Founder and CEO of Infiheal at TEDxTCET, Mumbai
On 20th September, 2025, Srishti Srivastava, Founder and CEO of Infiheal, took the TEDxTCET stage in Mumbai to speak about mental health, personal healing, and the choices that shape who we become. The talk was part of TEDxTCET 2025, hosted at Thakur College of Engineering and Technology, Kandivali East, built around the theme Power of Choices, an exploration of the turning points, risks, and leaps of faith that define our paths.
About TEDxTCET
TEDxTCET is an independently organised TED event hosted at one of Mumbai's leading engineering colleges, bringing together speakers from technology, entrepreneurship, the arts, and public life to share ideas worth spreading. The 2025 edition centred on a simple but resonant question: when a moment of decision arrives, will you choose, or will you let the choice be made for you? It is a theme that could not have been more fitting for someone whose entire journey has been defined by choosing to act where others looked away.
What Srishti Spoke About
Srishti's journey began with personal struggles that gave her a deep understanding of the barriers surrounding therapy, from stigma to affordability and access. On the TEDxTCET stage, she brought those experiences into the open, speaking honestly about her own mental health journey and what it taught her about the gaps in how care is delivered, who gets access to it, and what it actually takes to heal.
Growing up, Srishti battled social anxiety from an early age, an experience that continued into her adult life and eventually became the meaning and purpose behind founding Infiheal. Rather than keep that story in the background, she has consistently used it as the foundation of a larger conversation about why mental healthcare needs to change, and who gets left behind when it does not.
The talk reflected what has always been at the core of Infiheal's work: that accessible, stigma-free mental health support is not a privilege but a necessity, and that technology, built responsibly, can be one of the most powerful tools for closing that gap.
The Person Behind the Platform
An IIT Bombay graduate with an Executive MBA from Cornell University, Srishti turned her personal challenges into a mission to make therapy more accessible and inclusive, creating Healo, an award-winning AI mental health companion available in more than 93 languages. Her work has been recognised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Mann Ki Baat, as well as by UNDP, the World Bank, Forbes, IBM, and NASSCOM.
Speaking at TEDxTCET put Srishti in front of an audience of students, engineers, and young professionals, many of whom are at exactly the kind of crossroads the event's theme described. For that audience, hearing a founder speak not just about building a company but about navigating anxiety, self-doubt, and the decision to build something meaningful out of personal pain carries a different kind of weight.
Why This Talk Matters
Mental health conversations in India are still disproportionately held in clinical or policy settings. Getting them onto a stage like TED, in front of a young, technical audience in Mumbai, is part of how the stigma shifts. Srishti's willingness to speak from personal experience rather than from a distance is not incidental to Infiheal's mission. It is the mission, made visible.
Read more about the TEDx Event Here: https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/64349
Watch the Talk Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vk_PCXA-u0
More about Infiheal can be learnt here: https://infiheal.com/
