Our story

From industrial sensors to intelligent systems.

Keleno didn't start as an AI company. We started in IoT and IIoT — connecting physical devices, machinery, and industrial processes to software that had to be right, in real time, with no room for a graceful failure. That discipline is the foundation everything else at Keleno is built on.

How we got here

Over a decade, three chapters

We spent our early years in the unglamorous end of technology: getting sensors, gateways, and industrial equipment to report data reliably, and getting that data to systems that could act on it. It's a domain with almost no tolerance for "mostly working" — a missed reading or a delayed signal has real operational consequences.

That experience shaped how we think about software generally: systems have to survive contact with the real world, not just a demo environment. As our clients' needs expanded into broader IT consulting, systems integration, and full product engineering, we carried that same standard with us.

Today, AI and agentic engineering are the newest chapter — but they're built on the same foundation. Retrieval-augmented generation and autonomous agents are, underneath, just another category of system that has to run reliably inside a business that doesn't stop for you. We approach them with the same rigor we've always applied.

Leadership

The team behind Keleno

Arun Nair

Arun Nair

Ex-Head, Founder Machine Pulse, Intrapreneur — NIT Hamirpur

  • SolarPulse / FactoryPulse / WindPulse / Erixis — three unique products and platforms
  • Scaled the team to 50 people in a period of 3 years
  • Head and founder of Machinepulse
  • More than 100 million data points ingested across IoT platforms

AwardsGanter, Silicon Valley, Analytics India, GTM Research — fastest-growing PV monitoring vendor in the Indian subcontinent, Mahindra Innovation Award, Best Employee (consecutive) at Moser Baer India

SkillsInnovation and product management, rapid team scale-up, hands-on industrial internet / robotics / PLC, project monitoring and task allotment, competitor technology analysis, team building and management, POC delivery on emerging technologies

PreviouslyMachinepulse, Mahindra, Güdel, Moser Baer, Samtel

Binu Pankajakshan

Binu Pankajakshan

Serial Entrepreneur — Former MD & CEO, Nibodha — IIM & Calicut University

  • Experience bootstrapping a start-up from the ground up
  • Developed scalable products for the hospitality industry
  • Customer acquisition and management, cash flow management
  • Founder and leader of the IoT Kochi meetup group
  • Set up delivery process and org process; managed statutory compliance and accounting
  • Hands-on across sales, finance, HR, cash flow, customer interactions, and marketing

AwardsKovai IoT Hackathon, Mashape Hackathon

SkillsManaging company financials, operations, legal and liaisoning, fund raising, cash flow analysis, certified Project Management Professional (PMP)

PreviouslyIntuit, Xerox, Mindtree, UST Global

Where we work

Two geographies, one delivery standard

India — Delivery HQ

Our core engineering teams — the people writing, reviewing, and operating the systems we build — are based in India.

Centre A, 7th Floor, Alapatt Heritage Building, M.G. Road, Kochi, Kerala 682035

United States — Client Operations

Client-facing engagement and delivery leadership operate in the US, keeping communication close to the timezone our clients work in.

Keleno LLC — 157 Millingden Trail, West Lafayette, IN 47906, USA

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