Startups
As far as I can remember, I always wanted to be an entrepreneur. At an early age, I developed my love and interest in startups and entrepreneurship with my first company - The Testament - beginning in college and growing into a multi crore enterprise by the time I was graduating. Since then, I've built multiple startups with the core motivation always being creating opportunities for people. I believe "something great is always around the corner". Always.
Kavisha.ai
I'm currently building Kavisha.ai - the future of digital profiles.
With Kavisha, Influencers and Brands create their Digital Avataars to engage their fans. A Digital Avataar on Kavisha is like your “talking” website (or Youtube Channel), which helps you give your fans delightful interactions 24x7x365.
Not just that, your Digital Avataar also gives your fans a chance to connect with each other. This makes you a platform for lifelong, beautiful relationships, where people find new connections, and deeper love for you.
Create your Digital Avataar with Kavisha, and experience the magic of the future of digital profiles. Get started now! :)
Cread
Cread was a social network focused on helping artists create and monetise their work online.
The platform developed a community of over five thousand writers and graphic artists across India. We worked on "creator economy" before it was a thing, but unfortunately had to shut down due to dearth of capital.
SpotHealth
SpotHealth was a health focused platform started with the mission of "making healthy living a mass movement".
The platform allowed people to bond with health aficionados through "Sports Dates" and active communities, order innovative healthy food, and consult the best doctors, nutritionists, therapists on call/video.
Our app and community did really well for a while, but was ultimately brought down by Covid.
Seneca
Seneca was a distraction free smartphone project.
It began as a concept note posted online, which soon snowballed into a viral movement of magnanimous proportions. The 'Open Pitch for Seneca', which was the foundational document behind the project got over $200,000 in Angel commitments, 1000+ customers and thus INR 1.5 Crores in preorders, and over 15 Million impressions online.
Despite creating an MVP with a legendary technologist, and getting an LOI from one of the leading education companies of the country, we couldn't raise the $5 Million we set out to raise in time. This led me to move on from the project and start building Virtual Voter.
The Testament
The Testament was a platform which allowed companies to hire managed workforces on an ad-hoc basis across India.
We worked towards reinventing the future of Manpower Outsourcing with our underlying mission of creating work opportunities for people across the globe.
Under my leadership, the company did a business of over a Million Dollars, while also employing over 1500 people across 300 cities of the nation. We invested heavily in multiple path breaking technologies (which didn't work). As a consequence, the company had to scale down and now works on select high value consulting projects.
Virtual Voter
Virtual Voter was a social network focused on polls.
Why polls? Because with people's attention spans falling, insights better come quick. And we realised that the quickest way to get an insight on something is through tapping on a poll.
After proving to be even more accurate than the biggest official exit polls during Indian General Elections of 2024, Virtual Voter planned to launch in US.
Despite its early successes, Virtual Voter had to be shuttered due to s fundamentally long gestation perio, and a lack of success in fundraising in the face of it.