Feb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo · Telangana, India · Remote

Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 7 mos · Chandigarh, India · Hybrid

• Member of Startup India Seed Fund Scheme (SISFS) committee member

Jul 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 8 mos · Virtual · Remote

• Supporting one-on-one mentoring, for securing grants, startup pitch review, lift off program and taking session on rasing funds.

Apr 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos · Punjab, India · On-site

• iHub - AWaDH is an initiative of the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, in the framework of National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber - Physical Systems at the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar.
• Focus Area: Agriculture, Water, IoT, and ICPS Technology
• Support Value: ₹ 110 Cr by DST GoI under NM-ICPS
• Awards to IIT Ropar during the tenure: (in 2024).
• ✅ Best Incubator for significant contribution in Startup and Innovation by Confederation of Indian Industry (23 Aug);
• ✅ Innovation Program Leadership Award by Indian Chamber of Food and Agriculture (ICFA) (31 Aug);
• ✅ BHARAT Incubator Award by Entrepreneurs Association of India (06 Sept);
• ✅ Incubator, Research and Development Award by The CSR Universe (13 Sept)
• Successfully achieved funding 💰for IIT Ropar (iHub - AWaDH)
• ✅ 5Cr financing from Startup India
• ✅ 90 Lakh from HDFC Parivartan under CSR
• ✅ 5Cr from DST NIDHI SSS
• ✅ GENESIS from MeitY
• Some of impact on Startup & Innovation Vertical
• ✅ 145+ startups portfolio
• ✅ Investing over ₹15 crore in 88 startups, with a total valuation exceeding ₹1300+ crore, supported by external funding of ₹96 crore to 48 startups
• ✅ Onboarded over 220+ partner
• ✅ 7 key initiatives, 20+ demo days.
• ✅ Impacting over 2600 startups

Oct 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 5 mos

• Member of Development Coordination Committee (DCC), SubCommittee for the preparation of standards for telecom equipment dealt by FN division, TEC- regarding (Department of Telecommunication)
• Constitution of Development Coordination Committee (DCC) Sub Committee for the preparation of standards for telecom equipment dealt by FN division, TEC- regarding.
• TEC is a technical body under Department of Telecom, Government of India, responsible for Preparation of specification of standards with regard to Telecom network equipment, services and interoperability.
• Development Coordination Committee (DCC) Sub Committee is the subcommittee to
• DCC, which consists of representatives from various stakeholders, for dealing with
• standardization subjects and creating TEC draft documents for standards.
• The standards prepared by TEC are available free of cost on TEC Website at
• https://www.tec.gov.in

Aug 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Remote

• Member of Startup India Seed Fund Scheme for MS-MF

Jun 2022 – Mar 2023 · 9 mos

Apr 2021 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Supporting Innovation Hub at Headstart in Program Management for Incubators
• Bringing research, innovation and IP focus to startup community.
• Supported 25+ Recognised Incubators with Startup India Seed Fund initiatives; and 20+ AICs/Institutions in applying for DST Accelerator, DST Nidhi, iTBI, and various other grants of worth 210Cr+ within a span of 9Month (Internal & External Stakeholders)
• Project leads for some of the top innovation challenges, Incubation Program supported by Headstart in 2021
• Led the Program Design Team at Startup September
• Helped team to grow exponentially in 2021 and impacted 5600+ startup founders through 580+ programs, including 110+ programs hosted in Startup September with the support of 50+ partners.
• Enabling the Enablers (25 Hubs and 50+ partners through various activities)

Jun 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 9 mos · Odisha, India · Remote

• Member of Programs and Committee

Feb 2020 – Mar 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo · New Delhi Area, India

• Atal Incubation Centre - EMPI is supported by Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog, Govt. of India. Incubator for IoT, Renewables, AgriTech, Smart Energy and Electric Mobility.
• Supported with onboarding of startups, communication with various stakeholders, management of compliance, activities, events, program etc and other technical and non-technical activities of the Incubation centre.
• Few of the milestone, supported in
• Onboarding of 15+ startups in less than a span of a year
• Webinars and Events: 20+
• Mentors (Industry and Academia): 20+
• Partners and Collaboration: 10+

Dec 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 3 mos · Dehra Dun Area, India · Remote

• R2E Technologies Private Limited is a Bootstrapped R&D company, recognized as a Startup by Startup India (DPIIT) Govt of India and Uttarakhand Startup Council, Govt of Uttarakhand.
• Winner of Chunauti 2.0 by STPI, Govt. of India; and received equity-based Seed Funding from Next Gen Technology Fund -I, STPI, managed by #Pontaq
• Grant of 30L from Department of Telecommunications (DoT), Govt of India
• Patent reimbursement grant from MSME
• Supporting the R&D and Innovation side of the group as an Advisor (Volunteer). Also, I initiated some programs in 2020 for the team that includes
• Digital Incubation Support for All (DISA)®,
• A Virtual Network of Indians (AVNI)®,
• 3C3P (Connect Collaborate Create), and
• 3Q (Quality, Quantity, Quickness) model.

Jul 2016 – Mar 2017 · 8 mos · Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

• Development of Labs for Academia and University
• Helped team to work with other ventures and agencies
• worked on the research front and supported in managing R&D activities
• Social media campaigning

Mar 2017 – Feb 2020 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Dehra Dun Area, India

• Project Title: Sustainable Grey Water (GW) treatment technology for community buildings
• WTI, DST Funded Joint Project (IIT-Roorkee & CSRI—NEERI): Focused on 6th SDG(UN)
• Responsibility
• Greywater treatment technology development for community building
• Developed Indigenous Patented Technology for Greywater treatment
• Supported various R&D activities, including events, national and international conferences, seminar, IP assessment, Technology Development, R&D website, newsletter and other administrative activities of the R&D department and UPES.

Dec 2014 – Jul 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos · Dehra Dun Area, India

• NSTMIS, DST Funded Project; Focused on 5th Sustainable Development Goal (SDGUN)
• Field Survey Work in 6 States, Compilation of Primary & Secondary information, Data Analysis and Management, Report Writing, Documentation. (UK, UP, J&K, HP, Delhi, Punjab)
• Review report and presentation on half yearly basis for review meeting with DST and ministry approved Project Advisory Council (PAC) members. .
• Various activity of the council by creating online and offline content for events like Coordination of Seminar, Workshop, Conference, Science Popularization Programs, Popular Lecture etc.
• Member Secretary of Website Management Cell (http://ucost.in )
• Increase the council outreach by digital marketing and email campaign, specially for mega Science Congress Program. Handled two event, 9th and 10th Science Congress.
• Assisted in documenting Research Proposal: Preparation of Resource Atlas for Himalayan State of Uttarakhand (Sanctioned).

Jun 2014 – Nov 2014 · 5 mos · Pauri Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India

• Society is working for the last 20+ years for education, skill development, environmental awareness, and other activities in Uttarakhand.

Sep 2012 – May 2014 · 1 yr 8 mos · Almora Uttarakhand · On-site

• During my M.Tech, did Teaching as part of Fellowship program and have worked on the Prediction of Rain Attenuation at Microwave Frequencies. Outcome were published on Scopus Index journal.
• Observed the impact of the Rain Rate at the Microwave frequency for the Uttarakhand Region
• This research work was internally sponsored through TEQIP-II
• Presented 2 Abstract at Uttarakhand State Science Congress (08th and 09th) on the research work.
• Also, this work was presented by one of co-author at International Conference held in Malaysia.