Every object a child holds is about to wake up.
The plush, the crib, the night-light. Within a few years each one will listen, answer, and remember the child who loves it. Someone has to build the mind that wakes them, and build it safely. That is the whole reason Kheelona exists.
We are parents who build. We watched our own children reach for screens and felt the same knot you feel. Between the four of us we cover the four things a safe talking toy actually needs: a brain, a body, a business, and a voice. And education runs in the family: the first school Apoorva attended was the one his family runs, and he has been enrolling friends into classrooms since he was a teenager.
A brain, a body, a business, and a voice.
You are trusting us near your child. You should know who we are.
Co-founder and CTO · The brain
Aman builds the part that thinks. He studied AI, shipped machine learning in production, and holds 14 patents filed in his own name. He owns the backend and the brain: the voice loop your child talks to, the safety filters, and the small language model we train ourselves.
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.
Co-founder and Chief Hardware Officer · The body
Kashyap makes Lumi something small hands reach for. Over a decade, including years at Intel leading Thunderbolt 4 and 5 compliance, he took hardware from a blank page to certified products on real shelves. He owns the hardware and the power: the Kheelona Magic Box, the battery that lasts, and the unglamorous work of making it safe to hug.
Anyone can build a demo. Shipping a safe, certified toy by the thousand is a different sport. I have played it for ten years.
Head of Marketing · The voice
Ria owns how Kheelona speaks to the world. She co-founded a marketing agency and ran it for seven years, and has trained more than 1,000 students and entrepreneurs in digital marketing. She owns the story: where Lumi shows up, how it speaks, and why it never overpromises.
Most brands do not have a marketing problem. They have a clarity problem. My job is to keep this one clear and honest.
Co-founder and CEO · The business and the trust
Apoorva grew up inside education businesses: his family runs the pre-school where he was the first student, in 1994, and he helped run his father's coaching centre as a teenager. Fifteen years in finance and company-building later, he is a Chartered Accountant who learned to ship AI. He owns the frontend, the firmware, and the promise this brand makes to your family.
The hard part of AI for children is not the model. It is the trust. So we build that first, and everything else second.
What we believe.
Screen-free is not nostalgia. It is the next product.
Safety is not a feature. It is the whole product.
A toy should be kept, not outgrown.
The parent holds the keys. Always.
Karnataka Elevate
- Founders Inc
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