After having understood the technology gap in appliances we use everyday, we started mining the huge opportunity in the waiting. We firmed up our vision and set out to build a POC.

Our design was validated when we won the Arrow Certification. We bootstrapped ourselves for further development.

NDBI – NID (National Design Business Incubator – National Institute of Design) invested in the idea of TIVA after a thorough scrutiny from among 80+ participants.They became our first PE partner in our mission. We started our hardware and mechanical product development.

Capacitive multi-touch display, multi-sensor stack, teflon coated heating elements were all tested successfully. Critical mechanical parts were tooled up successfully.

Various recipes were tested successfully. Though the device was primarily meant for brewing thin liquids like chai, our testing opened up opportunities for brewing thick pot based recipes as well.

We have filed non provisional patent at the Indian Patent Office and secured permission for worldwide patent through PCT applications.

We are targeting to release our TIVA app and cloud service which is integral part of the product. Fully functional “look-alike and work-alike” prototype units will be ready for customer testing. These units will also be subjected to pre-compliance testing.

Mid 2020, we are scheduling to start CE compliance testing after final re-spin of hardware and mechanical. We will be all set to manufacture our pilot batch.

By 3rd quarter of 2020, we hope to make the product available for Indian market. By early 2021, it will be ready for shipping worldwide.