Bhavana Ravindran is the founder and CEO of Earlybird AI. Earlybird makes business finances and accounting painless, stress-free, and intuitive while giving you real time visibility into your business available at your fingertips twenty four-seven.

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👋🏼  How would you explain your job to someone outside tech?

Earlybird AI was born from the idea: what if managing bookkeeping and tax prep were as easy as snapping a picture?

We designed Earlybird AI for modern entrepreneurs or "prosumers", who operate and behave like consumers and expect the same user-friendly experiences to manage business finances like any other digital experience.

We are the most founder-friendly and easiest way for entrepreneurs to manage business finances. Our AI agents slash hours of finance admin into ledgers, reports, insights and compliance - within seconds.

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🧐  What's something about you or your job that would surprise us?

While working for Visa, I saw how seamless consumer payments are, yet small businesses were stuck with outdated, complex tools with little innovation. When I started my first business, I felt this pain firsthand- many founders spend over 15 hours a week on finance operations. This led me to the realization that tools available are designed by accountants for accountants, and required specialized knowledge to navigate simple tasks.

This led us to create Earlybird AI as the most founder friendly and the easiest way to manage finances - we make bookkeeping, financial reporting and tax-prep as simple as snap, tap & zap.

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🏆  What has been the biggest highlight of your career so far?

Building conviction and gaining validation to build my own fintech startup has always been a personal goal of mine since the days of leading over 15+ new digital product launches for Visa and filing for IP twice. Having been involved in the very early design stage of solutions like Globe G-Cash that are now rapidly scaling - i am now super thrilled to have the opportunity to design and scale my own fintech.

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🔍  What's a startup trend or space you're watching this year?

Agentic LLMs and the cross-section of human experiences meeting AI agents.

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💼  What advice would you give someone starting out in your industry?

For all startup founders - 1st would be to gain a crazy amount of personal conviction in what you are building. 2nd, be bold and go all-in—if you’re not going to bet big on your vision, no one else will.

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🗣  What's one thing you can keep talking about for hours?

Travel— ask me about bucket-list spots and hidden gems you won’t want to miss!

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🎥  What's your favorite movie/TV show?

A recent memorable one would be Dune.

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🍨  What's your go-to ice cream flavor?

Almond Brittle at Kind Kones.