Who Are We
We are here for parents—the questions you ask, the worries you carry, and the moments you cherish. Parentune exists to guide, reassure, and support you through every phase of parenthood.
Our Story
Born from a parent's perspective
Nitin, our founder, spent four years in Early Childhood Development & Education. Meeting over 2,000 parents revealed a consistent challenge: the struggle to find prompt, trustworthy advice for their children's health, nutrition, and well-being. He realized that while schools matter, a parent's role is equally vital. This insight sparked Parentune — a platform where parents support each other with a network of like-minded families and trusted experts.
"Each parent can do better with the support of a like-minded community"
— Nitin Pandey, Founder & CEO2014
Parentune founded with a vision to support every parent
2018
Reached 1 Million Android app downloads
2023
Supporting millions of parents across India
Meet the Team
Driven by purpose
Parentuners believe that Culture is co-created every day by our entire team together. We were a team of 5 when we got together to discuss the kind of culture we wanted to build together, and that's how our Culture vision took shape. These 3 pods to our Culture define who we are as people, team and a place to work. We believe in the power of 1 and we have a diverse team. Our team works with a focus on each of our strengths. Our diversity is at the centre of our work and together, we have built the #1 Parents' support of India.
Our team is a mix of young and experienced and talented pool of goal oriented, passionate and purpose driven individuals. Each Parentuner takes pride in their work, owns their zone. We back each other and don’t play the blame game. We believe in learning with each experience through reflection, moving together with structured processes and iterating for excellence.
Being in the close vicinity of the Parentune team’s hustle, one appreciates the purpose, process as well as passion of each teammate and takes pride in their own contribution towards improving the quality of childhood and parenting everyday for millions of parents.
Our Culture
The glue that holds us together
“3 pillars that define who we are as people, team, and a place to work”
Learn
Continuous learning is in our DNA. Each iteration is a virtuous, shared cycle — our team celebrates growth and challenges fortnightly with a no-blame-game ethic.
Fun
We take fun seriously! Every week, a teammate runs a Fun session during core hours. Visit us and you'd mistake us for a carnival.
Speed
Speed means how fast we move towards our goals. Technology is at our core — we learn from failures, iterate quickly, and ship fast.
Parentune Philosophy
What guides us every day
We believe that no parent wants to go by hearsay and that each parent has the right to understand aspects important for their child in detail, to weigh them and then decide what is best for their child and family. We believe that each parent aspires to do what is best for their child and our purpose in this Universe is to make this possible for each parent. We are guided by the parent-first code and we believe in empowering parents with prompt and trusted advice. It’s our belief that relevant, personalized and timely support can empower each parent to do what is right for their child.
Parentune network meet-ups
Parentune Community meetups witness more than 5000 proparents. Parents join in to participate in children's activities, interactive workshops, focused interactions with the Parentune team and the Parentune Expert' panel. The largest such parenting confluence in India, Parentune has had multiple such meetups running to 20,000+ parent attendees spread over 2 days. The meetups are testimony to the bond between parents and to how the community comes together to help each other.
About The Founder
Nitin Pandey, our founder and CEO has a prior experience of 12 yrs in scaling up Consumer focused brands & businesses. He was rated as an Outstanding Achiever by Apollo Tyres. Nitin & his team scaled an Early Childhood Development & Education Business (prek-12) to being the most recognized chain of economy preschools & empowered the firm’s journey to an IPO in 3 years. He learnt in his education stints about parents`' challenges. He understood that parents miss real-time support that can help them raise their child. He realized that a parent’s role in a child’s development is perhaps as or more important than a preschool or school. This prompted him to conduct a research with more than 2000 parents & compelled him to start Parentune. Nitin was recognized as a Braveheart by BD, 40 Under 40 Leader by BusinessWorld in 2018, as an Illustrious Entrepreneur Alumnus by IMI Delhi in 2019 & among the top 3 Entrepreneurs in the Harvard Program among 383 Global Entrepreneurs from more than 60 countries in 2023.
Deepak Kushwaha
Assistant Vice President
Deepak leads Partners’ Success & Strategy for multiple Brand Partners for Parentune. He brings a solid rigor with his previous startup experience to Parentune. He is driven to achieve win-win outcomes. Deepak built the Mombassador program grounds up, making it the only such verified, transparent and precision targeted Influencer program. He has hands-on experience in domains like SAS & ecommerce from his previous stints. Deepak has strong abilities in quantitative analysis & Brand Operations. Deepak collaborates with internal as well as external stakeholders to achieve shared goals. Deepak is a MINT Alum. He loves to read, learn and travel and sometimes he can be found in the gym.
Namrata Nongpur
Head Of Content
Namrata is the Head of Content at Parentune. She is a seasoned media professional with a deep understanding of Content and Marketing. Having served as the Editor-in-Chief of MensXP and iDiva, and later as a Marketing Director at Nack, Namrata has honed her skills in crafting impactful narratives and strategies. She feels privileged to have contributed to the growth of India’s content creation scene and hopes to make an even bigger impact with Parentune. At the center of Namrata’s journey is her deep love for storytelling. Her dog-babies Alexa and Buddy are a constant source of joy, and tending to her plants brings her a sense of calm and fulfillment.
Abhishek Kumar
Engineering Manager
Abhishek is the Engineering Manager at Parentune. Abhishek has a proven track record of building robust and innovative technology solutions. Before joining Parentune, Abhishek has served in various domains like Fintech and Consumer internet startups. Early in his career, he gained valuable experience working with industry giants like NVIDIA. He has successfully built multiple Software as a Service (SaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions. At Parentune, he is dedicated to leveraging his extensive knowledge and experience to drive technological innovation, high standards of quality and performance. He has deep interest in Cricket, loves listening to technology podcasts & follows geopolitics.
Our Advisors
Venugopal Pottu
Venugopal Pottu is a CoFounder and key Technology Advisor to parentune. He now serves as the Director Technology at Delhivery. Venu started with his first venture when he was still on IIT KGP campus. He believes in building Tech smart Businesses. He founded and scaled up a Web and APP services firm, which worked with startups as well as some large corporations. He founded a talent screening SAAS solution before joining parentune as a CTO. He joined parentune just a year after becoming a parent. He grew to being a Co Founder CTO and led a lean Technology team building a scale ready parentune. He has been the recipient of the TECHTOR Award by BusinessWorld in 2018 and continues to be a solid Advisor for parentune.
Sasha Mirchandani
Sasha Mirchandani is Managing Director and Founder of Kae Capital and Co-founder Mumbai Angels. Previously, he was at Blue Run Ventures as Managing Director for the India operations. Before joining Blue Run Ventures he was CEO and Founder of Imercius Technologies. Earlier he was at Mirc Electronics (Onida) where he was Head of Corporate Affairs and new business. His investments include Inmobi, Healthkart,1Mg, Myntra, Porter and Fractal Analytics. Sasha sits on the Boards of Hathway Cable and Datacom Limited, Nazara Technologies Limited, Healthkart, Young Presidents’ Organization (Mumbai Chapter), Parentune and Mumbai Angels Venture Mentors among others. He is a Charter Member at TiE Mumbai and was inducted in their 2019 Hall of Fame as an Outstanding Angel Investor.
Matteo Chiampo
Matteo is the Director, Operations at SecondMuse based in Singapore. He provides technical input to identify and accelerate solutions to prevent ocean plastic pollution in South and Southeast Asia, and contributes to developing ecosystems that promote positive social and economic impact through innovation in technology, business models, and regulation. His work at Eko India Financial Services, a pioneer in providing basic financial services to the unbanked and underbanked, and his consulting on financial inclusion for CGAP, an office of the World Bank, contributed to this transition. Matteo splits his time outside the office among his family, long-distance running, and enjoying the outdoors.
Chanpreet Arora
Chanpreet Arora helms AVOD (Voot) at Viacom18 Digital Ventures. A seasoned Indian media and entertainment industry expert, Chanpreet has close to two decades of experience across strategy, revenue, partnerships and sales operations with media and digital brands. She was responsible for successfully launching VICE Media in India as its CEO. She was also responsible for launching and scaling leading international and local media brands including The New York Times, Times Internet Limited, Discovery Channel, Formula One, India and Ernst & Young in her previous roles. She led some of the most challenging expansions and restructuring of companies in India including NDTV, Network18, Times Group, UTV, Dainik Bhaskar, Zee, and advised government bodies such as TRAI, FICCI, US India Business Council on Public Policy issues. In 2019, she completed the prestigious fellowship at the Reuters Institute for Study of Journalism at Oxford University.
Kanti Prabha
Kanti is the Cofounder of SirionLabs, an international SAAS company. An IIT Bombay Alum, She’s an Angel investor and an Experienced startup and growth company professional. She is excited by complex problems with the ability to find structure in chaos. Kanti is Passionate about Products which can bring about a significant positive impact.
Hideki Fujita
Prior to founding SEGNEL, Hideki was the co-founder of COENT Venture Partners. COENT provided seed and venture-stage funding to entrepreneurs and companies across various sectors in Asia, Most notably: GoGoVan, the first unicorn startup in Hong Kong, Prenetics in Hong Kong, Astro Scale in Singapore. Hideki was director of Business Strategy at GREE, inc., one of the largest mobile social gaming companies. Hideki had previously worked at JAFCO Co., Ltd. the largest venture capital firm in Japan. He was involved in providing support to promising entrepreneurs, growing them into successful investments.
