Ritu Soni Srivastava - Co-founder, Lightbulb.ai

Ritu Soni Srivastava

Co-founder, Lightbulb.ai

More about Ritu Soni Srivastava

Currently Co-Founder, Lightbulb.ai - delivering real-time learner engagement & emotion analytics!

Formerly, Founder, Obino, a health & weight-loss coaching app that touched over a million lives and in Sep 2017, became RG Obino, with the founding team’s successful exit to strategic international investors.

On the professional front...

I have held pivotal profiles over the last 19 years across the Deep-tech, Health-tech, Telecom, Media & IT industries:
- Building Lightbulb.ai, that uses computer vision & emotion ai to deliver real time learner emotion & engagement analytics for remote / online learning businesses
- Building Obino, a venture-funded health-tech business & guiding it to a successful exit
- Creating award-winning & multi-million dollar mobile products like Music on Demand for Airtel
- Launching landmark advertising campaigns like 'Har Ek Friend Zaroori Hota Hai' for Airtel
- Being an Head of Programming & RJ for Radio stations like Red FM & RadioOne FM
- Managing a strategic Sales portfolio for Wipro Infotech

While on the personal front...

I am a doting mom, a prolific public speaker and a fitness junkie.
And blog & vlog regularly on my website - www.ritu.io - to share my learnings.
I also work with accelerators and startup forums on a pro-bono basis to mentor startups, especially those led by women founders.
And of course, invest in startups in problem areas that are close to my heart.

About Lightbulb.ai

Lightbulb uses computer vision & emotion ai to provide real time learner engagement and emotion analytics for remote learning businesses globally.

We help improve acquisition, reduce churn and transform teacher training processes by providing emotion & engagement feedback of the participants & hosts, both in one-to-one or one-to-many learning scenarios.
This analysis can be done continuously via an SDK integration with the LMS or ad-hoc for any video-conference based meeting.
Businesses can also test their pre-recorded video content with internal teams or external users prior to rollout.

About Obino

Obino was founded in 2012 by Ritu Srivastava, Yogesh Sachdeva & Vishal Soni & is a digital Health & Weight loss Coaching app that was used by lakhs of users to regain control over their health. Obino touched over a million lives, saw lakhs of kilos of weight lost & enjoyed a 4.4 plus rating on Google Play in its time.

The Founding Team at Obino raised 4 rounds of funding & grew the team from 5 to 65 members before successfully exiting in 2017, to a US-based healthcare conglomerate, RoundGlass!

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