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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].
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