Brief bio

ImpactVerse

Founder & CEO, Impact-Verse.com — June 2021 to present. The world's first tech platform / advisory helping founders unlock catalytic outcomes philanthropy, and helping NGOs and social enterprises access outcome-based capital.

Raised US$3.5M+ in catalytic philanthropy for clients in India, working across AI, gender, climate resilience and education, with strategic donors in India, the UK and the US.

Work experience

• Founder & CEO, Impact-Verse.com June 2021 – present · see ImpactVerse above
• Venture capital (CDFDT SEA) team, International Finance Corporation, World Bank May 2020 – Oct 2020 · DD of 7 tech startups and 1 leading VC fund, India VC Funds mapping, 5 market landscapes and much more!
• Analytics and Insights intern (PPO holder), Procter and Gamble Dec 2016 – Jan 2017 · Developed a multi-stakeholder dashboard for P&G India's modern retail business
• Team member > President > Trustee > Mentor and advisor, Enactus IIT Delhi Trust 2013 – present · Led a team of 7 social entrepreneurship projects with the most inspiring and amazing friends — Aanch (set up rural women-owned micro-enterprises to develop and sell smokeless stoves), FFL (created sustainable livelihoods for Burmese refugees), Titli (set up a manufacturing hub for low-cost sanitary pads), Nirmalya (developed a local waste collection network and an IoT waste composter product for quality manure production), and a few more!
• Co-founder, Excelsior India (non-profit) 2014 – 15 · Developed and scaled "Amaze" with very inspiring friends — a school bag cum study table made out of used cardboard for government schools with no furniture.

Education

• Summer school in Economic Networks, Oxford2021
• MBA in Finance, FMS Delhi2019 – 2021
• B.Tech in Engineering Physics, IIT Delhi2013 – 17

Other selected experiences

• Fellow at Center for Innovative Finance and Social Impact, ISDM
• Blitzscaling Fellow 2023Always on a lookout for Blitzscaling companies in India for investment by Blitzscaling Ventures
• ELD Fellow 2023 by Meraki LabsFellowship curated by Mukesh Bansal
• TAVtech Fellowship by TAVtech Israel and NYU Stern School of Business2020
• Jagriti Yatra Fellow 2021JY is Asia's largest gathering of development sector professionals and social entrepreneurs
• Inclusive Innovation Summer School by SRISTI and UNICEF2017
• Design Innovation FellowA fellowship awarded by IIT Delhi and Ministry of Human Resource Development, 2017
• SRISTI-UNICEF Inclusive Innovation Summer School, National Innovation Foundation2017

Few selected achievements

• National Winner, in top 24 globally of 3000, IT Business Case Challenge by Procter & Gamble2016
• National Winner, Enactus/HSBC Business Case Competition2015 · team achievement
• National Winner, Abhyuday Social Plan Competition, IIT Bombay2015 · team achievement
• National Winner & 2x 1st Runner-up, Enactus National Competition2014 – 17 · team achievement
• 1st Runner-up, Eureka — Asia's Largest B-Plan Competition2014 · team achievement
• Top 25 Social Innovator Award and recognition, The Red Bricks Summit, IIMA2017
• Future CEO Leader Award, Work-Ready Award, Talerang2020
• Design Innovation Student Award, by IIT Delhi & Ministry of Human Resource2015
• IIT Delhi Pearl Award2015

Other selected interests

Complexity science, system dynamics, non-linear systems, philosophy, psychology, economics, financial theory.