About Us

At AnyDB, we help modern businesses to scale operations faster by providing an next-generation object-based operations platform.

Founded in 2024 and based in Austin, Texas, USA, Humanly, Inc. is the people-centric company behind AnyDB, dedicated to creating meaningful experiences for both our team and our customers.

At Humanly, we aim to make a dent in the universe by solving gnarly, real-world problems that truly matter. We do this by deeply understanding the world our customers live in, by thinking long term, putting people over process, being authentic, and building powerful, intuitive solutions that just work and feel truly human.

Madhan Kanagavel

CEO
Madhan, based in Austin, USA, is a serial entrepreneur with more than 25 years of experience creating products used by organizations worldwide. Before AnyDB, Madhan co-founded and bootstrapped FileCloud, helping grow it into a platform trusted by more than 3,000 organizations across over 90 countries.

Madhan serves as advisor for startups, worked as a SCORE Austin Business mentor and serves as an advisor for NYO capital VC firm. He holds an MS in Engineering from Boston University.

Radhakrishnan Sethuraman

COO
Radhakrishnan, based in Austin, USA, drives business and technology operations at AnyDB. Previously, he was SVP of Operations and a founding team member at FileCloud, and spent 14+ years at IBM’s Linux Integration Center.

With over 25+ years of experience, Rad specializes in scalable systems, Linux, and database technologies. He holds 23+ patents, co-authored a book on the Linux Standard, and earned his M.S. in Computer Science from Texas Tech University.

Anis Abdul

CTO
Anis, based in Austin, USA, leads technology and architecture at AnyDB. Previously CTO at FileCloud, he helped build and scale enterprise software used globally. Before that, he spent more than 13 years at IBM’s Server Division, earning 17 patents focused on system reliability and redundancy.

His expertise spans distributed systems, scalability, and enterprise-grade infrastructure and has a M.S in Engineering from Texas A&M university. He is an avid astrophotographer, capturing distant galaxies and nebulae from his backyard observatory.

Business is about delivering consistent value to customers

For years, we noticed a recurring pattern across businesses we have built and grown. Success didn’t come from brilliant one-off efforts. It came from consistency of execution, going the distance when things get tough and simply getting stuff done.

While ideas and overall strategy matter, they matter a great deal less than continuously and quickly iterating in a customer centric way to deliver real business value. This consistency of execution came from teams that could 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘵 good decisions and actions, over and over.

But building that consistency was the hard part. Best practices were scattered across docs, emails, app silos or locked away in the heads of a few. Critical client info disappeared into inboxes. Everyone knew what “good” looked like, but there was no simple way to make it the default.

That’s why we built AnyDB.

AnyDB lets businesses turn their best practices into living, breathing maps of interconnected data and workflows.

We are excited to see what you will build with it.

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