Whack Sorts.
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Angels at concerts
Was at an Usha Uttap concert when I was caught eyeing someone’s truffle fries. The man, stretched his arm offering me a handful; and we got chatting. A couple minutes in, he mentioned he was an Angel Investor and within a fortnight he helped me raise $1Mill for Hunter (my second startup) !!
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President of the AMC - Nidaan
Boating in Srinagar, I just to happened to bump into the state head of tourism and hospitality of Kashmir. Took a gander and pitched Nidaan - 9 days in, he connected me with the president of India’s largest conglomerate of doctors (15k doc) - And now I’m lobbying against the supreme court of India.
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Billionaire Leo Joseph
I was connecting Leo’s team with a couple schools in India - helping broker philanthropic collaborations for his Foundation. As I wrote to him, he went through my site and paste in his calendly. A week later, I was the director of mental health for his foundation (ISL) across 200+ schools !
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Founder of Zerodha $$$
Nikhil Kamat (Indian Tech Billionaire) concluded his talk with “People pump 10’s of millions on mere decks nowadays.” So, in a crowd of 300, I stood straight up and asked for $15Mil on the spot. Right after he called me on, and within a week I found myself on zoom with their family fund.
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People asking for Help
I was hoping to bring on the Founder of Kofluence as an advisor to Hunter. Instead, I found myself brought on as an advisor to them !
I also helped a coalition of Doctors in the UK set shop in india (cancer research machine stuff)
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Ask me how and why
How I convinced the computer graphics head of qualcomm to quit his job.
25+ Doctors have blocked me on Whatapp.
I was a better investment banker than my dad (raising 2Mill for Diagright).
Who wants prose when you can have poetry.
Dabble
Founder - CEO - 2023
Ask me about : How I built my team around 10 Pivots.
Building the “after-after party.”
Working with 12 of the most amazing folk in Seattle to bring back the chaos of what it means to be a “friend”.
We want high octane interactions only. If you’re a bore, don’t join dabble. Can’t be killing the mood.
Be fun - It’s good for the planet.
Nidaan
Chairman - 2021
Ask me about : How I bluffed Microsoft and Sion Hospital into signing a deal with me.
Currently working with the President of the AMC to pass regulations against the supreme court of India.
Institutional Collaborators with Karya - Microsoft Research India + Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Dominoes India, Sion Hospital, The Calcutta Foundation and The Period Society.
We're creating India’s first standardised guide on Preventive Health.
My team of 7 helped bring on 75+ Doctors, Designers and Lawyers to actualise Nidaan.
Worked closely with the board members of Max, Manipal and Sion Hospitals to propound Nidaan for India’s largest medical study.
Alyne
CEO - Founder - 2020
Ask me about : How I convinced Mukesh to be my cofounder and introduce me to Accel Partners, Blume and more.
How I was brought down to reality in my first International pitch to billionaire Pejman Nozad (Pear VC).
Creator of the “Real Time Recurring Render System” (RRR).
Brought about a novel digital experience to bolster online apparel sales.
Our Idea -> Light Stage + GANs = Hyper Realistic Avatars to visualise clothes and fits.
Devised a new GAN to imbue physics based simulations in computer graphics.
Brought on folk from Qualcomm, Intel, Samsung RND, Stanford, MIT and IITD to build Alyne.
Raising $15Million with Mukesh Singh (Ex CEO Amazon India)
Karya - Microsoft
Business Outreach and Tech Lead - 2021
Ask me about : How I got 400hrs+ of Audio Libraries in 3 days.
Worked with Project Karya (Microsoft Research India) on building Audio Processing tools to accurately access and label Undefined Vernacular Language Recordings.
Distributed code to over 24k phones in rural India to enhance Audio Quality and Verification.
Actively propagated $2.2 Million in Job Offerings to Women in Rural India.
Proud to say that both my mentors made it to 2023’s Time’s 100 Most Influential People in AI list (Along with Sam Altman and more !)
Shoutout Manu Chopra and Kalika Bali !!
Sukoon
CEO - Founder - 2021
Ask me about : My toughest conversation ever - building Sukoon with a mother who recently lost her daughter to suicide.
India’s First Forum for Bereaved Parents.
Worked closely with 20+ Psychiatrists, and Children’s therapists from New York to Australia to India to establish “Parent’s Therapy”
We’ve reached over 50 Thousand Parents !
Find Interviews with our Psychiatrists, Psychologists and consulting Special Educators on Sukoon.co.in
Helped direct billionaire Leo Joseph philanthropic per-view on mental health via ISIL across 200+ schools in India.
Smaaash
Project Founder and Lead - 2019
Ask me about : I convinced the CTO of Smaash to bet on a 16 year old.
Lead and Produced an all new Mixed Reality Gaming Arena for Smaaash.
Worked directly with the CTO on introducing a PAN-India Robotics Competition and initiate Robotics Courses with Smaaash
Go-Kart
Project Lead - 2019
Ask me about : Everything - this was crazy.
At 17, designed and built an entire Go Kart from Scratch. Spent 18 months upgrading Torque Converters, Carburettors, Differentials and Bypassing Governor Arms.
Designed a patent pending Dog-Clutch Mechanism and drifted a conventional 212cc engine at 50mph !
Shout out to Magnus Motors and Ha-Ko Engineering for sponsoring me !
My lesser known startup.
“You’ve got balls of Steel” - Venture Catalyst
Incubated at NEXT (UW)
Investment Banking Stint
Finalist in a couple Hackathons
Professional Squabbles.
I also Design ✨
Barely TamE
“Never underestimate a man who always overestimates themselves, they aren’t always wrong.”
A Belligerent Monomaniac
“Being wrong only gets you closer to the truth.”
A Naive optimist
“Sometimes when you’re placed in the dark you think you’ve been buried. But really, you’ve been planted.”
An Undecided Embryo
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LIYSF - Imperial College London
1 of 10 to Represent India at the London International Youth Science Forum.
My thesis on Dynamic Projectile Drops in received a Top 15 mention among 355 participants from over 70 Countries!
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Advanced Math Academy - UPenn
1 of 3 Indians to represent the Nation at the UPenn Advanced Math Academy.
The youngest participant to win an award for my contribution to Optimising Yield on Computational Stock Analysis !
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National Rifle Shooting Champ
District, Zonal, State and National Level Rifle Shooting Champion.
School Captain from 2015 - 2018. I’m just too good at this stuff. If you ever come home I shall show you my Rifle :)
I need a Mood
