About BYTE LIFE
Two founders. One campus counter. Forty small robots.
We built this for the version of you that's running on four hours of sleep, a deadline, and whatever the vending machine had left. Good food. Good energy. Better you — we mean that literally, not as a wall decal.
Founded by two women, on purpose
Meet Shilpa and Poornima
Co-founders. One runs on cold brew, the other on cold logic. Both agreed on the mascot within a week — everything else took longer.
Shilpa
Co-founder
Cares most about the queue moving fast and the drink being cold when it reaches your hand. If a process takes four minutes, she wants to know why it isn't three.
Signature BYTE: Cucumber
"Sitting down. Genuinely relaxed." Aspirational, she says.
Poornima
Co-founder
Cares most about the brand feeling like it belongs on your phone, not just your campus. Named forty robots and still isn't done arguing about accent colours.
Signature BYTE: Grape
"Cape. Quietly thinks he's a hero." No further comment.
Why a campus, why now
We weren't chasing a food trend. We were annoyed by a gap.
A campus with thousands of students building the next decade of software runs on instant noodles and vending-machine coffee. That gap is the whole business case. Not "healthy," not "wellness" — just fresh, fast, and worth queueing for between labs.
So we picked one counter, one campus, one mascot, and started there. PES University, RR Campus, Bangalore. Everything else — the app, the second branch, the merch — comes after this one works.
Women-led, unapologetically
Not a footnote. Just how it happened.
Two women started a food and beverage business from scratch, mascot and all. None of that needed a special explanation, so we're not going to write one — we're building a brand, and it happens to be led by two women who are good at building things.