Priti Moudgill and Sonal Budhiraja are founders of peripherii inc., a hearable tech company. Between them, they have advanced degrees in engineering across three different areas. Priti Moudgill’s engineering background includes degrees from Cornell University; Ithaca, NY; and IIT Kanpur, India.

Priti has held engineering, science, and engagement manager positions at IBM. Priti has a strong product instinct with consumer inventions licensed to Conair and Rubbermaid. She has also worked in the fashion industry, designing and manufacturing high-end accessories for clients like Bergdorf’s, Theory, Holt Renfrew, Tsum, etc.

Sonal Budhiraja has a graduate degree in electrical engineering from LSU and B.Tech from NITK, India. For her second master’s thesis in Biomedical Engineering from Rutgers, Sonal tinkered with programming a glove for use in virtual surgery. Sonal has also worked as a developer and writer at various software companies like SAP and IBM.