Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 7 mos

• Deeply honored to have represented India as the ambassador in the Together for Tomorrow program at the Paris Olympics 2024, alongside 9 trailblazing Solve ambassadors from 8 different countries including the United States of America, United Kingdom, China, Vietnam, Peru, Indonesia and Turkey.
• United by our shared passion for innovation and advancing progress as Samsung Electronics' Solve For Tomorrow ambassadors, we are committed to solve the world's most pressing problems and drive progress to catapult humanity's advancement.
• The opportunity to collaborate with fellow change-makers and engage with Samsung's catalytic leadership, as well as the esteemed International Olympic Committee, has been more than a remarkable and unparalleled privilege.
• Had a lifetime opportunity to be mentored by Samsung's global leaders and doyens. Thrilled to have met Samsung President Mrs. YH Lee, International Olympic Committee President Mr. Thomas Bach, and Chief Marketing Officer of Samsung Europe, Benjamin Braun in Together for Tomorrow.
• My deepest gratitude goes to Shailaja Pathania ma'am, Disha Sharma ma'am, and the exceptionally inspiring Samsung India team for giving me this honour along with unwavering support and guidance.

Dec 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 3 mos

• Always grateful ! Chosen initially in the top 50, travelled to IIT Delhi, received world class mentorship from veterans of Samsung that have scaled products to billions of users, then was selected in the top 10, over the next few months received brilliant guidance on fixing the blindspots of our device. Sleeping every alternate night during those days and incisively implementing the precious feedback with our team, I got an incredible opportunity to experientially learn about leveraging data-driven insights towards problem-solving, researching and prototyping the viability, cascading the decision making process, discovering the GTM and effectively creating a strong social impact with a novel solution, and scaling products technologically, ultimately leading to becoming one of the top 3 grant recipient and winners out of 18,000+ applicants.

Nov 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Sigma Squared selects the world's boldest, smartest, and most forward-thinking entrepreneurs under the age of 26 who build solutions to the world's biggest problems. It chooses entrepreneurs who are on a mission to push boundaries, transcend industries and develop cutting-edge innovations to foster change.
• Sigma Squared was also previously known as the Kairos Society which started in the United States more than 15 years ago in 2008.

Aug 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Launched with a $1 million grant from the Thiel Foundation, Emergent Ventures supports entrepreneurs with highly scalable, “zero to one” ideas for meaningfully improving society and makes a bet on talented individuals with unique ideas for changing the world and is backed by the likes of the Schmidt Futures. It is a true privilege to be shortlisted for further working on Sputnik Brain.
• https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2024/07/emergent-ventures-india-sixth-cohort.html#:~:text=Sri%20is%20a-,22%2Dyear%2Dold%20founder,-of%20Sputnik%20Brain

Jun 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Becoming the youngest winner and grant recipient in the United Nations Development Programme's Youth Co:Lab was an exhilarating journey. Throughout this incredible experience, I had the privilege of being mentored by a world class exemplary panel of clinical experts, domain specialists and influential leaders who have dedicated their careers to amplifying social impact for billions of people.
• As the program unfolded, I realized that our initial focus, which centered around a nonsurgical brain modulation device to alleviate stress, was just the tip of the iceberg. It was challenging at times since our mentors were relentlessly pushing us to expand our horizons and giving strategic guidance to expand bigger. It was during this transformative period that Sputnik Brain metamorphosized on a profound journey to lay the blueprint of re-engineering the future of our human civilization.
• Our vision evolved to become a catalyst for human happiness/pleasure biologically, a beacon that could transform the way humans process productive pain(think hitting the gym or doing those boring excel sheets). We laid our foundational thesis for the long term, which is overcoming demanding intellectual/physical challenges by converting them into pleasurable tasks through harnessing the power of Dopaminergic circuits in the brain. This enhanced focus for the long term was not just about addressing stress but laying the pillar to catapult the entire human species into a new realm of advancement and progress, one in which both the journey(productive but painful activities) and the destination(goals that lead to growth and development of the individual) could become euphoric biologically.

Mar 2023 – Present · 3 yrs

• Sputnik Brain is a Samsung, United Nations Development Programme, IIT Madras and Emergent Ventures(Thiel Foundation) backed deeptech startup building a non-surgical neural interface to democratize happiness/stress alleviation in the brain, through safe, scalable and cutting-edge neurotechnology.
• With the mental health crisis of stress damaging 1 in 3 adults, existing toxic exogenous alternatives causing chronic conditions and irreversible damage to human health, there is a massive unmet need for a safe, non-exogenous & biomarker-driven neurotechnology that can sustainably deliver stress-alleviation.
• We aim to reimagine this by building clinically validated, scalable, frictionless and seamless neural interfaces to unleash a stress-free human civilization.

Dec 2022 – Feb 2023 · 2 mos

• Honoured to have won the prestigious IIT Kharagpur's Empresario out of 2000+ startups that participated in the entire nation. I'm extremely grateful to the esteemed jury panel and the honorable professors for scrutinizing and celebrating Sputnik Brain's technological potential in transforming humanity's mental health through cutting edge biomarker driven neuroscience.

Feb 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 1 mo

• A 21 year old dabbling, researching and grasping the neurobiological basis for human behavior and an exploration into the brain modulation technologies that can be harnessed for causing a positive psychological shift through the subcortical brain regions. Technically reviewed, scrutinized and backed by IIT Madras & the Indian Department of Biotechnology's Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre(HTIC), learnt some crucial stuff in identifying brain targets in mood relief. Imbibed a grounded clinical validation ethic and got the privilege of meeting few talented clinical professionals as well as a drive to start excelling in neuroscience and clinical applications

Dec 2021 – Jul 2022 · 7 mos

• Diligently worked on comprehensive data collection and granular understanding of the problem we're trying to solve. Detailed the Primary, Secondary & Tertiary users, along with mapping the stakeholders, intent, participants, usecase, duration, data collection, prior context setting and synthesis for the experiments. Deep-dived and collected field data on stress, and specified the functional, material, physical, process, usage and financial constraints of the product. Evaluated the Behavior fit, Market fit, Product Fit and Test Fit for the product.

Nov 2020 – May 2021 · 6 mos

• Swag Learning explored different technological approaches of how learning outcomes could be improved through making it engaging. One lesson learned was to have a laser focus on a specific application until scale and most of all, have a well experienced team who knows how to build various pieces of the solution before you even articulate it. Crashed harder than an Internet Explorer browser back then :( Was at an all-time low when it crashed and made me more stressed and fatigued than a truck spring, but it also pointed me to the crux of the human experience, the human biology, which plays an instrumental role in the decision making process, both in the market and outside the market, this practical insight combined with a ton of neuroscience research then prepared me for the OG of all my ventures next :D

Feb 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos

• 1st startup when I was an 18 year old in 2019, when Generative AI was still in its super early research phase. Clarila aimed to solve the issue of personalization & participation in the classroom through AI and gaming. I learnt the tumultuous journey of starting up and my personal zeal of automating human teaching through Generative Adversarial Networks was the fundamental motivation behind it. I could hardly even gather the budgets to build what we wanted to build, but the stuff I learnt structurally and unstructurally in the process included Primary Market Research, Problem Statement identification, Problem Cycle formation, TAM(Total addressable market) with top-down & bottom-up analysis, Beachhead market fit, Product Alignment with Persona, Customer's Decision Making Process with the Decision Making Unit, Risk Mitigation Strategy, Value Proposition articulation & Core Competency identification. It crashed as some of the crucial team members quit during a formative stage, nevertheless, the experience in its peaks and troughs was invaluable and made me understand the fundamentals of starting up (and stopping down)