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Noise’s flagship Luna Ring now comes to select offline retail stores
Mumbai: Building on the online success of its Luna Ring, Noise, India’s leading smartwatch and connected lifestyle brand, now extends its flagship product’s accessibility and premium experience to select Reliance Digital, and Vijay Sales stores across 6 cities – Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Pune, Bengaluru, Chennai and Hyderabad. Committed to harnessing the power of technology for good, this expansion will allow consumers to experience the premium design and advanced features of Luna Ring firsthand, thereby gaining a deeper understanding of how this innovative wearable can empower them to take control of their health and well-being.
To further expand its reach, Luna Ring’s entry into offline stores marks a strategic move. This in-store presence allows Noise to cater to a wide consumer base, extending beyond the online tech-savvy population and tapping deeper into Bharat. Additionally, by offering a hands-on experience in stores, customers can now explore Luna Ring firsthand, fostering a deeper understanding and appreciation for its features. This in-store presence not only reinforces Noise’s dedication to offering premium products at aspirational prices but also provides a premium touchpoint for potential customers to experience the product immersively.
Commenting on the expansion, Noise co-founder Amit Khatri said, “We take immense pride in introducing the much-awaited Luna Ring at select brick-and-mortar stores, bringing the premium experience to our community of Noisemakers. Through Luna Ring, we want to empower consumers to elevate their lifestyle through seamless technological integration, allowing them to take complete control of their well-being and performance. By joining forces with leading retail partners, we can provide an immersive experience for customers who prefer to explore technology before they buy.”
Engineered to catalyze a transformative lifestyle shift, the Luna Ring is an ideal wearable to augment your daily performance with the best-in-class features in the category. With 98.2% accuracy [validated by IIIT-Hyderabad and Olympics coaches] and a fighter jet grade titanium body, Luna Ring tracks over 70 body metrics, guiding the users towards their full potential with meaningful insights into their activity, readiness, and sleep. Beyond being a smart ring, the new form factor embodies a philosophy of self-discovery, sparking a transformative shift in lifestyle. It encourages users to rise to brilliance by understanding their bodies, recognising their limits, and overcoming challenges. Seamlessly integrating technology into a minimal yet meaningful form factor, Luna Ring transforms data into actionable intelligence for a productive lifestyle. Recently, the brand has also brought the power of Artificial Intelligence to Luna Ring to elevate it as a personalized all-time health companion. Moreover, Noise acquired the AI-powered women’s wellness platform SocialBoat to enhance Luna Ring’s advanced health and fitness metrics and accelerate its innovation trajectory in the smart rings space.
Available in seven-ring sizes and a range of five colours – Sunlit Gold, Rose Gold, Stardust Silver, Lunar Black, and Midnight Black – customers can now choose their preferred option from the retail stores.
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Tessolve lands a semiconductor veteran to drive its next big push
Ravi Kumar Chirugudu, who started his career at ISRO and has spent 35 years building chips and companies, joins the Bengaluru-based firm as president and chief operating officer
BENGALURU: Tessolve has never been shy about its ambitions. The Bengaluru-based engineering services firm already counts 18 of the world’s top 20 semiconductor companies among its clients, employs more than 3,500 engineers across 12 countries, and last year pocketed a $150m investment from TPG. Now it has hired the executive it believes can turn those assets into something bigger. Ravi Kumar Chirugudu, a 35-year semiconductor veteran who once built satellite payloads for ISRO and has since scaled engineering organisations across three continents, joins as president and chief operating officer, effective immediately.
THE MAN AND THE MANDATE
The appointment is, by any measure, a serious hire. Ravi Kumar Chirugudu comes to Tessolve after senior leadership stints at HCL Technologies, Altran and Wipro, where he managed large profit-and-loss portfolios and oversaw cross-regional teams. Over the course of his career, he has been instrumental in bringing more than 1,000 new products to market across the high-tech, energy and manufacturing verticals. Before the private sector claimed him, he began his working life as a scientist at the Indian Space Research Organisation, contributing to research and development in charge-coupled device technology and satellite payloads, a foundation that shaped everything that followed.
In his new role, he will lead Tessolve’s global growth strategy: expanding its engineering capabilities, deepening customer relationships and accelerating innovation across semiconductor and high-performance computing domains. The brief is broad, but the context is specific. Tessolve operates in the $550 billion global semiconductor market, and its recent moves, the acquisition of Germany’s Dream Chip Technologies and the TPG funding round, have sharpened both its reach and its expectations.
Srini Chinamilli, co-founder and chief executive of Tessolve, is characteristically direct about why Ravi Kumar Chirugudu was the choice:
“As we scale our global semiconductor and system engineering capabilities, Ravi’s appointment marks an important step forward. As global semiconductor demand continues to accelerate across industries, it is creating significant opportunities across the semiconductor lifecycle, from design, packaging, validation and systems integration. Ravi’s deep knowledge and leadership in this ecosystem brings the right mix of industry expertise, customer connect and execution capability, which will play a key role in strengthening our position as a trusted global engineering partner and reinforcing our market leadership.”
THE NEW ARRIVAL SPEAKS
Ravi Kumar Chirugudu, for his part, frames the move in terms of timing and culture, two factors that veteran executives tend to weigh as heavily as title or compensation:
“I am happy to join Tessolve at a time when the industry is rapidly evolving towards more complex, AI-driven systems. What stands out to me is its strong people-first culture and its commitment to bringing value to its customers. The strength of its global team, combined with its deep expertise in semiconductor innovation and next-generation product engineering, creates a solid foundation to build differentiated, scalable solutions. I look forward to working closely with the team to drive strategic growth and strengthen its role in shaping the global semiconductor ecosystem.”
The reference to AI-driven systems is not incidental. The semiconductor industry is in the midst of a structural reshaping, driven by the insatiable compute demands of artificial intelligence. For engineering services firms like Tessolve, which offers end-to-end capabilities from silicon design to packaged parts and invests in high-performance computing, high-speed interfaces, photonics and 5G, the moment is both an opportunity and a test. The company says it is well positioned to capture the next wave of industry growth. Ravi Kumar Chirugudu is now the person who has to prove it.
He came in from outer space, literally, and spent three decades learning how the semiconductor industry works from the inside out. Now Tessolve is betting that accumulated knowledge can help it cross the next frontier. In the $550 billion global chip market, the gap between ambition and execution is measured in engineering hours and leadership quality. Tessolve has just gone shopping for both.
