Avaz
Acquired: Picture-based communication and learning app for people with special needs.
Co-Founder & CEO
Narayanan Ramakrishnan
Mr. Narayanan Ramakrishnan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Invention Labs and Avaz Inc., where he is building assistive technology products that empower and enable people. He brings a strong product and engineering background, with prior experience across product management and software development roles in technology organizations. His current focus is creating accessible, user-centric tools that help people with speech and communication challenges express themselves more independently.
Founder
Ajit Narayanan
Mr. Ajit Narayan was the Founder and CEO of Avaz, where he built assistive communication products used by children and adults with speech challenges worldwide. He later spent several years at Google as a Senior Staff Software Engineer and went on to work as a Research Engineer at Google DeepMind. He is an alumnus of IIT Madras, where he pursued a PhD in Linguistics after completing his BTech and MTech in Electrical Engineering.