About Us
Our Purpose is to:
Create Excellence in Language Technologies to Connect People Globally.
The Values that are at the heart of who we are:
High Performance
In-Depth Understanding
Making a Difference
What we can be counted on for is:
Be a full-blown Self-Expression of the sheer Joy of Programming.
Founders
Co-Founder & Director
PhD in Machine Learning (OCR & TTS) from IISc
15+ years of product development experience in IBM Software Labs
Leadership training in Landmark Education: 2005-2011
Creator of "Lipi Gnani - the Kannada OCR" and "Madhura Vaachaka - the Kannada TTS" along with Prof. A. G. Ramakrishnan, IISc.
Bhargavi Shivakumar
Co-Founder & DirectorB.Tech in Electronics and Communications
Caused digitization & EPUB eBook creation for more than 1,00,000 pages of Kannada literature from notable authors such as Rashtrakavi Kuvempu, Dr. Chandrashekara Kambara, Rashtrakavi Dr. G. S. Shivarudrappa, K. P. Purnachandra Tejasvi, Prof. Hampa Nagarajaiah, Prof. Kamala Hampana, Rashtrottana Sahitya, Ramakrishna Ashrama and others.
Advisors
Prof. K. Chidananda Gowda
Former Vice-Chancellor of the Kuvempu University
Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the International School of Information Management, University of Mysore
Kannada Sahitya Akademi award in 1986, Sir M. Visveswaraya Technical Award in 1995

Recognition as Startup by Govt. of Karnataka, Dept. of IT & BT, Karnataka Startup Cell.
Registration Number: KBITS/SK-REGN/2019-20/1232

Recognition as Startup by Govt. of India, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade.
Certificate Number: DIPP74666
Elevate 2019 Winner Certificate
FAQs
1) What does the Bhashini logo stand for?
The logo icon consists of the letter "ka" in various Indic scripts in a circle, and the binary code for Devanagari OM Symbol ( U+0950 ॐ == 0000 1001 0101 0000 in binary) in the center of the circle, indicating the coming together of Indic Languages and Computing.