Pranoti Nagarkar-Israni
Pranoti Nagarkar-Israni is the co-founder and CTO of Zimplistic Inventions Pvt Ltd based in Singapore. She is the inventor of the Rotimatic and holds 8 patents.
Early life and education
Pranoti studied mechanical engineering from the National University of Singapore and then went into the product design field. Only in her 20s, she left her job at a leading electronic manufacturer to start-up on her own.
Personal life
Born and brought up in Pune. Pranoti came to Singapore on Singapore Airlines’ Youth Scholarship to do her A-Levels at National Junior College. She pursued a degree in mechanical engineering. Went into Product Design at National University of Singapore. Married to Rishi Israni (co-founder of Rotimatic).
Career
Amtek Innovation Design centre (January 2007 – January 2009 )
Rotimatic
This is the world's first ever robotic appliance which makes flatbreads like rotis and tortillas fully automatically from flour and water.
Awards
- Winners Of Start-Up@Singapore 2009 - Zimplistic
- Nominated as top 25 - Asia's Best Young Entrepreneur 2009 by Business Week
- Intel Berkeley Technology Entrepreneurship Challenge 2009 - Third Prize [1]