A brain, a body, and a business.
Aman builds the part that thinks. He studied AI, shipped machine learning in production, and holds 14 patents filed in his own name across fields most engineers never touch. He owns PlayOS: the voice-to-voice engine, the on-device safety filters, and the Voice SLM that gets smarter with every conversation.
A toy that listens has to think on the device, in real time, and never say the wrong thing. That is the hard problem. It is the only one I want to work on.
Kashyap lives and dies for hardware. Over a decade, including years at Intel, he took platforms from a blank schematic to a certified shelf, leading Thunderbolt 4 and 5 compliance for Tier-1 OEMs. He owns the Kheelona Magic Box: the board, the module, and the unglamorous work of getting it certified and onto a production line.
Anyone can breadboard a demo. Shipping a safe, certified module by the thousand is a different sport. I have played it for ten years.
Apoorva spent fifteen years in finance and company-building, including a decade as a director scaling a global tech-services firm of around 500 people. He is a Chartered Accountant who learned to ship AI. He runs product, fundraising and go-to-market, and owns the part parents care about most: safety, privacy, and the trust a family places in a talking toy.
The hard part of AI for children is not the model. It is the trust. So we build that first, and everything else second.
Karnataka Elevate
Founders Inc