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Volunteer Experience
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Advisor
AngelList India
- 8 years
Science and Technology
Serve as an advisor to AngelList India team
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Advisor
Microsoft Ventures
- 4 years
Science and Technology
https://www.microsoftventures.com/accelerators/bangalore
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Advisory Board Member
Mentor Graphics / Cre8Ventures
- 1 year 3 months
Science and Technology
Cre8Ventures is a part of Mentor Graphics and incubated the Indian Microelectronics Academy.
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Advisor : USAID / New Ventures India
USAID
- 5 months
Environment
Advisor to a clean tech water purification startup
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Advisory Board Member
Village Capital
- 6 months
Economic Empowerment
Advisory board member for Village Global's Future of Work India 2021, in collaboration with International Finance Corporation. This initiative seeks to support ventures helping build the workforce of the future across India: bridging skills gaps, upskilling and reskilling workers, and helping job candidates prepare for jobs of the future.
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Advisory Board - Next Generation Committee
UK India Business Council
- 1 year 1 month
Economic Empowerment
Advisory Board @ UK India Business Councils - Next Generation Network Committee.
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Global Panel Member
MIT Technology Review
- 1 year 10 months
Science and Technology
The MIT Technology Review Global Panel is an exclusive, curated panel of executives and thought leaders from all over the world assembled to share thoughts, insights, and opinions on the latest trends in technology.
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Advisory Board Member
The Digital Fifth
- Present 6 years
Science and Technology
India's leading fin-tech think thank.
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Volunteer : Ashoka Youth Ventures
Ashoka
- 1 year 5 months
Human Rights
Mentor to Project Disha - Aimed at imparting life skills to girls from shelter homes
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Mentor : VALA
MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition
- 5 months
Economic Empowerment
VALA connects consumers to anything they want from India's informal market, and uses a mobile phone platform to do it. VALA is a directory service for India’s informal market, but the system is far from static. VALA proactively connects consumers to informal vendors with the best, lowest priced goods and services in the market.
Most importantly, VALA promises to pull vendors up the socio‐economic ladder by drastically increasing their daily market activity.
VALA is founded by…VALA connects consumers to anything they want from India's informal market, and uses a mobile phone platform to do it. VALA is a directory service for India’s informal market, but the system is far from static. VALA proactively connects consumers to informal vendors with the best, lowest priced goods and services in the market.
Most importantly, VALA promises to pull vendors up the socio‐economic ladder by drastically increasing their daily market activity.
VALA is founded by alumni from Harvard - Kennedy School of Government & MIT. -
Mentor : Social Connect
Dasra
- 3 months
Environment
DASRA : Social Connect - Mentor to Husk Power Systems.
Honors & Awards
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Action Group
Parliamentarians with Innovators for India
COVID-19 pandemic is the greatest challenge that India has faced since its independence. The CoronaVirus does not see our differences. So it is time that we UNITE to fight it. The pandemic may scale stressing our uneven public health system as well as breaking the back of our economy and our people. The force of our knowledge and innovations must scale faster to propel the Nation back into safety and progress. This platform brings together Members of Parliament across parties, States, and…
COVID-19 pandemic is the greatest challenge that India has faced since its independence. The CoronaVirus does not see our differences. So it is time that we UNITE to fight it. The pandemic may scale stressing our uneven public health system as well as breaking the back of our economy and our people. The force of our knowledge and innovations must scale faster to propel the Nation back into safety and progress. This platform brings together Members of Parliament across parties, States, and ideologies with an Action Group of top organizations and experts to propel concrete ideas and capable teams. The Action Group will meet every week to select the best ideas that can be recommended to State Governments and enabled for funding.
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Kautilya Fellow
India Foundation & Ministry of External Affairs - Govt of India
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40 under 40 Alternative Investment Professionals
Indian Association of Alternative Investment Funds & Edelweiss
IAAIF's "40 Under 40" campaign is presented by Edelweiss, which aims to reveal some of the standout talent in the Indian alternative investments industry across different verticals like fund management, advisory, operations, compliance, consulting, technology, marketing, product design and fund raising.
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International Scholar & Founders Scholar
Illinois Institute of Technology
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Young Leaders Council
AIMA
Organizations
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The Digital Fifth
Advisory Board Member
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India Foundation & Ministry of External Affairs (Govt of India)
Kautilya Fellow
- Present
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