Nov 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

Jan 2019 – Nov 2023 · 4 yrs 10 mos

• Leap Club enables urban families to order fresh, organic & healthy groceries from local farms & have them delivered within 12 hours of harvesting.
• We raised a seed round of ~$1M from marquee investors such Goodwater Capital, Pareto Holdings, Arjun Sethi of Tribe Capital & Kunal Shah of Cred among others. We were also part of Y-Combinator's W21 batch and supported by Social Alpha on our journey.
• Check us out here : https://leapclub.in/ or get in touch via: shubham@leapclub.in to know more.

Oct 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 5 mos · Delhi, India

• Change Engine is an innovation ecosystem builder with two focus areas: AI & Non-profits. We share data driven insights/resources and work with founders through our flagship ACE accelerator program.
• Our focus within the development sector is to support non-profit founders build organisations that can have systemic scalable impact & create playbook for non-profit entrepreneurship.
• Within our AI focus, we want to help create differentiate AI product companies from India.

Nov 2016 – Jan 2019 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

• Developing machine learning powered energy disaggregation tech to identify how much energy is being consumed by appliances at every moment in a house by just analysing its smart meter data.

Mar 2016 – Aug 2016 · 5 mos · Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

• Developed machine learning techniques for disaggregating smart meter energy data for commercial buildings.
• The technique was used to obtain a breakdown of energy consumption of a commercial sports arena in Germany.
• This appliance level or sub-system level energy consumption could be useful for remote energy audits and for identifying avenues for energy efficiency improvements

Feb 2016 – Jan 2019 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Greater Delhi Area

• Impactpreneurs is building the world's largest listing of social enterprises.
• We want to build the best digital product to bridge the information gap that exists currently in the social/impact space making it easier for investors to find interesting startups, help entrepreneurs connect with partners and enable the overall community to discover exciting work happening in this space.

Jul 2015 – Aug 2015 · 1 mo · Dubai

• Developed business case & financial models for integration of storage technology into industrial scale solar diesel hybrid power plants of capacity between 25-100kW.
• Analysed the technical feasibility of integration of different storage technologies for high power applications.
• Partnered and negotiated successfully with international partners and closed 2 deals.

Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr · Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

• Initiated the energy group to facilitate cross-disciplinary discussions around energy issues
• Organized conferences to discuss the technological challenges & business opportunities in the area of smart energy and energy access.

May 2013 – Jul 2013 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Conducted an on-ground needs assessment of solar powered digital education tools covering 19 rural schools in Karnataka.
• Designed energy efficient solar powered computers labs for rural schools.

Aug 2012 – Jul 2013 · 11 mos

• Managed Project Aanch that aimed to introduce low smoke cookstoves in poor communities.
• Mentored 26 students in project management, business modelling & field work helping them to impact the lives of communities by creating self-sustainable micro-enterprises.

Apr 2012 – Mar 2013 · 11 mos

• Conceptualised first of its kind tool for the Indian market for helping users to customize the solar PV system and facilitate the installation.
• Designed the solar PV product range of the company.

Dec 2011 – Dec 2011 · 0 mo · New Delhi

• Performed a comparative study of various battery technologies for use in solar lanterns.
• Evaluated the performance of solar lanterns and home lighting systems against standards set by Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, India.