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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].
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