About HeiBuddy
How we got here
Why does the average Indian have 80 apps on their phone but use only 9 of them?
Meet the team
Ganesh leads product, vision, and the partner ecosystem. Before HeiBuddy, he founded Yugasys Software in 2008 and built it into a 15-year R&D house focused on adaptive systems and voice interfaces. He grew up in a small town in Karnataka watching his family run a kirana store — which is where his thinking on fair partner economics started. Lives in San Francisco and Bengaluru.
Preetam runs engineering, voice AI, and the privacy architecture. His background spans 14 years of distributed systems work, including at companies that handle hundreds of millions of voice queries a day. He led the design of HeiBuddy's on-device privacy layer — the part that lets HeiBuddy stay DPDP-compliant without giving up the experience. Lives in Bengaluru.
Chetan handles operations, partner onboarding, and the everyday work of making the platform feel calm to use. His career has been at the intersection of logistics and software — building delivery networks before that was an obvious thing to do. He's the one who decided HeiBuddy partners get next-day payouts. Based in Bengaluru.
Beyond the founders
HeiBuddy is built by 24 people across product, engineering, design, partner operations, and customer support. Most of us are in Bengaluru. A few are in San Francisco. All of us use the app every day.
No team bigger than 7 people. Every team owns a service area end to end.
Every product review starts with a user clip — a real person using HeiBuddy that week. We watch before we discuss.
Once a month, a service partner joins our product meeting. They tell us what's working and what's not. We change things.
Every feature gets a privacy review. If a feature can run on the device, it runs on the device. The cloud is the exception.
Or write to us at hello@heibuddy.ai
Our values
Most companies have ten values written on a wall. We have three — because three is the maximum number of things a small team can actually hold to.
The proof
Words are easy. Here's what we've actually done.
HeiBuddy is the consumer face of work that started inside Yugasys Software in 2008. Adaptive UI systems. Voice authentication. Emotion-aware interfaces.
Adaptive interface that reshapes per user. Voice biometric auth on-device. Emotion-aware response system adjusting tone by context.
Built after India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act became law. We didn't retrofit compliance — it shaped the architecture from day one.
DPDP Act 2023. RBI payment guidelines. India AI governance principles. GDPR for the international corridor. Each reviewed by external counsel before features ship.
The Android app went live quietly in 2024. No ads. No paid creators. 11,000 people found us through word of mouth. That's the only kind of validation we trust.
Service partners keep 100% of what they earn. T+2 settlement. We earn when the ecosystem grows, not by taxing the people who do the actual work.
Two words that contain the entire product argument. Everything else exists to explain why they're true.HeiBuddy product principle — Speak. Done.
Our offices
HeiBuddy is built where it's used. Most of our team is in Bengaluru, where we serve our first city. A small team in San Francisco handles partnerships and the international corridor.
In the news
We launched in May 2026. Coverage is starting to land. The list below updates as new pieces are published.
Direct contact: press@heibuddy.ai
Backed by
We're backed by a small group of investors who believe daily services in India can be rebuilt around fairness. They share our long-term view — the only kind of capital that matches what we're building.
