This woman entrepreneur’s VR product is revolutionising the building construction industry

Tithi Tewari had an illustrious 15-year stint as an architect before she decided to launch a startup with her husband Gautam Tewari. She was the Senior Director and India Business Head at one of Asia’s largest design and building firms, and has designed corporate offices for Fortune 500, Indian blue-chip companies, MNCs like GE in Pune, GSK in Gurgaon, Indigo iFly Training Centre in Gurgaon, Quikr campus in Bengaluru along with schools like The Shri Ram School in Aravali, Gurgaon which was her first project as an architect. During her career, she combined management acumen and design and project delivery, and after reaching the top levels in her field, Tithi decided to switch gears to entrepreneurship which she thought would be a natural progression for her career.

From her experience in working with various stakeholders in the design industry, Tithi realised that the unwillingness to explore new technologies was a cause of the majority of challenges faced by architects and designers in communicating their design to the clients. To address this gap, she and her husband started SmartVizX, a startup dedicated to providing professional services and point solutions within the realm of design communication to architects, suppliers, and real estate developers by harnessing the power of virtual reality (VR) tech.