Strella
Founded
2023
invested
2025
Leadership
Lydia Hylton
Lydia Hylton
Co-Founder/CEO, Bain Alum
Kelsey Brennan
Kelsey Brennan
Founding Growth Lead, Bain Alum
Strella is an AI-powered customer research platform that helps product, design, and insight teams uncover deep customer understanding at unprecedented speed. The platform automates qualitative interviews, performs real-time synthesis, and enables teams to conduct hundreds of in-depth conversations in hours instead of weeks — turning manual research workflows into fast, scalable insights used by innovative companies across industries.

Strella was co-founded by Lydia Hylton (CEO), who is a Bain alumnus, and Priya Krishnan (COO).