Most people who build AI companies come from tech. Gloria Krishnan is not most people. She comes from the classroom. And that changes everything about how BigSpace AI was built.
For 22 years, Gloria worked inside Singapore's Ministry of Education, widely regarded as one of the most rigorous and effective education systems in the world. She was a classroom teacher, a curriculum leader, a mentor to beginning teachers, and eventually an Education Officer at the Academy of Singapore Teachers, designing and delivering professional learning programmes at national scale. She has taught students, trained teachers, briefed ministry directors, and written speeches for a government minister. She knows, at a very deep level, how people learn, how organisations change, and how capability is built.
When AI began reshaping every industry, Gloria didn't panic. She paid attention. "I watched people across every sector, professionals, business owners, educators, executives, struggling to understand what AI actually meant for their work," she says. "Not the theory of it. The practical reality of it. What do I do differently on Monday morning? Nobody was answering that question in a way that stuck."
"The problem was never that AI was too complex. The problem was that the people teaching it had never actually taught anything before. I have. For 22 years. That is what BigSpace AI is built on."
She co-founded BigSpace AI to bridge the gap that no tech company was positioned to close: the human gap. The confidence gap. The gap between knowing AI exists and actually being able to use it to transform how you work, lead, and compete. BigSpace AI works with professionals, teams, and organisations across Singapore, Australia, and globally, helping them integrate AI into their workflows, develop in-house capability, and move from being reactive about AI to being genuinely empowered by it.
The insight she brings is rare: she is not a technologist trying to understand people. She is an educator who has thoroughly learned the technology. That is a very different thing. And for the professionals and organisations she works with, it makes all the difference.