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I grew up in Bangalore in a family full of academics and engineers, and the plan was good grades, a good college, research, and giving back. The last point really stuck with me.

At 16 I was building a chess bot on my own. Then came a symptom tracker, because Google called everything cancer. Then, while still in school, I built a reverse-diffusion protocol for watermarking AI-generated video. It reached Y Combinator's final round. We didn't get in, because the market was years away. OpenAI later shipped something close to it.

Being early looks exactly like being wrong until someone carries the technology to a market that's ready for it.

I got to BITS Goa in 2024. It's one of India's best campuses for entrepreneurship, and it had gone twenty years without a campus-wide sports league. In my second semester I co-founded OFFSIDE, and then the BITS Goa Sports Club in the third semester. It now runs leagues in football, cricket, basketball, badminton, table tennis, and eSports, with 500+ players and 100+ people running it. Red Bull sponsored it in year one.

When attendance at external events on campus sat near zero, I ran the numbers and took the incentive problem to the administration. I was selected at a 2.2% acceptance rate, across all years, into 180 Degrees Consulting at BITS Goa to consult for venture capital firms.

I also worked at Perfios, a unicorn. I got the role while talking with the co-founder, then worked in cross-functional teams with the heads of each division, mainly on the debt collection side through CreditNirvana.

I co-founded Agencity with Arjun, and I run the India side of the firm from Bangalore. That means sourcing, screening, diligence, and the events that bring founders to us. We are trying to be the leaders in the new era of founding, from the venture capital fork.

I have over 15,000 followers on LinkedIn. That's the social side of the work, and the curiosity to keep learning.

I'm also President of CEL, BITS Goa, the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Leadership, the E-Cell at one of the best universities for entrepreneurship in India. I lead a team of 50+ people that has produced multiple YC founders, Forbes 30 Under 30, and founders who shape what comes next.

I ran the OpenSwarm Build Jam in Bengaluru. It drew 1,000+ applications, and 300+ builders flew in from outside the city. I built FORGE, the screening platform every founder in our intake goes through. I also built a research engine that tracks deep-tech papers and grants across OpenAlex, arXiv, NSF, SBIR, and CORDIS, so we see a technology before there's a company around it.

I want to be the ecosystem builder. Supporting the early stage is how you get there, and I have the experience and the time for it. That's why we're confident about the work.

B.E. in Mathematics and Computing, along with an M.Sc. in Economics, at BITS Goa.

Before that, math was most of my life. I won 20+ Olympiad medals, cleared the NMTC first round three times, cleared IOQM, and placed 6th and 8th internationally in SOF's International Mathematics Olympiad. I also scored 99.31 percentile in JEE Main and AIR 251 in the ISI entrance exam.