Ashwin Ramesh

Founder and CEO Synup

Last Reviewed: September 28, 2026

Executive Summary

Ashwin Ramesh is the co-founder and CEO of Synup, a marketing software company whose platform helps businesses, and the agencies that serve them, manage how they appear across search engines, maps, review sites and social platforms. He has been an entrepreneur since he was 14, when he started an online marketing and web services firm. He then chose to build companies full-time instead of going to college. Synup, backed by Vertex Ventures and Prime Venture Partners, reports managing more than 3.5 million business locations worldwide and has offices in New York, Berlin and Bengaluru. In 2018 Forbes named Ramesh to its 30 Under 30 Asia list for Enterprise Technology.

Career Highlights

• Founder and CEO of Synup, according to the company’s own author bio for him.
• Named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2018 list in the Enterprise Technology category.
• Synup raised a $6 million Series A led by Vertex Ventures and had more than 100,000 business customers by March 2018, as reported by Forbes.
• Launched Synup OS in August 2025 after more than two years of development, extending Synup from listings and reputation software into a full operating system for marketing agencies.
• Started his own online marketing and web services firm at age 14 and ran it profitably through his teens.

Professional Journey

Ramesh started young. According to his Synup bio, he became an entrepreneur at 14 with his own online marketing and web services firm. After running it profitably through his teenage years, he opted out of a formal college degree to work on entrepreneurship full-time. That background, as both an agency operator and a builder of software for agencies, shaped the company he went on to found.

Synup began as a platform for syncing and managing a business’s data across the many sites where customers find it, such as Yelp, Facebook and Google Maps, so that companies could track, manage and analyze their listings from one place. It raised a $6 million Series A led by Vertex Ventures, and by March 2018 Forbes reported more than 100,000 business customers. That year Forbes named Ramesh, then based in Bengaluru, to its 30 Under 30 Asia list for Enterprise Technology.

The company has since grown its reach. Synup says it has touched around 10% of all US small businesses, manages more than 3.5 million locations worldwide and has generated more than $1 billion in revenue for partners and clients. It runs offices in New York, Berlin and Bengaluru for North America, EMEA and Asia.

In August 2025 Ramesh announced Synup OS, which the company had planned and built for more than two years. It is designed as an operating system for the agencies that sell marketing services to small businesses, bringing lead generation, sales pipeline, client management, service fulfillment and invoicing into one platform. In launching it he pointed to the size of that market: about 50,000 agencies generating roughly $18 billion a year.

Education

Ramesh did not complete a formal college degree. According to his Synup bio, he chose to pursue entrepreneurship full-time after running his own company as a teenager.