Kirti & Prabhu Srivastava – PY Technologies – Lead Angels

Founders Kirti and Prabhu Srivastava seen pitching PY Technologies – a Retailtech AI/ML driven startup that enables retailers to capture data at every POS transaction, draw insights from this data and better engage with their customers.

“It is our vision to make people shop more” says Kirti, who serves as the CEO of the Startup.

Kirti has 16 years of work experience at companies like Oracle, Wipro, Cognizant, IMS, Health and Dell. Her expertise lies in Software Product, conceptualization to delivery, Sales & Maintenance. She is a product of BITS Pilani with an MTech in Software Systems. Prabhu who serves as CTO has 20+ years work experience at companies like Qualcomm, Ericsson, Hughes and Netapp. His expertise lies in designing & implementing tech solutions in the areas of Big Data, ML, Storage & Networking. He holds B.Tech, M.Tech. degrees from NIT Allahabad and a General Management degree from IIM, Bangalore. The third cofounder is Jitendra Alwani who serves as the Chief Sales Officer and has 5 years work experience at companies like Pepsico, Cadbury’s India & Aditya Birla Retail. His forte lies in closing sales & managing long-term client relationships.

The Startup is Bangalore-based and has been in operation since January 2016. It has conducted 70 test pilots, and through intensive customer interaction built a product that is currently scaling. It currently has 12 paying retail customers and has just started to generate revenue.