Freehand names Krshna Prashant as first marketing lead

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Freehand is the company whose autonomous AI Teams manage supply-chain spend for Fortune 500 enterprises. It has announced the appointment of Krshna Prashant as its first Marketing Lead. She is the company’s first marketing hire in the United States.

The appointment comes weeks after Freehand raised $75 million in funding. Battery Ventures and NewRoad Capital Partners co-led the round. Former U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker’s PSP Growth and Nexus Venture Partners participated.

What the CEO said

“We deliberately went looking for someone from the B2C world,” said Nitin Jayakrishnan, co-founder and CEO of Freehand. “The best consumer marketers know how to make people feel something and act, and that instinct is exactly what enterprise software has been missing. Krshna has done that at scale across two continents. Bringing a B2C sensibility to B2B is how we intend to build a brand people remember, not just a product they buy.”

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