A wife-husband team has created an award-winning smart crib that can lead to a connected platform to monitor babies' health
Radhika Patil and Bharath Patil are the wife and husband co-founder team at Cradlewise. It is a “babytech startup” based in San Francisco and Bengaluru, Radhika says.
They offer one of the most sophisticated connected smart cribs that can rock a baby gently back to sleep—thousands of units have been sold in the US—and help parents monitor their child. The potential to build further on this award-winning product is huge, investors agree.
The Patils have master’s degrees in electronics from the Indian Institute of Science. They were classmates, project mates, and then life mates, she says. They both worked in the industry for some years, but entrepreneurship was always close to their heart, she says.
Cradlewise was a sort of fait accompli, when they had their first child, a daughter. And their industry experience helped.
Radhika worked on power management systems for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors. And Bharath, at Texas Instruments, invented a sensor technology that led to 15 patents and a business that went from proof of concept (POC) to $20 million.