Apoorv Shankar

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India8 yrs 6 mos experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Led the development of award-winning health tracking devices.
Pioneered innovative solutions for user interaction during the pandemic.
Established manufacturing facilities for consumer hardware products.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in Consumer Electronics and Health Tech innovation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product DesignProduct DevelopmentPrototyping

Other Skills

AI IntegrationBusiness PlanningIndustrial DesignManagementManufacturingMarketing Strategy

About

I'm an Engineer turned Product Designer, with experience in building and scaling Consumer Hardware products. Ultrahuman Home - a smart home device designed to help you understand how your home affects your health. Ultrahuman Ring Air - The lightest health tracking wearable in the world. Setup our in house Manufacturing facility called "Ultrafactory" to build the rings out of Bangalore, India on 2022. Set up a manufacturing unit for the ring in Texas, US in Oct 2024. Ultrahuman Ring R1 - Reddot Design Award 2022 Handkey - an award winning key shaped tool with a sliding cover launched during the Covid 19 pandemic to avoid touching public surfaces with hands. -Featured on BBC Ring(LazyCo) - an AI remote control for the smartphone making day to day interactions 7x faster than phone touchscreens. -Featured on Techcrunch -Won awards and grants from Qualcomm, Alibaba, State Govt of Karnataka, Ministry of MSME, GoI

Experience

Project mirage

Founder

Aug 2025 – Present · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

The world is entering a new era - one where humans, AI, and machines will coexist in ways we have only imagined.
We’re building something in stealth in the AI + Hardware space, reimagining what it means to live and interact in an increasingly intelligent world.
We call it "Project Mirage".
We are hiring across multiple roles. If this space piques your interest and you have built something amazing in the past, let's talk.

Ultrahuman

Vice President of Hardware

Jul 2021 – Mar 2025 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Handkey

Co-creator

Apr 2020 – Sep 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Our team of Product Designers at LazyCo came up with a simple Handheld tool called Handkey to solve a major problem people started facing in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Handkey is an Award-Winning Handheld tool that lets you access commonly used Public surfaces like Elevator Buttons, ATM touchscreens, Public doors, etc. safely without the need to touch them directly with your hands and avoid contracting Covid-19.
Made with a sliding Antimicrobial Brass clamp, an ABS Plastic Cover and a Self-Closing Cap, Handkey is designed to be kept safely in your Pocket or Handbag after every use making it a daily essential to carry whenever we are going out of our homes.
Handkey won us the Adamstart Global Covid Challenge, was featured on BBC, HT Mind and was lauded for its simple yet easy to manufacture design.
We brought the Handkey from ideation-->investment-->DFM-->Production-->Launch on Amazon and Offline sales/Export within 4 months.

Lazy co.

Co-Founder and CEO (acquired by Ultrahuman)

May 2017 – Apr 2022 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

LazyCo is a UX focused Hardware Company re-imagining the way humans interact with day to day digital tasks and devices.
Like any other creature on this planet, humans prefer an easier and faster way to complete a task, we call it the Lazier way. Instead of ruling out laziness as a natural human trait, we embrace it in our Human-Centered Design process equating the Human body's efficiency with Laziness enabling us in finding the easiest and the most efficient ways to get a task done.
Our first product re-imagined Human-Computer Interaction beyond Phone touchscreens.
We were building an AI powered smart ring designed as a Universal Remote control that helps controlling everything from booking cabs, switching lights, taking calls, controlling meetings and presentation instantly. The ring made handling day to day tasks up to 700% faster than Smartphone touchscreens.

Product DesignProduct DevelopmentIndustrial DesignBusiness PlanningMarketing StrategyManagement

National institute of design

Guest Faculty

Feb 2017 – Mar 2017 · 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

Taught Interaction Design (M.Des IxD) students at NIDB about Quick Prototyping for Android App and Hardware Development using MIT Appinventor and Arduino as part of their Prototyping and Electronics Module. The module ended with beautiful demos of functional prototypes of projects made by the 6 teams.