About · Founder
An inventor, quietly building
industrial futures.
Born in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. The work began in a borrowed workshop at fourteen — and has not really paused since.
Inventor, deep-tech founder, and six-time Indian Presidential awardee.
Portrait · Bhubaneswar, India
Industrial systems builder.
Deep-tech founder.
Materials strategist.
Building from India for the world.
Fifteen years inside the workshop have taught one lesson without exception: frontier science only matters when it reaches the industrial world. The brief is not a paper, not a prototype, not even a product — it is the discipline of carrying invention through capital, through manufacturing, and through the long quiet years before scale.
The philosophy is simple. Engineer matter. Engineer capital. Engineer scale. Hold all three in one hand long enough for the work to outlive the inventor.
The direction is narrower still — graphene and advanced materials, patient industrial capital, and a vertically integrated stack designed to make Indian deep-tech globally inevitable in the carbon century ahead.
01 · Origin
A workshop, a wheelchair, and a question.
At fourteen, in a workshop borrowed for a weekend, I built a breath-powered wheelchair for a man with locked-in syndrome who could no longer ask for water. That afternoon rewrote what engineering meant to me: not optimisation, but agency. Performance is the means. Agency is the brief.
Every venture since has begun with the same question — who is this for, and what does dignity look like for them at scale?
02 · Academia
IISER Bhopal · OCT Bhopal.
BSc. from IISER Bhopal, admitted under the KVPY-SP scholarship — the foundation in chemistry, physics, and the discipline of asking questions matter cannot easily answer.
BEd. in ETE from OCT, Bhopal, under the Special Achiever category — a quiet conviction that an inventor who cannot teach has not really finished the invention.
Engineer matter.
Engineer capital.
Engineer scale.
Frontier science only matters when it reaches the industrial world. That requires three disciplines held together: invention, capital architecture, and operating systems. I have spent the last fifteen years learning to hold all three in one hand.
Recognition is a lagging indicator. The real measure is whether the next prototype shipped, whether the next venture is solvent, and whether the work eventually outlives the inventor.
04 · Dossier
27
Honors of record · National + International
50+
Featured by news & media outlets
2
Academic degrees · IISER & OCT, Bhopal
TED
Global platform · among the youngest at the time
05 · Mission
Built in India. Designed for the world.
India has the talent, the demand, and the urgency to lead the carbon century. What remains is patience — the institutional patience to translate Indian invention into global industrial deployment.
My ventures, taken together, are one answer to that question: a vertically integrated stack from atom-scale research to capital and commercialization, designed to make Indian deep-tech globally inevitable.
06 · Evolution
From inventor to ecosystem.
The first decade was about inventions — ten-plus working prototypes shipped from a borrowed workshop. The second is about systems — companies, capital, and the talent that compounds across them. The third, I suspect, will be about handing the work to the next generation of Indian builders who never had to ask permission.
The work continues.