Niharika Kolte Alekar

Heavy industries have the drones, the crawlers, the sensors, the inspection reports. They don't have the one thing that makes them intelligent: a memory that connects them across assets, defects, and time.

Volar Alta was born in a deal room, not a lab. An investment banker's frustration with the structural blindness of industrial asset due diligence became a six-year field education, and eventually a platform.

At the Women to Watch Global Awards 2022 held at the CES technology festival, I was honored to receive the 'Spright Entrepreneurship Award'