For decades, English learning in India has been stuck in textbooks. We teach grammar, but we don’t teach confidence.
Millions can read and write English perfectly but freeze when asked to speak.
SuperNova is solving this “fluency gap”.
Founded by Maharishi R B (ex-IIT Madras), Anirudh Coontoor, and Nawin Krishna (ex-Swiggy, Medlife), SuperNova is an AI-native personal tutor that helps people speak English fluently through real-time conversation.
This isn’t just a content library or a video course. The core of SuperNova is “Miss Nova”, an AI agent that acts as a 24/7 judgment-free conversation partner. It listens, corrects pronunciation instantly, and explains mistakes in the learner’s native language (like Tamil, Hindi, or Malayalam).
The market? The massive population of students and job seekers in India’s Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities who need spoken English to unlock career mobility.
The insight came from home. Maharishi watched his parents struggle with a WhatsApp-based English class where feedback took 24 hours. He realized AI could close that loop in milliseconds — turning passive learning into active speaking.
It’s a classic example of using deep tech to solve a uniquely Indian problem with empathy and scale.
We can’t wait to see the SuperNova team and other AI-native innovators at the AIBoomi Annual in March.
Let’s celebrate the builders.
w/ Jay Ingle & Dikshant Joshi
