Experience

Entrepreneur First

• United Kingdom
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Program Manager

  • Feb 2022 - Dec 2022

  Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Led the Program function at EF Bangalore. The Program team runs the cohort-based startup program and is responsible for delivering on investment targets for the local site. Have worked with over 300 founders over 3+ years.

• Venture Builder (EiR)

  • Jul 2019 - Feb 2022

  Bengaluru Area, India I advise and mentor founders while they explore and validate deep tech ideas. I work with founders closely and help them find the right co-founders, testing ideas, product-market-founder fit, go-to-market, and raising seed capital. My team's work with the founders guides EF's investment decisions. Some of the companies I have worked with directly include Immunito.ai (biotech), Beatoven.ai (Music generative AI), Subconcious Compute (AI in cybersecurity), Medpay (insure-tech), Brainentech… Show more I advise and mentor founders while they explore and validate deep tech ideas. I work with founders closely and help them find the right co-founders, testing ideas, product-market-founder fit, go-to-market, and raising seed capital. My team's work with the founders guides EF's investment decisions. Some of the companies I have worked with directly include Immunito.ai (biotech), Beatoven.ai (Music generative AI), Subconcious Compute (AI in cybersecurity), Medpay (insure-tech), Brainentech (neuroscience), and >15 others. EF is a pre-idea, pre-seed accelerator that brings together extraordinary people to build startups from scratch in London, Singapore, Berlin, Paris and Bangalore. EF has created 300+ companies which include Magic Pony Technology (acquired by Twitter), Represent (acquired by CustomInk), BloomsburyAI (acquired by Facebook), Tractable, Cleo, OpenCosmos, CloudNC, Transcelestial and many more. We are backed by Reid Hoffman, Greylock Partners, Founders Fund, Mosaic Ventures and Lakestar. www.joinef.com



Achira Labs Pvt. Ltd.

• India
• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head Of Technical Operations

  • Sep 2017 - Aug 2019

  Bengaluru Area, India Achira is a venture backed startup developing in-vitro diagnostics for a variety of point-of-care applications. Achira Labs has R&D expertise in microfluidics, surface chemistry and biochemistry as well as instrumentation. Reported to the CEO. My responsibilities at Achira were wide-ranging: 1. Headed Product Management of USelect - a proprietary microparticle-based system for pre-processing samples in fertility treatment such as IVF and IUI (https://www.achiralabs.com/uselect). Led… Show more Achira is a venture backed startup developing in-vitro diagnostics for a variety of point-of-care applications. Achira Labs has R&D expertise in microfluidics, surface chemistry and biochemistry as well as instrumentation. Reported to the CEO. My responsibilities at Achira were wide-ranging: 1. Headed Product Management of USelect - a proprietary microparticle-based system for pre-processing samples in fertility treatment such as IVF and IUI (https://www.achiralabs.com/uselect). Led product development and commercialization. Managed relationships with fertility specialists and hospitals. Organized field application activities such as training, roll-out, and implementation at external sites. Obtained regulatory approvals from CDSCO, Govt. of India 2. Headed all quality functions (QC,QA, Standards such as CE and ISO 13485). Set up an ISO 13485:2016 compliant Quality Management System across Achira. Achira is ISO certified for design, development & manufacture of in-vitro diagnostics. Led the team through the first external audit and certification 3. Led regulatory approval process for 7 point-of-care diagnostics panels. 5. Worked closely with the CEO on some of the business development activities Show less



Cerenode

• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder

  • Sep 2015 - Dec 2018

  Cerenode is a bioinformatics startup that helps life sciences companies accelerate their R&D by getting to insights faster. Cerenode uses proprietary graph technology to segment and analyze data. Cerenode's products cut through data siloes and identify patterns buried deep in the data using a stack that combines vocabularies, ontologies, semantic tools, and machine learning techniques. Our customers include biotech, pharma and healthcare companies.



Metaome Science Informatics Pvt Ltd

• India
• Biotechnology Research

• Product Manager

  • Feb 2013 - Aug 2015

  Bengaluru Area, India Metaome is a data management startup that helps life sciences companies organize and manage their data better. At Metaome, I’m responsible for product design, product roadmap, customer interactions, bioinformatic consulting and marketing activities. I am familiar with Semantic Web (Linked Data) technologies such as SPARQL, RDF and Ontology engineering tools such as TopBraid. I also work closely with the founders in fund raising activities for the company including developing the… Show more Metaome is a data management startup that helps life sciences companies organize and manage their data better. At Metaome, I’m responsible for product design, product roadmap, customer interactions, bioinformatic consulting and marketing activities. I am familiar with Semantic Web (Linked Data) technologies such as SPARQL, RDF and Ontology engineering tools such as TopBraid. I also work closely with the founders in fund raising activities for the company including developing the business plan, pitch slide-decks and pitching to Venture Capitalists/Angels. We were part of the Microsoft Accelerator program in 2014. Show less



Kaypeeyes Biotech Pvt. Ltd.

• Team Leader R&D

  • Jan 2012 - Jan 2013

  Mysuru Area, India Kaypeeyes is an SME biotech that produces enzymes and probiotics for veterinary applications http://kpsbio.com/ At Kaypeeyes, I was an early member of the R&D team and led the setup and operationalization of the new R&D center. The objective of the R&D center was to develop new enzyme products and also improve Kaypeeyes's fermentation technology. As part of the effort, I was involved in sourcing funds in the form of grants from the Govt of India, planning, budgets, and hiring. I also… Show more Kaypeeyes is an SME biotech that produces enzymes and probiotics for veterinary applications http://kpsbio.com/ At Kaypeeyes, I was an early member of the R&D team and led the setup and operationalization of the new R&D center. The objective of the R&D center was to develop new enzyme products and also improve Kaypeeyes's fermentation technology. As part of the effort, I was involved in sourcing funds in the form of grants from the Govt of India, planning, budgets, and hiring. I also contributed to field testing and market validation of 2 new enzyme formulations. Show less



SignalFire Biosensor

• Co-Founder

  • Jun 2009 - Dec 2011

  United Kingdom I co-founded SignalFire along with Dr. Arsalan Daudi to develop and commercialise a novel biosensor technology that can detect small molecules of interest and localise them within a cell. SignalFire was initially funded by a grant won from Royal Holloway Enterprise. The project achieved several prototypes and established proof-of-concept.



Royal Holloway, University of London

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• PhD candidate

  • Jan 2008 - Sep 2011

  Egham, United Kingdom My thesis investigated the effects of large compendia of transcriptomics datasets on gene functional analyses. I developed a computational method to identify biological relevant and optimal datasets from large data collections. I also participated in 3 other inter-disciplinary research projects including the development of a node ranking method for integrated biological networks, computational prediction of protein function using graph-theoretic methods and transcriptomics data analyses of… Show more My thesis investigated the effects of large compendia of transcriptomics datasets on gene functional analyses. I developed a computational method to identify biological relevant and optimal datasets from large data collections. I also participated in 3 other inter-disciplinary research projects including the development of a node ranking method for integrated biological networks, computational prediction of protein function using graph-theoretic methods and transcriptomics data analyses of wounding response in Arabidopsis.

• Research Associate

  • Sep 2006 - Dec 2007

  Egham, United Kingdom Arabidopsis thaliana microarray analyses and Comparative Genomics in the group of Prof. Dr. Laszlo Bögre.