Ranjan Kumar is a Bengaluru-based technology entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Entropik, a Human Insights AI company he started in 2016 to reinvent the century-old market research industry. An IIT Kharagpur graduate who once headed business at Citrus Payment Solutions before its acquisition by PayU, he built Entropik around Emotion AI - facial coding, eye tracking and voice analysis - to read the subconscious signals behind consumer decisions. He is now building his next venture, DecisionX AI, and describes himself as a three-time founder.
Lava Kumar is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Entropik, a Bengaluru-based Emotion AI company that reads human reactions across facial expression, voice, gaze and attention. After nearly two decades building products at Yahoo, Motorola, Wipro, Operative and Integral Ad Science, he returned from the US in 2016 to co-found Entropik and turn affective computing into a working business tool. He leads Decode, the company's integrated human insights platform, and has become a recognizable voice arguing that market research should measure how people actually feel, not just what they say.
Bharat Singh Shekhawat is a co-founder and Head of Engineering at Entropik, the Bengaluru-based human insights company he helped start in 2016. He builds the systems that turn signals from faces, voices, and eye movement into measurable read-outs of how people feel and decide, and has spent more than fifteen years designing data-intensive platforms and turning research ideas into shipping products.
Entropik is a deep-tech company that builds a unified human insights platform powered by Emotion AI, Behavior AI, and Generative AI. Founded in 2016 in Bangalore, it uses facial coding, eye tracking, and voice AI - backed by 17 global patents - to decode why consumers make decisions, not just what they do. Its flagship products, Decode and Qatalyst, let brands run quantitative, qualitative, media, and shopper research at scale, replacing slow traditional market research with real-time, AI-driven insights used by companies like P&G, Nestle, and JP Morgan.
Arctop is a cognition company building software that decodes the human brain. Its AI platform translates electrical brain-activity signals from everyday wearables - headbands, earbuds, and VR/AR headsets - into real-time, actionable insight about focus, emotion, intention, and memory. Founded in 2016 by neuroscientist Dan Furman and engineer Eitan Kay, Arctop licenses its non-invasive brain-decoding software to developers and enterprises across health, entertainment, education, and government, positioning itself as the intelligence layer between brain-sensing hardware and the applications that use it.
Uniphore is a Business AI company that helps large enterprises put their own data to work without moving or copying it. What began in 2008 as a speech-recognition startup incubated at IIT Madras has become a full-stack, multimodal AI platform - the Business AI Cloud - that powers AI agents across customer service, sales, and back-office workflows for more than 1,600 enterprises in 20+ countries.