over 40 businesses across Chennai and beyond — from solo health coaches to multi-location clinics. Zero missed queries. 98% client retention. And we're just getting started.
✓ Live & growing
Why Chennai

We're not from
Silicon Valley.
That's the point.

Chennai isn't a test market for us. It's home. We understand the rhythms of local business here — the importance of trust, the role of WhatsApp, the way referrals travel through communities.

Indian business hours are different
Most Chennai businesses get enquiries until 10 PM, on Sundays, on holidays. We built for that reality — not 9-to-5 American office culture.
Tamil language support, natively
Our agents handle Tamil-English code-switching naturally — because that's how Chennai customers actually communicate, not how textbooks say they do.
Local trust built face-to-face
We onboard every client ourselves. No self-serve forms, no 30-minute demos. You speak to our team, we understand your business, and we build it right.
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6+
Neighborhoods
40+
Businesses live
24/7
Response coverage
The Team

Small team,
strong opinions

We keep the team lean on purpose. Every person here talks directly to clients, ships code, and stays close to the product. No layers, no hand-offs.

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Arjun Krishnamurthy
Co-Founder & CEO
Ex-product manager at a B2B SaaS company in Bangalore. Returned to Chennai to solve a problem he watched his family face. Obsessed with local business economics and how technology changes unit economics at the SMB level.
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Priya Raghavan
Co-Founder & CTO
ML engineer who spent 4 years building NLP systems at a fintech startup. Believes the hardest part of AI isn't the model — it's understanding what the customer actually needs. Architects every Nemora knowledge base from scratch.
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Dhruv Venkatesh
Head of Product
Interaction designer turned product lead. Spent years making enterprise software feel human before joining Nemora. Responsible for the dashboard, the onboarding flow, and every pixel the client touches. Thinks good UX is invisible.
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Sana Khan
Head of Growth
Grew up in Chennai, studied at IIT Madras, worked in marketing for consumer brands before joining Nemora at inception. Deeply understands how local business owners make decisions. Handles every client relationship from first call to go-live.
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Rohit Murugesan
AI Engineer
Masters in CS from BITS Pilani. Builds and maintains the core agent infrastructure — the prompt engineering, the retrieval pipelines, the safety guardrails. Has probably read more client FAQs than any human alive.
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You?
We're hiring
We're looking for a full-stack engineer and a customer success lead who care deeply about local businesses. Small team, meaningful equity, real impact from day one.
Full-stackCustomer Success
Advisors
VB
Vikram BhattEx-VP, Freshworks
MS
Meera SubramanianPartner, IAN Fund
RK
Rajan KumarFounder, 10x Academy
What we believe

Three principles
everything is built on

01
Earned trust, not implied
Every business that trusts us with their client communication is trusting us with their reputation. We take that seriously. We onboard manually. We measure outcomes. We only claim success when clients see it.

"We don't send automated NPS surveys. We have actual conversations."

02
Invisible when it works
The best technology is the kind clients never think about. Nemora should feel like an extension of your business — not a product layered on top. Our job is done when you forget we're there.

"We succeeded when a client says 'my team handled it' — and means Nemora."

03
Speed without shortcuts
We launch in 72 hours, but we don't compromise on quality to do it. Every knowledge base is hand-curated, every agent is tested, every edge case is handled before go-live. Fast and thorough aren't opposites.

"72 hours to launch. Zero tolerance for 'good enough'."

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