
Before virtual events became compulsory, Lalit Mangal was already bothered by who could not enter the room. Airmeet is his second attempt to turn an everyday exclusion into software - and his clearest argument that proximity is a design problem.

Before he sold event software, Varma spent years inside the spreadsheets, sound checks and last-minute saves of live production. Zuddl is his attempt to turn that operator's memory into one system.