Pallav Nadhani

Founder of FusionCharts — built a bootstrapped, profitable data-visualization product used by Apple, Microsoft and Google, starting as a teenager from Kolkata, and exited to Idera in 2020.

Pallav Nadhani (b. Bhagalpur, Bihar; raised in Kolkata) founded InfoSoft Global in 2002 at 17 and built FusionCharts — a data-visualization / charting library — into a globally used, bootstrapped, profitable product, with customers including Apple, Microsoft, Google, Oracle and IBM. Scaffolded early by his father’s small computer business, he ran it solo for years, survived the Flash-to-JavaScript platform shift and open-source commoditization, and sold to US software firm Idera in 2020. He later built Collabion, Muze (acquired by Mode), invested via the Seeders syndicate, and became a co-founder of Presentations.AI (2025).

Notable achievements

• Founded FusionCharts (InfoSoft Global) in 2002 at age 17, from Kolkata — bootstrapped, no venture capital.
• Grew it to tens of thousands of customers and 750k+ developers across 100+ countries, with blue-chip clients (Apple, Microsoft, Google, IBM).
• Survived the Flash→JavaScript/HTML5 platform shift and open-source commoditization while staying profitable.
• Exited to US software firm Idera, Inc. in 2020.
• Built later ventures (Collabion, Muze → acquired by Mode), invested via the Seeders syndicate, and co-founded Presentations.AI (2025).

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