Daira EdTech is revolutionizing education through AI-powered solutions, ensuring every student receives personalized learning support.
Anikaet Irkal never set out to be an entrepreneur. But growing up in a family that built a nursing college and hospital—not just as a business but as a mission to uplift students and communities—changed everything. His father, Dr. Satish Irkal, instilled the importance of discipline and business acumen, while his mother, Dr. Vani Irkal, demonstrated how education could be a powerful tool for social good, sponsoring young women’s studies to give them opportunities they otherwise wouldn’t have had, prominently being done through Dr Y N Irkal’s Educational and Charitable Trust every year for over a decade. Anikaet learned from a young age that success was about impact, not just growth. That belief, coupled with his background in mechatronics, automation, and artificial intelligence (AI), would one day drive him to co-found Daira EdTech, a groundbreaking initiative aiming to solve one of the most critical challenges in education today: making learning inclusive and accessible for every student, no matter their background or abilities.
The Genesis of Daira EdTech: A Mission Born from Family Legacy
Daira EdTech’s story starts with a desire to address a problem that many overlook in the education system: the lack of tailored, accessible solutions for students with learning disabilities. The realization hit Anikaet when he, along with his co-founders Rishikesh Amit Nayak and Shrawani Choudhary, saw how deeply underdiagnosed and underserved students with learning disabilities (SLDs) were in India.
Anikaet grew up with an intimate understanding of the transformative power of education, seeing firsthand how his parents worked tirelessly to uplift communities through knowledge. The core values of education—equality, empowerment, and opportunity—shaped his world. But he also knew that while many students had access to education, there was still a significant gap in how learning challenges were understood, identified, and supported.
This led Anikaet to leverage his expertise in mechatronics, automation, and AI to develop a solution: Jiveesha—an AI-powered platform that uses cutting-edge technology to diagnose Specific Learning Disabilities (SLDs) early, accurately, and without stigma. With Jiveesha, Anikaet hoped to democratize the process of diagnosis and intervention, ensuring that no child with an SLD would fall through the cracks.
But it wasn’t enough to build a tech solution. For Anikaet, Daira EdTech represented more than just a business venture—it was a mission to create a lasting change in how students with learning challenges were supported, from diagnosis through to long-term educational care. This led to Daira EdTech’s holistic approach: a fully integrated ecosystem that spans the entire journey of a student—screening, support, and sustained development.
A Holistic Approach: Combining Technology and Human Insight
Daira EdTech stands out because of its commitment to not just building technology, but building an entire ecosystem designed for students with learning challenges. In addition to the core product, Jiveesha, Daira EdTech also integrates multi-sensory platforms and personalized learning pathways to ensure that students receive individualized support and guidance.
Shrawani Choudhary, one of the co-founders, brought to the table her unique background and expertise in engineering, automation, and AI. She has worked on multiple AI-driven projects, including renewable energy solutions and space exploration initiatives, but it was the problem of educational access in underserved communities that truly motivated her. Her passion for making tech a tool for social good resonates deeply with Daira’s vision. She works to ensure that the AI systems used in Daira’s tools—such as Jiveesha—are not only powerful but also affordable and scalable, ensuring that all students can benefit.
Meanwhile, Rishikesh Amit Nayak, another co-founder, focuses on ensuring that Daira’s tools and platforms are data-driven and effective. He brings his experience in using AI and satellite imagery to solve problems in agriculture to bear on the problem of learning disabilities. By integrating real-time data and stress monitoring, Daira’s systems help create more accurate diagnoses and intervention plans for children with learning disabilities, offering insights into both cognitive development and emotional well-being.
Innovation and Accessibility: The Role of AI in Education
Daira EdTech’s flagship solution, Jiveesha, uses AI in groundbreaking ways to make SLD diagnosis more accurate, accessible, and stigma-free. The platform does not only assess students through standard test responses. It also tracks real-time physiological and behavioral indicators, such as stress, hesitation, gaze, and latency, to capture non-verbal cues that can indicate neurodivergence. This approach goes beyond simple right-or-wrong answers and considers the child’s emotional and physiological response during assessments, allowing for a more comprehensive understanding of their learning challenges.
By integrating these AI-driven assessments with a user-friendly, multilingual platform, Daira EdTech ensures that students, teachers, and parents can access the support they need, regardless of language or geographic location. Currently, Daira supports 22+ Indian languages, including Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, and Odia, with plans to expand further. This focus on linguistic inclusivity is made possible by the Bhashini initiative, a government-backed project that ensures seamless integration of regional languages into AI-powered tools.
Building a Sustainable and Inclusive Education Ecosystem
Daira EdTech’s mission goes beyond just offering a tool or a platform. It’s about creating an ecosystem that integrates education technology with existing educational systems, ensuring that learning disabilities are not only identified but addressed and supported across the long term. Through partnerships with governments, schools, NGOs, and enterprises, Daira works to embed inclusive education into mainstream systems, helping policy makers and educators implement tools that serve all students, especially those with learning challenges.
The company’s alignment with national education policies such as NEP 2020, NIPUN Bharat, and the RPwD Act further strengthens its role in promoting accessibility and inclusion in education. By actively engaging with organizations like MPSEDC, DEPwD, and IndiaAI Mission, Daira is positioning itself to scale its solutions across India and beyond, working closely with institutions to validate and expand its impact.
A Vision for the Future: Empowering Every Student to Thrive
At the heart of Daira EdTech’s mission is the belief that education has the power to transform lives. Anikaet, Shrawani, and Rishikesh share a common vision: that every student—regardless of background, ability, or socio-economic status—should have access to the support and tools they need to succeed. Their backgrounds and expertise, from mechatronics to AI to education access, all converge to form the foundation for Daira’s work in making this vision a reality.
Through Jiveesha and their broader ecosystem of tools, Daira EdTech is not just creating a tech solution. It is building a movement—one that seeks to level the playing field for all students, particularly those with learning disabilities, ensuring that every child has a fair shot at success.
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Daira EdTech continues to push the boundaries of education technology, working tirelessly to ensure that every student gets the support they need to succeed. By combining the latest advancements in AI with a deep commitment to inclusion and accessibility, Daira is transforming the way learning disabilities are diagnosed and addressed, giving students the tools they need to thrive.
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