Ostronaut

About

Built by operators, for operators.

Ostronaut turns customer-facing floor interactions into evidence-linked business events, built in India for the noisy, code-mixed reality global vendors can’t handle.

A store associate helping customers on a retail showroom floor
The floor we’re built for

Mission

Read the floor.

Every customer-facing team has thousands of human-to-human interactions every week that never become operating data. We turn the business moments inside them into the intelligence the company currently goes without.

We are a small team. The ambition is not. India runs on customer conversations in Marathi, Hindi, Hinglish, and mid-sentence code-switching that global vendors cannot handle. That is the market we built for.

Team

The humans behind the platform.

Meera Khokhani

Co-founder & CEO

Meera is co-founder and CEO of Ostronaut. She has spent her career on one question: how do you make a workforce measurably better at its work, at the scale of a country?

She was on the core team that operationalised the National Skill Development Corporation’s Skill India Mission, standing up international skill centres and overseas workforce-mobility programmes and measuring their impact alongside state governments and large employers. She then co-founded Pragmatic Leaders, the Y Combinator-backed academy that trained more than 10,000 product professionals across India, a faster and far cheaper path to capability than an MBA.

Ostronaut points that same mission at the frontline: turning the conversations that happen every day on pharmacy floors, sales desks, and service counters into coaching that lands with the people who live them. She holds a master’s from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences.

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Talvinder Singh

Co-founder & CPTO

Talvinder is co-founder and CPTO of Ostronaut, leading product and the intelligence behind it. He previously co-founded Pragmatic Leaders, a practice and readiness platform that worked with thousands of professionals across the region.

The evidence base from Pragmatic Leaders, what actually moves capability in human-to-human selling, sits underneath Ostronaut’s coaching layer.

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Beyond the founders: engineering, design, product, and customer success, based in India, working with customers across multi-site retail, B2B sales, and D2C.

Backers

Ostronaut is a product of Ankai Inc.

  • Y Combinator
  • Goodwater Capital
  • Harvard Management Company

Careers

We’re not actively hiring.

We are a small team and we hire deliberately. If you’re a retail ops veteran who has run a fleet of stores, or a founding ML engineer who has shipped speaker-diarised, Indic-language audio systems into production — we want to know you exist.

Email talvinder@ostronaut.ai directly. Short note, what you’ve built, what you’d want to build here.

Press

Press.

For press kit, podcast bookings, and analyst inquiries, email press@ostronaut.ai.

Brand assets, screenshots, and the logotype are available on request.