Jun 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 10 mos

• Backing and mentoring high-potential founders as their first cheque investor.
• Beyond capital, I guide product strategy, team building, and early growth, acting as a hands-on thought partner during critical early months. Current Active Companies:
• Pollen Studios: A New York-based team of top-tier developers and strategists helping companies flex and expand their engineering capabilities - pollenstudios.xyz
• Leap10x: Deliver safety & soft-skill trainings, compliance programs, onboarding workflows to thousands of frontline and bluecollar workers seamlessly - leap10x.in
• Turyq Design Studio: A UI/UX and design studio helping tech brands craft beautiful, functional digital experiences - turyq.com
• Nuvanta AI Technologies: Building modern AI-driven software solutions for businesses, blending human creativity with cutting-edge automation - nuvantaai.com

Mar 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 1 mo · India

• PayTunes is a programmatic audio advertising platform with an in-house DSP and is the fastest growing digital audio advertising company in India. The DSP handles more than 350 Million requests per day and serves ads to top music apps like Spotify, ganna, wynk etc.

Aug 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 8 mos · Karnal, Haryana, India

• Hcode helps startups assemble and manage a team of world-class software developers dedicated to bringing their vision to life. Hcode takes care of your end-to-end engineering needs, including development, deployment, testing, and maintenance. Hcode has helped build products for many startups across the world, including ones backed by top VCs like YC and Sequoia.

Oct 2017 – Aug 2018 · 10 mos · New York

• Concept design for an online application that protects kids from cyberbullying, and other forms of harmful content on the internet. Raised funding, built a team and a MVP.

Jul 2016 – Oct 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos · New York

• Building a scalable deep learning training platform using tensorflow to power deep video understanding.

Apr 2015 – Mar 2016 · 11 mos · Bangalore

• Build an artificial intelligence-based platform that allows users to shop and perform e-commerce transactions over chat. www.zoyo.ai
• Chat and tell Zoyo what you are looking for. Zoyo will suggest products based on your preferences. Zoyo could also tell you latest news, imdb ratings, horoscope, translations, weather, PNR status etc.
• Zoyo was acquired by MagicTiger. Helped MagicTiger release new app called magicX. MagicX topped the charts on GooglePlay.

Jul 2013 – Mar 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Founded a small development boutique focussing on web application development with clients in USA. Noted Projects included - building first protoype of springboard.com (500 startups) Integration with LMS for Verificient Inc., funding platform for LeadAngels
• Pivoted to build a software and hardware solution which turns any modern TV or monitor into a vibrant digital sign. This can be used for anything from displaying advertisement to live noticeboards/dashboards.
• Clients included Airport Authority of India, Delhi, IITDelhi, National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI), Karnal , Delhi Public School, Doordarshan Bhawan, Directorate of Wheat Research.
• We pivoted to Digital out of home (DOOH) marketplace, where we did 15 installations in Delhi, partnered with 4 Different Independent advertisers offline, having a network of 300+ Screens.

Apr 2013 – May 2013 · 1 mo · Online

• Listing some of the online tools I have built as a hobby:
• cloudyexcel.com : Top link on google for comparing excel sheets online and few other keywords. Used by people from across 190+ countries and 100,000 comparisons done annually.
• mldta.com : 2K+ Machine Learning Datasets made searchable, 2k+ monthly active users
• VideoHoroscopes: A youtube channel with more than 3K videos and 10K views.

Jun 2011 – Jun 2013 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

• My work here primarily consisted of building controls on operation processes to identify risk. This included requirement gathering, business analysis, product analysis, regulation analysis, working with big data, data analytics, system design, web application design and implementation.

May 2010 – May 2011 · 1 yr · New Delhi Area, India

• Founded a robotics/embedded based company with 2 co-founders. Built a state of the art digital signage product, installed it in IIT campus.Developed and conducted series of Robotics workshops, with robotics kit designed and manufactured in-house.

May 2009 – Jul 2009 · 2 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Build a automated tool to reconcile the prod and dev output of report generating tools and deployed the tool on web for one-click use.