Ritu Mehrotra
Founder & CEO
AI, Tech, Entrepreneur
Menlo Park, CA USA
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Ritu Mehrotra is a tech leader, mental health advocate, and global business strategist with two decades of leadership across companies like Booking.com, Zomato, Mahindra etc.. She is the founder of United We Care, an AI-powered mental health platform, and the strategic mind behind ShunyaLabs, its deeptech spinout building world-class AI infrastructure for voice and reasoning.
Under her leadership, UWC grew from a social impact startup to a global force in AI wellness — and in doing so, incubated the breakthrough technologies now commercialized through ShunyaLabs. With a career spanning consumer tech, wellness, and B2B innovation, Ritu brings a rare blend of empathy, scale, and system-level thinking to the future of human-AI interaction.
Having lived and worked in North America, Europe, and Asia, she brings a cross-cultural lens to product design and go-to-market execution. A sought-after voice at the World Economic Forum and U.S. rural-health summits, Ritu champions AI equity and women’s leadership while building technologies that make care more accessible, affordable, and human.
ShunyaLabs
ShunyaLabs is a deeptech company engineering the invisible intelligence layer for human-machine communication. Born from United We Care, its parent company, we didn’t just solve for empathy in the mental health space, we built a voice and reasoning system that broke global benchmarks. Today, ShunyaLabs powers a new class of AI infrastructure: real-time, on-premise, privacy-respecting, and human-aware.
Ritu Mehrotra is also featured on our premiere Features Page, and you can read the Podcast Interview Transcript.
