Bobble AI's Co-Founder & CEO Ankit Prasad : an Artificial Intelligence innovation start-up that empowers billions of everyday conversations of over 50 Million users from India and around the world

Ankit Prasad- Co-Founder and CEO, Bobble AI

Ankit Prasad founded Bobble AI; backed by 18 reputed angel investors, SAIF Partners - one of the largest VC in India, and Xiaomi - India's No. 1 Smartphone brand. He works along with Bobble AI team on cutting edge technology to make internet experience smarter on devices. Most recently and notably, Ankit was honoured on Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2018 List among a few other popular millennials. Besides this, he is also recognized in "BW 40 Under 40" list, "50 Fabulous Innovative Leaders" and as a TEDx Youth Speaker.

Ankit’s leadership has enabled the team to partner with top companies in the relevant industries. He believes that the input layer (Keyboard, Voice, Camera) which connects the end-users with smart devices would better understand and influence users' behaviour. The work being done by Ankit’s team to scale Artificial Intelligence features like, speech-to-text, next-word predictions, transliteration, swipe typing, etc. across language barriers is surely boosting users' smartphone and internet productivity.

Ankit has a longstanding interest in technology & startup. He wrote his first program at the age of 6 and was formally appreciated by the District Collector. By the age of 16, he had made his first technology startup profitable. He dropped out from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi to pursue his entrepreneurial ambitions. At IIT Delhi, he won several major awards including Best Fresher, and Best Chief Editor. Ankit has a ferocious appetite for risk-taking and pursues objectives with relentless resourcefulness.

LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/in/prasadankit

About Bobble AI

Bobble AI is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) innovation start-up that empowers billions of everyday conversations of over 50 Million users from India and around the world via its highly expressive and personalized content including stickers, GIFs, and emojis, AI-powered contextual recommendations, speech-to-text and many other innovative technologies via its diverse portfolio of smartphone keyboard applications. Bobble Indic Keyboard (supporting 36+ Indic languages), the flagship product of the company and Bharat Keyboards in Bangla, Marathi & Malayalam – have the potential to revolutionize the usage of the vernacular languages, communication pattern in regional societies affect the consumer behaviour of around 536 million internet users from India who primarily rely on Indic languages. Bobble’s Indic Keyboard is regarded as the highest-rated, most engaging, and retaining keyboard in the world, surpassing Google's Gboard and Microsoft's Swiftkey. The company has created the powerful Mint Keyboard which is the default keyboard of Xiaomi phones.

The platform’s data intelligence vertical is GDPR compliant, anonymised, and aggregated insights with no compromise on user’s privacy. Backed by India's top seasoned investors including SAIF Partners, Sachin Bansal, Binny Bansal, Deep Kalra & Affle, rapidly growing start-up from India, Bobble AI is transforming the over 441 billion dollar Digital Advertising industry through its innovative marketing tool Conversation Media Marketing (CMM), which has helped reputed brands like Cadbury, ITC Sunfeast Yippee!, Kingfisher, Adidas, Reebok, ABP Weddings, Happydent, Ludo Supreme and Oreo in reaching out to their relevant audience of millennials and GenZies in a non-intrusive way through precise targeting using AI technology. Besides CMM, Bobble AI is also disrupting the Digital Advertising landscape through its Programmatic Advertising arm.