We are parents who believe that our collective approach to education could do with a significant upgrade. Science has taught us a lot more about learning and young minds in the past century. Our general approach to schooling and education has been slow to catch up. We want to help change that.

At a personal level, we are doing this for our own children. Having explored multiple schools and various approaches, and finding none that really met all our needs and wishes, we decided to take the plunge.

Priyanka Rai is an MBA in marketing from SP Jain, Mumbai and has spent the last 15 years primarily in sales and marketing. Her most recent stint was leading a technology driven digital marketing initiative. But her dream job has always involved doing something with kids - she finds the curiosity and joy of kids far more stimulating. Priyanka handles management, ongoing educational activities, and all operations from diapers to democratic consensus, decibel levels to daily rhythms, and everything in between.

Sai Gaddam  is a technology entrepreneur and computational neuroscientist who loves exploring how minds learn and grow. He holds a PhD from Boston University and a BTech from IIT Madras. Sai’s first book, an acclaimed science non-fiction on human desire, has been translated into several languages. His second traces the unfolding of intelligence and consciousness from single-celled life to humans, machines, and beyond. Sai leads curriculum development and heads Comini Learning, our technology initiative that builds systems and tools for meaningful, personalized, and playful learning.