Our Story

The idea for Lavvi didn't happen in a boardroom or a tech hub. It happened on a family trip to a beautiful hill station in India.

During the long drive, a stark reality of Indian travel became painfully obvious. Whenever we needed a restroom break, the difference in experience was staggering. As a man, finding a discreet corner or the side of the road was an unspoken, culturally accepted convenience.

But for my mother and other women travelers, the situation was entirely different. Finding a washroom was a stressful mission. We would drive for miles looking for a petrol pump or a decent restaurant. And even when we finally found a public toilet, it was almost always too unhygienic to actually use.

That trip stuck with me. I realized that the problem wasn't necessarily that toilets didn't exist - it was that there was no reliable way to know where they were, and more importantly, how clean they were before walking in. I decided to build something to solve this, and that's how Lavvi was born.

It's a simple question: why do we need Lavvi when we have standard map apps? Because knowing a toilet exists isn't enough; you need to know if it's clean, safe, and usable.

Lavvi relies on the power of community. By crowdsourcing real-time reviews and conditions, we turn static map points into reliable lifelines, especially for women who face the brunt of poor public sanitation. We built Lavvi because access to a clean washroom is a fundamental right, not a luxury.