Most women juggle a lot. Like, a lot a lot.
We know the mental gymnastics of making mac and cheese for tiny humans at 6 PM, then dialing into a global team meeting at 10 PM. We've mastered the art of hosting 15 people for Thanksgiving while our own doctor appointment gets pushed to "maybe next month."
We've walked in your shoes – the ones that are somehow always running in three directions at once. And we know that living in constant overwhelm mode isn't just exhausting. It holds you back from doing what you actually want to do.
This is what we set out to change.
This is why we built Melo.
No more overwhelm. No more managing life with tools built for the 1990s. No more having to do everything by oneself with no help and no break.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
We believe the work of raising a family and the next generation is real, skilled, economically consequential work — and no woman should have to trade her own future to do it. Melo exists to redistribute that work, so she doesn't have to.
MISSION
Melo redistributes the mental load of running a household — sharing the invisible work across the whole village, so it no longer falls to one person to hold it all.
VISION
A world where raising a family never quietly costs a woman her career, her income, or her ambition — and the next generation grows up without the same default.
The people behind Melo
Ajantha Suriyanarayanan
Founder, CEO
I am a behavioral researcher and product strategist, who has, over 20+ years, led large global teams across corporate giants and scrappy startups. I’ve built my career on understanding what makes people tick, and what makes teams thrive. Throughout this journey, I’ve had the privilege of mentoring talented women climbing their own career ladders.
As a mom to two wonderfully chaotic little ones - whom I call my adorable brats - and part of the sandwich generation, I know firsthand the weight of carrying it all. The burnout hit hard, but the revelation hit harder: this wasn't just my problem – it was universal.
When I couldn't find an effective affordable solution to address the invisible cognitive load that disproportionately falls on women's shoulders, I decided to build it myself. That's how Melo was born – a platform designed to tackle the relentless invisible load that keeps women from excelling in their chosen paths and truly thriving.
Sometimes the most personal problems demand the most innovative solutions.
Praveen Alavilli
Co-Founder, CTO
I am a technology leader and builder. As a principal founding engineer at Poynt, I led the engineering of the hybrid commerce platform that drove the startup's acquisition by GoDaddy. My background includes leading API Architecture at PayPal and building core authentication systems at AOL and Amazon.
After a 24-year career, I took a break to reconnect with family, only to find that my daughter had grown from a kindergartner to a college freshman while I was heads-down. The harder thing I noticed: my wife Sailaja had been running the entire backend of our family — every schedule, every dependency, every handoff — undocumented and invisible to me, because the frontend I lived in was so smooth. I'd spent a career monitoring distributed systems and somehow missed the most critical infrastructure I relied on. I'm building Melo so that work finally gets shared — so no woman has to trade her own future to keep a family running.
