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Emergent Ventures India, 10th cohort
From Shruti Rajagopalan:
Emergent Ventures India, Cohort 10
Tanish Patare, 15, is a high school student in Mumbai and has won consecutive gold medals in the Science Olympiad Foundation’s National Science Olympiad for the last seven years. He received his grant for general career development.
Shreepoorna Rao, 22, an IIT Madras graduate passionate about aerospace, founded a crypto DeFi aggregator startup in 2021. He has developed patented drone-based robotic arms and medical delivery drones capable of flights up to 300 km carrying 500 g payloads. He received his EV grant to build a UAV with a 5-meter wingspan.
Soni Wadhwa, teaches literature at SRM University, Andhra Pradesh, and curates PG Sindhi Library, a digital archive of post-partition Sindhi literature in India. Her research explores the development of Sindhi literature, within Indian literature more broadly. She contributes regularly to Asian Review of Books, and Digital Orientalist.
Rakshita Deshmukh, is beginning her PhD in Neuroscience at IIT Kanpur, studying the impact of N3 sleep on adaptive decision-making and anxiety using EEG. She received her EV grant to present her research on N3 sleep’s effects on anxiety-induced learning at MIT.
Manoj Ramaiah, 24, received his EV grant to build Ariima DeepTech Circle, a talent cluster connecting postdocs and PhDs with industry, startups, and investors for translational research. Manoj is passionate about the history of science, particularly Asian and Indian, and dedicated to introducing first-generation graduates to startups.
Munna R. Shainy , 24, is a neurotech enthusiast specializing in developmental and affective neuroscience. He received an EV grant to attend the COGNESTIC 2024 Summer School at the University of Cambridge.
Basedcon, by Neil Shroff (26), Shruthi (30), Akash (27) and Yash (25), hosts conferences on unpopular but significant ideas in Indian tech, culture and society. The grant supports global expansion and micro-grants connecting ambitious Indians worldwide.
Nithilan Ravikumar, 17, for general education and career support including participation at the International Physics and Philosophy Olympiads. He actively pursues research in physics, explores the future implications of AI, and holds cybersecurity certifications
Parth Patel, holds a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering and is passionate about robotics. He received an EV grant for career development and is currently applying to graduate programs.
Ramya Prakash, 16, to pursue electronics and robotics and for general education and career development.
Tamzid Rahman, 16, is a social entrepreneur dedicated to eliminating child mortality caused by blood shortages in Bangladesh. He received an EV grant to develop and scale BloodLink, a peer-to-peer blood donation app and database.
Varsha Korimath, 16, is a highschooler in Belagavi, Karnataka. She is a National Tinker Champ member and a Pratibha Poshak scholar. She has authored a book, conducted tinkering workshops, and participated in the ATL Tinkerpreneur Bootcamp. She received an EV grant to support her STEM education and general career development.
Rajsuthan Gopinath (21) and Shanjai Raj (19) for building end-to-end legal AI agents through their startup Airstrip AI. Their current project develops an intelligent AI business lawyer democratizing access to legal resources.
Zubin Sharma, a social entrepreneur, founded Project Potential in rural Bihar. His EV grant supports research into innovative talent identification and acceleration strategies for high-poverty regions with limited resources and institutional support, particularly outside India’s tier-1 cities.
Sumuk Hegde, 22, for developing an automated beach-cleaning robot that detects, segregates, and disposes of waste.
Tithi Paul a master’s student in Environmental Pollution Management (Ecotoxicology) at the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, and develops algorithms using zebrafish fin patterns to assess water safety. She received an EV grant for travel to present her work at international conferences.
Sachin Raghunath Pachorkar is a professor specializing in entrepreneurship and corporate governance. He founded Project Bandhan, generating tribal employment through bamboo crafts, and established Kumbhathon to address logistical challenges of the Nashik Kumbh Mela using technology. He received an EV grant for STEM education initiatives in rural and tribal schools.
Surya Maddula, 17, for developing an open-air active noise cancellation system through his startup Whisperwave.
Those unfamiliar with Emergent Ventures can learn more here and here. The EV India announcement is here. More about the winners of EV India second cohort, third cohort, fourth cohort, fifth cohort, sixth cohort, seventh cohort, eighth cohort, and ninth cohort. To apply for EV India, use the EV application, click the “Apply Now” button and select India from the “My Project Will Affect” drop-down menu.
And here is Nabeel’s AI engine for other EV winners. Here are the other EV cohorts.
If you are interested in supporting the India tranche of Emergent Ventures, please write to me or to Shruti at [email protected].
Emergent Ventures, 42nd cohort
Chris Wong, University of Chicago, non-invasive blood glucose monitor.
Akira Li, 17, Sydney, Australia, quantum computing.
Jon Sine, Washington DC, to study China.
Alex Kesin, San Francisco, Substack on pharma, drugs, the FDA and other biomedical issues.
Stephen Voss, northern Virginia, photography of northern Virginia data centers.
Liam Baldwin, Atlanta, economics videos on YouTube.
Juan Cruz Lopez del Valle, Boston University, and Argentina, for general research support in behavioral political economy and a DC trip.
Teo Kitanovski, Nashville, North Macedonia, prosthetics and bionic arms.
Kristina Fort, Prague, center for progress studies.
Abi Olvera, writing and thinking about progress, WDC.
Jonathan O’Brien, Australia, progress movement for Australia.
Emma Nicolai, London, and possibly Stanford, space and satellites.
Bahadir Sirin, Stockholm/Brussels, a Brussels conference on progress and progress studies.
Will Maclean, London, greater energy and architectural efficiency.
Solomiia Kozolup, Kyiv, film and Ukrainian cultural heritage.
Are recent cohorts in worse health?
From the abstract:
Our sample is individuals in the Health and Retirement Study who are aged 51 to 54 at baseline and are followed for up to two decades. We find that limitations in most domains have increased for younger cohorts, especially pain and cognitive impairment. People are more impaired in their 50s, where such impairment used to occur in one’s 60s. However, this appears to be a speeding up of impairment more than a long-term increase. Among people in their late 60s, health for later cohorts is similar to health for earlier cohorts. To evaluate the implications of these trends, we simulate the work capacity of adults just before reaching age 65 based on the health status of people at this age and the relationship between health and the labor force outcomes of younger people. Overall health among those age 62 to 64 remains high, despite impairment striking at younger ages. However, among people without high school degrees, less than half are predicted to have the capacity to work full time by age 62 to 64, and over a quarter are predicted to be receiving SSDI.
That is from a new NBER working paper by David M. Cutler, Ellen Meara, and Susan Stewart.
Emergent Ventures, 9th India cohort
Ari Dutilh is a 19-year-old entrepreneur, community builder, and photographer. This grant is to help continue our work on UltraRice, a project to solve malnutrition in India by using ultrasonic treatment to create cost-effective, nutrient-scalable rice.
Rukmini S is Founder and Director of Data For India. Rukmini is an award-winning data journalist and won her first EV prize for her pandemic podcast, ‘The Moving Curve’. Her first book, ‘Whole Numbers & Half Truths: What Data Can and Cannot Tell Us About Modern India’ awon literary awards.
Sworna Jung Khadka is an ESG entrepreneur. Stalwart International Private Limited is an agro startup funded by Emergent Ventures which leases unused government owned lands and non-agricultural but arable lands for the production of Cassava, drought resistant crops.
Suryesh Kumar Namdeo is a Senior Research Analyst at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, working on biosecurity policy and science diplomacy projects. He has received his EV grant to support his research and conference travels in biosecurity policy in India.
Susan Thomas – XKDR Forum aims to help litigants in India get more predictability about how their legal cases will progress in Indian courts. They propose to publish specific metrics of case progression, at a quarterly frequency, by developing a database of commercial cases from multiple courts in India. You can read more about XKDR Forum’s work in this field here.
Jayesh Rohatgi is an entrepreneur and law student at LSE, with an educational startup, Dialogue Dynamics. Targeting top independent schools globally, Dialogue Dynamics focuses on the four most critical sub-skills of communication: presenting viewpoints, strategic questioning, identifying misinformation, and mastering persuasion.
Aakash Agrawal is a neuroscience and AI researcher who investigates the neural mechanisms that enable fluent reading. He aims to leverage his research and develop gamified cognitive tasks to help children improve their reading skills without adult supervision.
Ada Choudhry is an 18-year-old student from Bareilly, India, who received an EV grant to build AI supply chain platforms under the mentorship of Shell executives. The goal is to reduce supply chain risk and improve procurement data quality. She will be beginning her undergraduate studies at Minerva University in San Francisco, and you can look through her portfolio here!
Aditya Kedlaya is a hardware product designer and entrepreneur from Bangalore. He received his EV grant to develop prototypes of carbon capture modules through his startup. He founded Matterak Technologies to design, develop and deploy products related to decarbonization including carbon capture, infrastructure for carbon neutral fuels production and energy efficient hardware.
Adon Banker, is 16 years old and currently enrolled in the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program at Chatrabhuj Narsee School, Mumbai, with a major in Computer Science. His project, the Jewish Virtual Museum, aims to create a lasting legacy for the Bene Israel community in the history of India. He also will develop an application that analyzes antisemitism globally in real-time using Twitter data.
Aishwarya Das, from Bangalore, is the co-founder of Dirac Labs, a spin-off from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His team is developing quantum magnetometers for GPS-free navigation.
Akash Kumar Seth, a software developer, is working on freeCodeProjects.org, which will help potential students become job-ready under the mentorship of experienced developers absolutely free.
Ayush Majumdar, 22, originally from Calcutta, is a writer and translator currently translating the works of Rabindranath Tagore.
Chetan Kandpal works in computer science, cognitive science, and now neuroscience, and his research delves into human social dynamics, particularly how information transmission and normative assumptions are influenced by the presence of agents in multi-agent environments. Chetan received the EV grant for the opportunity to present his work on social dynamics at MIT.
Balaji Bangolae Lakshmikanth, Dr. Lakshmi Santhanam, and Deepika Gopal are the founders of Renkube, a deep-tech solar startup to lower cost and increase safety. The EV grant will support their efforts in creating a Fire Prediction and Prevention solution for rooftop solar installations, aimed at preventing fire accidents and improving overall safety.
Digvijay Singh is building large scale diagnostics (LSDs) at Drizzle Health to eliminate epidemics by testing large volumes of food, water, and eventually air in real-time.
Druhin Lamba is a BS-MS student in Mathematics and Computing at IIT Roorkee. He received his EV grant for education and career development.
Khushi Mittal is a 20-year-old from Lucknow and is interested in propulsion systems. She received an EV grant to take a gap year from University of Alberta in Canada and move to Bangalore to work on her projects related to aerospace and build a hardware community with the Wayfarers group.
Manas Goyal, a 23-year-old Impact Finance entrepreneur, is the founder of All Asia NetBanking, a platform dedicated to providing accessible and seamless banking solutions. He received an EV grant to develop a new, innovative model that simplifies access to unified banking solutions. Currently based in the US at MIT, Manas is focused on making banking easier and more accessible for everyone.
I thank Shruti Rajagopalan for the information and selection. And here is Nabeel’s AI engine for other EV winners. Here are the other EV cohorts.
Emergent Ventures winners, 41st cohort
Claire Wang, Cambridge, Mass. whole brain emulation.
Minji Kim, high school, Seoul, to build a running app.
Collin Juurakko, Vancouver, UBC, cryobiology.
Stevie Miller, Carnegie Mellon, to write for Works in Progress, general career development.
Ruhan Khanna and Louis Merriam, WDC Sidwell high school, to decipher the Indus script.
Marwa Attaii and Anush Mutyala, Vancouver UBC, for a student-run nanofab.
Malhar Manek, University of Chicago, Mumbai, general career support.
Lan Dao, San Francisco, a non-profit for artificial wombs.
Adam Jarvis, in support of @teortaxes, Palmerston North, NZ, and Argentina, @teortaxes trip to the Bay Area.
Ashley Mo, Toronto, and Aoi Otani, Cal Tech and Harvard, biomedical innovation.
Raahim Lone, Saudi Arabia, Eastern province, Al Khobar, background Pakistan, sophomore in high school, a query optimizer to reduce database latency.
Matt Faherty, New Platz, NY, study of the National Science Foundation.
Mehran Jalali, San Francisco, doing LIDAR of Mesoamerica.
Mark Lutter, Washington, DC, American free cities and governance.
Sulaiman Ghori, San Francisco, Khan Space Industries, self-replicating space probes.
Arc Prize, Greg Kamradt, San Francisco, measuring AI progress.
Nucleate DoJo, and Iris Sun, toward a house and other support for biomedical researchers.
Daragh Jordan, Galway, Ireland, AI to manage social media feeds.
Abe Callard, San Diego/Chicago/Japan, to make a movie about conversation.
Epoch AI, and Jaime Sevilla, Madrid and remote work, AI safety and measurement.
Again, here is the AI engine, built by Nabeel Qureshi, for searching through the longer list. Here are previous cohorts of EV winners.
Emergent Ventures, Taiwan cohort
Thanks to a very generous donor, we now will be starting a Taiwan cohort in Emergent Ventures. If you are in Taiwan, or know anyone in Taiwan who might be a good choice, of course consider applying or recommending as such. Thank you!
Emergent Ventures winners, 40th cohort
Akhil Kumar, 19, Toronto, global health issues and general career development.
Janet Shin, Berkeley, neurotech and brain imaging.
Diana Leung, San Francisco, AI and bio and machine learning.
Kyle MacLeod, Oxford University, economics videos on YouTube.
Aarav Sharma, Singapore, high school, to work on exoskeletons and AI.
Megan Gafford, NYC, writings on aesthetics, Substack.
Alice Gribbin, Berkeley, to write a book on Correggio and beauty.
Kaivalya Hariharan, MIT, to work on man-machine collaboration and AI, with previous EV winner Uzay Girit.
Eve Ang, Singapore, high school, biosciences and building exoskeletons.
Alex Chalmers, London area, writing on tech, progress, and policy.
Elanu Karakus, Stanford, Turkey, a smart flower to help bees find flowers.
Ishan Sharma, Washington DC, policy work on geologic hydrogen.
Parker Whitfill, economics PhD student at MIT, evaluations of differing AI systems.
Sympatheticopposition.com, @sympatheticopp, San Francisco, writing and Substack.
Yes there are further EV winners and an additional cohort coming soon! Apologies for any delays.
Again, here is the AI engine, built by Nabeel Qureshi, for searching through the longer list. Here are previous cohorts of EV winners.
Emergent Ventures Africa and Caribbean winners, sixth cohort
Maya Chouikrat, Algeria, to support training for an international olympiad of informatics team.
Mercy Muwanguzi and Kwesiga Pather, Uganda, for sanitation robotics to be used in medical centers.
Johan Fourie, South Africa, Professor of Economics at Stellenbosch University, to write a graphics novel on classical liberalism in a South African context.
Ken Opalo, Associate Professor, Georgetown University, for blogging on African economic development.
Katharine Patterson, Botswana, to support graduate internship in robotics research at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Cyril Narh, Ghana, for general career development.
Jon Ortega, travel grant to Silicon Valley.
Alex Kyabarongo, Uganda, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Makerere University, to pursue graduate school in the USA for biosecurity.
Joshua Regrello, Trinidad and Tobago, first Steelpannist to perform on the Great Wall of China, Guinness Record Holder for longest steelpan performance, for general career development.
Liam O’Dea, London/Argentina, data science research into parliamentary records of the Caribbean for the last 200 years.
Joshua Payne, undergrad at University of Chicago, for research into mRNA vaccine optimisation, and career development.
Abdoulaye Faye, Senegal, developing Catyu, a firm that designs remotely operated robots.
Devaron Bruce, Barbados, PhD candidate at UWI, to support research in political reform in the Caribbean.
Tony Odhiambo, Kenya, undergrad at MIT, for enhanced training of top performers in mathematics olympiads in Kenya.
Sebastian Naranjo, Panama, PhD candidate at Renmin University of China, to support research on the diplomatic relations of China in Central America.
Ivoine Strachan, Bahamas, for research into designing and developing a VR bodysuit
Phumiani Majozi, South Africa, to establish a think tank promoting classical liberalism in South Africa
Pearl Karungi, Rwanda, for research into redesigning menstrual products.
Emmanuel Nnadi, Nigeria, Microbiologist, to support visiting research at the University of Waterloo in phage therapies.
Youhana Nassif, Egypt, to support an animation and arts showcase in Cairo.
Frida Andalu, Tanzania, to support visiting research in petroleum engineering at the University of Aberdeen.
Rupert Tawiah-Quashie, Ghana, to support his research internship at Harvard University concerning symbolic reasoning in AI models.
I thank Rasheed Griffith for his excellent work on this, and again Nabeel has created excellent software to help organize the list of winners, using AI.
Those unfamiliar with Emergent Ventures can learn more here and here. The EV African and the Caribbean announcement is here and you can see previous cohorts here. If you are interested in supporting this tranche of Emergent Ventures, please write to me or to Rasheed.
Emergent Ventures 39th cohort
Karina Bao, San Francisco, to translate the autobiography of Morris Chang.
Theodor Grether-Murray and Marta Bernardino, high school in Montreal, Portugal, noise cancelling technologies for the ocean.
Jim Larsen, Denver, electricity and infrastructure and geothermal energy in Indonesia, Substack.
Sunir Manandhar, San Francisco/Kathmandu, ports and transportation, and better automation in industrial vehicles.
Ahad Hassan, NYC, to attend a neurodiagnostics conference in Abu Dhabi.
Kenneth Sarip, high school in San Ramon, CA, neurotech.
Jasmine Sun, San Francisco, for full-time writing and Substack.
Stella Tsantekidou, London, general career support, to write a book on feminism.
Conrad Scheibe and Daniel Coupak, high school in the London area, rocket company.
Badis Labbedi, Tunisia, University of Chicago, physics and math.
Ivan Prymachenko, Kyiv, Prometheus, scalable quality online training programs for Ukrainians.
Helena Rosengarten, Berlin soon Cambridge MA, “Ozempic for sleep.”
Ansh Chopra, San Francisco, to turn classic books into video using AI.
Again, here is Nabeel Qureshi’s software for querying about EV winners.
Emergent Ventures winners, 38th cohort
Sandro Luna, Austin, easier ways of getting blood pressure readings.
Divyan Bavan, Ontario, 17, machine learning for biology.
Michael Domarkas, 17, Surrey, UK, general career support for the biosciences.
Saras Agrawal, 17, Alberta, AI to monitor heart attack risk.
Charmaine Lee, NYC, music composition and performance.
Jodi Ettenberg, Ottawa, podcast on how to deal with adversity.
Jiya Singhal, Stavanger, Norway, high school, AI to detect skin cancer.
Janine Leger, Texas, for building full-time communities around the globe.
Rishi Mehta, Toronto, a device to limit falls of the elderly.
Ivan Lin, Sydney, 16, travel grant to the Bay Area.
Fearghal Desmond and Ryan Morrissey, Cork and Limerick, Induct, and a travel grant to SF.
Filip Cerny, 18, Prague, general career support, building out entrepreneurship in Czechia.
James Vitali, London, to write a book about the political future of the UK, general career support.
Harry Law, Cambridge, UK, historian of science, to write a history of AI.
Joshua Muthu, Warwick, UK, economic models of cities and building.
Kyla Scanlon, Venice, CA, to produce content on economics, including a new documentary, and also for travel support.
Pieter Garicano, WDC and Europe, general career support, writing on Europe, progress, and technology.
Ukraine cohort:
Nazar Drugov, Cambridge, MA, and MIT, and Ukraine, 17, to make Khanmigo fully functional in Ukrainian.
Aleksandra Peeva, Berlin, to study Russian sanctions.
Mariia Marinichenko, physics and math instruction in Ukrainian for Ukrainians.
Anastasiya Dobrobabenko, STEM education for a school near Kyiv.
Emergent Ventures, 37th cohort
Nicholas Kruus, 17, Highlands Ranch, CO, poverty alleviation, general career support.
Tobi Shevlane, Oxford, AI and prediction of real world events.
John Gross-Whitaker, Stanford, writing and thinking and career development.
Benjamin Manning, MIT, AI as a tool for doing economic research.
Arden Berg, Western Massachusetts, incoming student at the University of Chicago, philosophy and economics.
Sean Cai and associates, Cornell, using AI to improve the information content of musical notation.
Nicholas Decker, George Mason University, economics Ph.D student, to write his Substack and general career development.
Tim Mak, Kyiv, originally McGill, developing a periodical to cover business and defense developments in Ukraine.
Jack Wiseman, London, “A workspace for life sciences, hardware/robotics, and AI research in London for young scientists/technologists.”
Zeaus Koh, 17, Singapore, general career support, bio and AI.
Nathan J. Zhao, Stanford, general career support.
Naila Moloo, 18, Ottawa and Chapel Hill, turning duckweed into bioplastics.
Marina Lin, McLean, VA, high school, biological approaches to hard-NP problems, t cover possible publication costs.
Pablo Cobo Pérez, Córdoba, Spain, 16, programming and AI, to finance a trip to San Francisco.
Jon Hartley, Hoover and Stanford, gather data on how LLMs are used in workplaces.
Sean Keyes, Progress Ireland, to study Irish policy issues, and for travel and fact-finding missions.
Luke Marks, Australia, general career support and AI, to visit the Bay Area.
Janet Guo, MIT and New Zealand, longevity research.
Tejas Chakrapani, 16, Basking Ridge, NJ, general career support for efforts in tech.
Rohit Kulkarni, 17, Chantilly, VA, AI and biology.
Ricardo López Cordero, Mexico City, podcast on Mexican intellectual life.
Ekaterina Leksina, University of Warwick, mathematical biology.
Emergent Ventures 36th cohort
Unmol Sharma, Ontario, for work on purple sulfur bacteria to make hydrogen.
Andrew Gau, Stanford, robotics for the science lab.
James Edward Dillard, Atlanta area, AI and local reporting.
Jim Larsen, Farmington, New Mexico, energy, geothermal energy, and Indonesia,
Mohit Deepak Agarwal, Stanford, LLMs and ancient texts, through Perseus.
Rohit Krishnan, San Francisco, to run mid-career sabbatical program for interesting doers and thinkers.
Yuan Sui, Toronto/Harvard, to work at Harvard on neurosystems and the brain.
Kevin Zhu, Palo Alto, AI and child protection.
Muhammad Hunain, NYC, 18, space shields to protect satellies.
Vaishnav Sunil, NYC, writing and podcasting, including on talent.
Andrew Wu and Holden Mui, MIT, to compose and play the piano music of Holden.
Alan Chen, Austin, high schooler, robotics, AI, and assembly.
Ishir Rao, Chatham, NJ, high school, bio and AI and neurodegeneraton.
Adam Cheairs, Boston, high school, general career support, issues of sustainable development.
Nicholas Reville and Alex Jutca, San Francisco, RCTs to study the ability of GLP-1 drugs to alleviate addictions.
Here are previous winners of Emergent Ventures. Here is Nabeel’s software for querying about EV winners.
Emergent Ventures India, eighth cohort
Post and selection by Shruti Rajagopalan:
Lakshay Taneja is an innovator and entrepreneur with a background in blockchain and AI. He received an EV grant to develop his project aiming to harness ocean and tidal energy to generate electricity.
Madhulash K. Babu is a 24-year-old entrepreneur and electronics engineer and the founder of Edodwaja. He received his EV grant to develop flowbus/lab on wheels to bring the latest technology to schools allowing students to have hands-on STEM lab experiences.
Ryan Nadar is an engineering student and received his EV grant for his research on ion batteries.
Samay Sanghvi is a 17-year-old self-taught engineer from Mumbai. He received his EV grant to develop gliders to generate electricity from high altitude winds, at his start-up Alteon Energy which aims to generate 7.5Mw/h with just $12m (about 4.5x cheaper than solar in India).
Divyanshu Dembi is an antitrust lawyer and writes at Impatiently Curious. He received the EV grant for his podcast Jack of all knowledge with people doing interesting projects in the field of law, policy, arts and technology.
Sriram Kuchimanchi is a social entrepreneur and the founder of Smarter Dharma. He received an EV Grant to build India’s first data-driven open platform for sustainable materials and solutions which can help accelerate the decarbonising of the building industry from the design stage.
Junaid Ahmed is a 21-year-old entrepreneur and founder of WalkingPal – the world’s first walking buddy app – with a mission to change the way how people cover their last mile, by making walking more fun and the preferred way to commute.
Akshin Makkar is a 17-year-old from Toronto, Canada, building a drone-related application to help farmers with ground-weed problems in an agricultural setting.
Nikhil Garg is a 15-year-old high-school dropout working as a software engineer for the last four years. He received his EV grant to develop his startup bytecubetech. He is also working on Advisely, to help students who wish to study abroad.
Ayush Chauhan is a high-school student and young entrepreneur who was awarded an EV grant to expand multi-device charging station system to improve electricity access in underserved areas in rural India.
Moksh Soni is a 20-year-old innovator from Mandi, Himachal Pradesh. As a teenager, he made an electrolyzer by stripping a bus tire for rubber and cutting up some old steel plates from his mother’s kitchen. He received his EV India grant to design a relatively smaller electrolyzer, in a lab, and hopes to produce greater yields of hydrogen.
Amanjot Singh and Sehaj Pasricha are 19-year-old AI engineers. Badal Panchani, also 19, has worked as a developer and designer, and ran a natural science community. They received their EV grant to move to Bangalore and start Wayfarers Space, their start-up which aims to create a social environment for those on unconventional paths.
Indraneel S. Bankapure is a journalist and indologist from Kolhapur, Maharashtra. His organization Virasat: Indian Heritage Initiative hopes to introduce the wonders of Indian culture to the world. He received his EV grant to develop a machine learning tool which will help identify and recreate sculptures in their original glory.
Those unfamiliar with Emergent Ventures can learn more here and here. The EV India announcement is here. More about the winners of EV India second cohort, third cohort, fourth cohort, and fifth cohort. To apply for EV India, use the EV application, click the “Apply Now” button and select India from the “My Project Will Affect” drop-down menu.
If you are interested in supporting the India tranche of Emergent Ventures, please write to me or to Shruti at [email protected].
Emergent Ventures India, seventh cohort
Post and selection done by Shruti Rajagopalan, no further indentation:
Krishna Saproo is a BS-MS student at IISER Pune and founder of Maunitva Nirakaran. His research studies the impact of music on the cognitive behavioral system and explores the efficacy of Sangeetha Chikithsa, an ancient Indian therapeutic technique using music, in addressing mental health concerns.
Harshil Naik is a 22-year-old aerospace engineer who, along with his cofounder Kanao R., started Contineu, India’s first AI-enabled construction intelligence platform (using existing CCTV grids and drone feeds) to help drastically reduce decision-making times and material waste on sites due to inefficient communication loops.
Spencer Schneier is a startup founder based in Bangalore working on Commenda.io. He aims to make starting a business anywhere in the world as easy as deploying software. His project, Sling, is an incubator running out of his office and he received his EV grant to create additional workspace for deeptech and nontraditional founders based in (or looking to relocate to) Bangalore.
Rnjai Lamba is researching and developing a product that creates a noise-free environment around oneself. Previously, he led more than a hundred engineers and served as the CTO of a Series B Mexican FinTech.
Sriram Subramanian is a 35-year-old entrepreneur from Mumbai and one of the founders of Clever Harvey – a virtual internships platform to help high school students experience future career paths. His current EV-supported project borrows from highly effective gym training regimens to set up time-bound, cohort-based “incubation programs” with defined outcomes and built-in accountability checks.
Rabeea Raheed is an educator and STEM curriculum developer from Lahore and received her EV grant for general career development.
Vasav Trehan is a 14-year-old tech influencer and founder @technifyedofficial which bridges the tech education gap. He wants to democratize tech education and through his channel he is helping students up-skill by zero-price courses, zero-price certifications, internships and scholarship opportunities and interview preparation to be able to secure a better future. He received his grant to scale his platform technifyed.
Ravindra Guravannavar is a computer science researcher and a former faculty member of IIT Hyderabad and Dr. Shashikant Kulgod is a surgeon. They are the cofounders of Pratibha Poshak, a transformative talent search and nurture program aimed at identifying gifted students in the age group of 14-16. They received their EV grant for identifying students with high potential from remote, underserved rural areas and impoverished urban neighborhoods.
Akshita Sachdeva and Bonny Dave are the co-founders of Trestle Labs, an Assistive Technology company to make education and employment digitally inclusive for everyone against language, literacy and print-disability barriers like blindness, low-vision and dyslexia with their AI-powered patented technology solution, Kibo (Knowledge In A Box). They received their EV grant to help scale Kibo which helps Listen, Translate, Digitise and Audio’tize any kind of printed, handwritten and digital content across 60 global languages including 13 Indian languages.
Abhishek Sethi is the founder of one of India’s best early-stage incubators gradCapital which funds and incubates outlier students by providing them USD40k to scale their backyard science projects. gradCapital founders are also placed in cohorts in Bangalore to integrate them into the start-up ecosystem.
Sandeep Jaykumar is a 42-year-old electrical engineer, interested in complex adaptive systems. He received his EV grant to improve discoverability of information on the web using a market mechanism, and a more transparent ranking mechanism.
Manu Rewal is an award-winning Indo-French filmmaker. He received his EV grant to help write and produce a thriller featuring themes of rule of law and freedom. His films have been covered by the press here.
Bhagyashree Prabhutendolkar is a 19-year-old college student and author in Mumbai. She is the founder and director of Empower, a youth-led media outlet that exists to spark critical conversations among young people.
Karthik Palakodeti is a 17-year-old from Hyderabad who writes and runs a podcast on animal welfare for a blog he created with the aim to unpack the key policy questions in the field. He has also represented India at the World Schools Debating Championships for the past four years.
Those unfamiliar with Emergent Ventures can learn more here and here. The EV India announcement is here. More about the winners of EV India second cohort, third cohort, fourth cohort, and fifth cohort. To apply for EV India, use the EV application, click the “Apply Now” button and select India from the “My Project Will Affect” drop-down menu.
If you are interested in supporting the India tranche of Emergent Ventures, please write to me or to Shruti at [email protected].
Emergent Ventures India, sixth cohort, post and selection done by Shruti Rajagopalan
Akash Kulgod is a 23-year-old cognitive science graduate from UC Berkeley and chief canine comrade at Dognosis, where he is building tech that increases the bandwidth of human-canine communication. He received his EV grant for a pilot study in Northern Karnataka testing the performance of cyber-canines on multi-cancer screening from breath samples. He writes on his Substack.
A travel grant to the four-member team representing India in the 20th International Linguistics Olympiad in Bansko, Bulgaria below:
Faraz Ahmed Siddiqui is a 17-year-old high-school senior from Mumbai. He received his EV Grant to participate in the 20th International Linguistics Olympiad in Bansko, Bulgaria, where he won a silver medal. He now aims to popularize linguistics in India. He also enjoys studying and teaching Astronomy and Physics. His team (Anshul, Animikha and Diya) also received a travel grant to participate in the Olympiad.
Anshul Krishnadas Bhagwat is an 18-year-old polyglot, and language and linguistics enthusiast. He speaks over 9 languages fluently (English, Hindi, Konkani, Marathi, Kannada, Portuguese, Spanish, German, French) and is learning many more. He (and his team) received an EV grant to participate in the 20th International Linguistics Olympiad in Bulgaria, where he won an honorable mention.
Animikha Dutta Dhar is a 16-year-old from Kolkata, passionate about mathematics, linguistics and problem solving. She received her EV grant to participate in the 20th International Linguistics Olympiad in Bulgaria.
Diya Agrawal is an 18-year-old from Bangalore and is interested in biology, law and linguistics. She received an EV grant for applying to colleges in the US and to participate in the 20th International Linguistics Olympiad in Bulgaria.
Yakara Ganesh is a 24-year-old social entrepreneur and the founder of Samskar Electronics. He received his EV grant to develop the “Samskar Toy” an interactive device to educate young children about sexual abuse (a very big, and underreported problem in India).
Arpit Shukla is a 25-year-old social entrepreneur and researcher from Varanasi. He received his EV grant to develop and test his low-cost AI based bone conduction hearing aid for those with hearing loss and disability. The device is programmed to prevent the loss of voice data and has active noise cancellation.
Parth Verma is a 26-year-old mechanical engineer and the founder of Bakz4ever. He is working on Carbon Bank Technology, a 2-in-1 climate solution for low-cost Direct Air Carbon Capture with Long Duration Energy storage, to support and stabilize a 100% renewable grid.
Shivaganesh Gaddam is the founder of Zeni5, an innovative neobanking solution designed specifically for students, offering a convenient platform to manage their payments and benefits, introduce them to financial literacy, and reward them through digital gold cashbacks on every purchase.
Shweta Dalmia is a 26-year-old entrepreneur from Delhi, the Founder & CEO of Climapreneur. She received her EV grant to scale her podcast; through which she is bringing forward insights on the climate startup and nonprofit ecosystem and presenting opportunities for entrepreneurs.
Atul Singhal and his co-founder Sudhanshu Singh received their EV grant for scaling their startup Cuvette, which helps connect students from small towns in India looking for internships and jobs in the field of software development to employers. Currently, Cuvette is already being used by 400K+ users and they have around 6,000+ partner companies.
Anagha Rajesh is a 21-year-old chemistry major at BITS Goa and believes the future of computing will be driven by biomolecules. She received an EV grant to build a bacteria-driven DNA nanochip to enable next generation computing and storage. Prior to this, Anagha spent four years building and scaling Yours Mindfully, a mental health non-profit that impacted over 10,000 people.
Gautham Pasupuleti is the CEO and Managing Director of Biodesign Innovation Labs in Bangalore. He received his EV grant to further develop and scale RespirAID, a patented medical technology offering a safe, affordable, and reliable alternative to manual ventilation.
Shashank Aswathanarayana is a 34-year-old music technologist, percussionist and a postdoctoral research scholar at American University. He received an EV grant to travel across Southern India to build a complete acoustic image of Hindu temples.
Shankar Sri is a 22-year-old founder of Sputnik Brain (rebranded in the US as Neural Inception). He’s building a nonsurgical neural interface to democratize access to happiness through the brain’s serotonergic circuits to initially solve the issue of treatment-resistant depression, and eventually hopes to create a suffering-free human civilization.
Rahul Sagar is Global Network Associate Professor at NYU Abu Dhabi. He built Ideas of India, a new database that indexes every English-language periodical published in India from 1800-1950. Over 150 researchers have tracked down and indexed these lost publications, resulting in 300,000 entries from over 400 periodicals sourced from 175 libraries worldwide. Rahul’s EV grant will support a hunt “off the grid,” sending out teams to manually search in libraries that only have paper records of their holdings, in the hope of uncovering endangered archives.
Hardeep Gambhir is a 20-year-old from New Delhi/Toronto, interested in improving education and the future of humanity. He received his EV grant for general career development and to take a gap year from university to build his education/community initiative called The Residency, a home for the ambitious.
Those unfamiliar with Emergent Ventures can learn more here and here. The EV India announcement is here. More about the winners of EV India second cohort, third cohort, fourth cohort, and fifth cohort. To apply for EV India, use the EV application, click the “Apply Now” button and select India from the “My Project Will Affect” drop-down menu.
If you are interested in supporting the India tranche of Emergent Ventures, please write to me or to Shruti at [email protected].