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Image checked 2026-11-01. Display does not imply endorsement.Parthi Duraisamy co-founded Alaan and serves as CEO. The company's official funding announcement describes both founders as former McKinsey consultants and describes their work building the spend-management platform.[1][2]
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Parthi Duraisamy co-founded Alaan after a career at McKinsey. In the company’s launch account, he describes the contrast between digital consumer payments and the less digitised processes used for business spending. As co-founder and CEO, he presented Alaan as a way to connect corporate payment tools with smarter expense controls, putting the workflow around a payment at the centre.[2]
