✦ Creating Commerce centric intelligenceHouse of Models is an AI Operating System for e-commerce. It uses AI agents to create personalized storefronts, aiming to double engagement, conversions, and retention. The system addresses generic, inflexible e-commerce media & code for commerce by leveraging a unique MOE model. It's built on a agent architecture, with each AI agent as a separate service orchestrated centrally.✦ Why create many agents for eCommerceThe platform employs agents, actions, and transfer learning. The architecture of the house has five layers: co-kernel, action model, agents, mixture of experts model, and OS layer. This way, brands get the precision they want, with the control they seek and the safety their users desire.✦ 10+ brands across the world already using itOver 10 global brands use House of Models. Some brands report increased engagement, higher conversion rates, and efficient content generation.✦ Goal: to get to steerable MOE models for e-commerceThe goal is developing steerable Mixture of Experts models for e-commerce. This would allow greater personalization, dynamic adjustments to user preferences, and market trends. It involves ongoing research in transfer learning, multi-task learning, and adaptive AI systems.✦ Creating a world of personal AI Shoppers for youKey features include personalized recommendations, dynamic pricing, inventory management, automated content generation, intelligent search, fraud detection, sentiment analysis, and omnichannel fulfillment. The roadmap includes developing role-specific AI agents and creating an open development surface for third-party contributions.

✦ What is Sentient Sentient is an AGI research company. We build AI systems that learn, reason, and adapt to different tasks and environments. Our goal: create AI that mimics human cognition, allowing it to tackle complex problems without needing to be told exactly how.Key Areas of AI Research ✦ Building Reasoners Reasoners are AI systems that make decisions and solve problems based on logic and data. They learn and improve over time, adapting to new tasks and challenges.✦ Building Models Models recognize patterns, make predictions, and perform tasks. The better the data, the smarter the model becomes. Models form the backbone of AI’s power and versatility.✦ Making Models Monetizable For AI to generate value, it needs to solve real-world problems. Sentient’s monetizable models offer practical, scalable solutions for businesses and users.

Seed-stage investments, managed partly by AI agents and partly by potatoes.Our goal? To make tech fun by funding fun tech.

Nume is a gas-free, scalable and secure web3 payments protocol with primitives tailored for commerce.

Polygon Labs is the development and growth team for the decentralized Polygon protocol.As SVP of the Developer Studio, I am responsible for increasing the footprint of Polygon across the development, builder and Web3 community. Our mission is to increase the impact radius of the blockchain for developers, and the benefits of the blockchain, for users. As a company, Polygon is dedicated to the idea that technology should enable digital ownership, data privacy, and self-sovereignty. Our mission is to develop technology that empowers individuals and organizations to break free and thrive in a digital world where privacy and data ownership are paramount.The Developer Studio comprises of teams such as:✦ Developer Relations: responsible for building relationships with developers who use the Polygon's protocols and features. They work to create a community around the Polygon's offerings, providing support, resources, and feedback channels to developers.✦ Product Experiences: responsible for creating and managing the user interface and user experience of the Polygon's public infrastructure services. They work closely with developers and designers to ensure that the user experience is seamless, intuitive, and engaging to board millions to Web3.✦ Ecosystem partners: ensure that the Polygon's products and services are composable with other protocols and technologies, and they explore new partnership opportunities to expand the blockchain's reach.✦ Mobility: responsible for developing and maintaining the company's mobile thesis and strategy. The team looks to ensure that the company's mobile offerings are along the open community ethos of Ethereum, and to the goal of inclusion as well. ✦ New Strategic Initiatives: work closely with leadership to identify emerging areas for the protocol to foster innovation intoPolygon is a platform that serves creators, fans, game designers, players, developers, entrepreneurs, and businesses with big ideas.

As an advisor for Layer E, I provide product guidance and expertise to help the team build the experience layer for Ethereum and develop the next generation of CRM - A Collectible Relationship Management platformMy primary responsibility is to provide strategic advice on blockchain & SaaS Product work and its application to collectibles and customer engagement. I work closely with the team to identify new opportunities and ensure that our products are built to the highest technical standards.As an advisor, I also evaluate new Web3 technologies and identifying opportunities for innovation. Some of this includes:✦ Creating a new era of customer loyalty through blockchain-powered collectiblesLeading the team to develop cutting-edge technology for unique, personalized experiences for customers|✦ Working with industry experts in blockchain, customer engagement, and entrepreneurship to deliver best-in-class solutions for brand enabled Collectibles✦ Providing insight and guidance to build the commerce driven applications for the brand specific CRM and Collectible Relationship Management featureset Layer-E has secured venture capital from some of the most reputable investors in the Web3 space and continues to build out the vision of humanizing tokens through culture.

Firedrops by Flipkart was a next-generation Web 3.0 platform that aimed to reimagine the online shopping experience. ✦ Firedrops collaborated with Nothing, a smartphone company, to introduce NFTs as a category first experience of it's kind to reward early buyers.✦ Firedrops later teamed up with Polygon-incubated eDAO to host a “digital treasure hunt” in preparation for Flipkart’s Big Billion Days Sale. As users progressed through the treasure hunt, they were rewarded with virtual assets and limited-time collectibles. ✦ A month after the digital treasure hunt, Flipkart launched Flipverse, a metaverse shopping experience for shoppers that was hosted on Firedrops. Flipverse was a gamified version of online shopping that allowed users to immerse themselves in a virtual world. The shopping event was live for one week for Android users and saw participation from brands such as Puma, Nivea, Noise, and Himalaya, with over 100 products listed. During the six-day event, nearly 500 users were streaming Flipverse every minute.✦ Flipkart Labs was responsible for incubating Firedrops with a dedicated focus on Web 3.0. The division was part of the Product Strategy & Deployment (PSD) arm and tested Web 3.0 use cases in India. ✦ In addition to in-house efforts by Flipkart Labs to strategically build solutions for entering the next generation of the web, the eCommerce giant partnered with global blockchain leaders Polygon to establish a Center of Excellence (CoE) in India. This partnership undertook research and development of Web 3.0 and metaverse commerce cases in India.By incubating Firedrops, Flipkart was pushing its community to recognize the potential of Web 3.0 and become familiar with Digital Collectibles as a piece of brand technology. From here, the entrepreneurial team at Firedrops are focused on innovative ways to enable user engagement, incentive, retention and loyalty to become core to the Firedrops proposition.

Work Experience: Flipkart Labs (Innovation Arm of Flipkart Group)Flipkart Labs is an in-house innovation capability of Flipkart, created to redefine e-commerce and enhance the shopping experience for millions of customers. As the Head of Product and Innovation Architecture, I was responsible for creating the foundational bets taken by Flipkart. Notably, these include: ✦ Deployed the worlds largest concurrent Metaverse experience with Flipverse, which witnessed over 750,000 attendees using the experience across 100 countries.✦ Leveraged emerging technologies across Health, EVs, open commerce protocols and incubated cutting-edge ideas to deliver breakthrough solutions to the e-commerce ecosystem.✦ Enabled Flipkart and its group companies to test exciting new Web3 and Metaverse use-cases with real-world applications, including NFT-related use-cases, Virtual Immersive Storefronts, Play to Earn, and other Blockchain related use-cases.✦ Deployed multiple 3D and Augmented Reality-based immersive shopping experiences through Flipkart Camera, which was formed after the acquisition of AR/VR startup Scapic 2020.The aim of Flipkart Labs was to strengthen the company's in-house innovation capabilities by carving out a dedicated, entrepreneurial team. Humanizing future technologies and establishing ways to transform the way India shops by creating breakthrough solutions, we're the guiding principles for the Labs team. The strike team served as a vehicle for talent building technology solutions in this space and collaborated with brands, merchants, startups, and technologists to set the standard for accelerating commerce with future facing technologies.

Flipkart Camera the worlds largest AR-enabled, immersive shopping experience accessible to Flipkart's 400+ million customers, aimed at bringing customers to immersive shopping experiences.With the market for mixed-reality tech projected to reach nearly $300 million by 2024, AR in marketing campaigns is rapidly gaining favor among brands globally, and nine out of ten brands are already using or planning to use AR.Flipkart Camera was launched on the Flipkart app in 2021. The platform allows customers to experience a product as if it were the real thing, from the comfort of their homes, through features like "view in your space" that shows a true-to-scale replica of the article in the customer's living room.Flipkart acquired Scapic, the startup behind the AR publishing platform that powers Flipkart Camera, in November 2020 to extend the platform's capabilities across a wide range of use cases and make the technology accessible to the everyday customer. Further, Flipkart camera struck deep strategic partnerships with Snap & L'Oréal to bring pioneering AR technologies to India. Several thousand products in Flipkart's catalog can be experienced by users on an AR-capable phone, and the platform plans to expand coverage soon, including a good percentage of the top sellers in Furniture and Refrigerators that are already AR-enabled.AR users have grown to 3.5 billion in 2022, and AR powered by mobile phones seems almost inevitable, given the growing push towards an immersive user experience and ever-increasing smartphone penetration.Flipkart Camera envisions a future where AR is a routine component of the shopping experience, and a natural step in the browsing and online shopping process, driven by the intuitiveness of Flipkart Camera.

At Dehidden, the team believed that NFTs have endless possibilities and that the current NFT landscape is fragmented, leaving huge untapped potential. People were still treating NFTs purely as digital art, when they have so many utilities, functions, and purposes that we're yet to fully utilize.This lead to me backing Dehidden for the vision of revolutionizing NFTs and Digital Collectibles. Some reasons why:✦ The team's goal was to build an NFT experience tool that brings the complete NFT experience under one umbrella. The goal is to show the world the potential of NFTs, one utility based module at a time.✦ The team had worked with blue chip logos like Adidas, NFT NYC, Coinbase and more. With 15 projects, including the Adidas-Prada NFT launch, they catalyzed the ecosystem into thinking of utility defined NFTs. ✦ The Dehidden platform was your one-stop-shop for all things NFTs. With a simple click-and-configure no-code visual platform, creators can easily add any utilities they want to their NFT collections using our Dehidden apps. ✦ The aim was for making the NFT experience efficient and effortless, just like Canva, but for NFTs. All your NFT needs in one place - design, contracts, utilities, all at your fingertips.The team made consistent progress across products, customers and revenues. Eventually, they were acquired by a larger entity in the Digital Collectibles Infrastructure space.

Scapic was the world's first and most widely used Mixed Reality No-Code platform. Scapic pioneered the category of Metaverse authoring engines that let you create, share and explore immersive worlds, without having to write code. Scapic become the most adopted platform for builders, with over 550,000 mixed reality experiences across 30+ categories, making it the go-to tool for no-code builders to easily adopt VR and AR solutions.Milestones: ✦ Benchmark: Scapic became the industry leading solution, and received widespread recognition, with over 50 awards including the National Startup Award of 2020, Facebook Tech Awards, YourStory Tech30, and the Nasscom Emerge 50 awards.✦ Deep Tech SaaS: Scapic showed that it was possible to build SaaS businesses in deep tech. Successfully built a next-generation augmented reality platform, specifically designed to make eCommerce an immersive purchase experience. ✦ Built a platform entirely in India, with the aim to create a global opportunity in eCommerce. Scaled to a team of 60+ passionate young membersAcquisition:Scapic was acquired by the Flipkart Group in 2021. The acquisition was aimed at building foundational use cases for Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, 3D product generation, virtual stores, and other possibilities in the Metaverse. The acquisition was seen as a significant step towards the future of commerce through the camera and marked one of the first deep-tech acquisitions in the Metaverse space.

Supertext was a Conversational AI assistant company that aimed to make commerce services conversational by allowing brands and businesses to engage in intelligent and intuitive text messages with their customers. Our mission was to help individuals spend more time doing what they love by reducing the friction in their daily lives, all over social messaging platforms.Supertext recognized that many people preferred ordering through delivery apps rather than dealing with services directly, and we decided to create a solution. Our chat-based service is built on WhatsApp, so you can access it with just a tap of a button without having to download another app. From food to grocery, medicine to pet supplies, we deliver everything from your local stores to your doorstep.The company's motto is "Be Lazy," and it reflects our belief that people should spend less time running errands and more time doing the things they enjoy. We developed Supertext as a platform that would serve as a single communication channel for ordering, discovery, availing services, and customer support. We chose a chat-based interface because it is convenient, easy to use, and allows customers to multitask, share images and location.Supertext started as a mellow beta experiment, but our service quickly took off, and within six months, we had over 80,000 unique users in Bangalore alone. We learnt a lot about user experience and unit economics while burning some money and making some noise.

Aeriem was an ed-tech startup that aimed to digitize the Indian classroom. The product was built with a focus on adaptive learning algorithms and data-driven personalization, allowing the end user to fulfill requirements of the curriculum while building on and diving deeper into propensities. The startup worked with several educational institutions across Bangalore city, helping bring technology into the classroom.Aeriem was founded in 2012, when the ed-tech sector was far from the spotlight it currently has. Almost all of the activity around the education space was not digital, and the classroom was the only meaningful source of teacher-student interaction, and thus, learning.In its early stages, Aeriem faced several challenges related to the Indian education system. The education sector of India is divided into two main segments; the core segment comprises of schools and higher education, while the non-core comprises of coaching classes, pre-schools, and trainings. The competitive exams define high-school and the drive to excel creates a fast-paced scenario where every mark counts and every method helps. With lakhs of students appearing across the country for exams such, it is imperative that their training organization equip them with the best possible facilities in those crucial learning stages for them to hold the edge and ace their exams. Despite the challenges, Aeriem managed to carve a niche for itself in the ed-tech sector. The startup was early to the market, missed the timing by a few years and learnt a lot through the process in terms of going in search of product-market fit. The team remained bullish on the possibilities of building algorithmic curation services for education and believed there was value at scale, in the billions. Aeriem was one attempt at possibly unlocking that value, one tablet at a time.

During my tenure at Project AceTab, I contributed to the development of the AceTab, a student-targeted Tablet PC with educational content and integrated Learning Management Systems (LMS). My responsibilities included spearheading the specification, design, and iteration of both the hardware and software stack. The AceTab was successfully deployed to students across the state of Karnataka, enabling them to access digital learning resources and engage with interactive educational content.I also played a key role in creating an efficient content generation and archiving process for lecture videos, as well as incorporating supplementary learning material from the internet. This initiative effectively centralized learning materials and streamlined access for students.Furthermore, I successfully integrated digital weekly tests using AceTab across a test campus, deploying a dashboard to push tests to students and setting up wireless infrastructure to facilitate the tests. This effort resulted in improved test-taking experiences for students and streamlined the test administration process for the institution.Project AceTab were instrumental in driving the company's mission to enhance education through innovative technology solutions.

As a part of Intel's Quark team, I had the privilege to work closely with the engineering and sales divisions across diverse industries. My role involved navigating a complex partner and customer ecosystem to shape product roadmaps, drive value for customers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to harness emerging technology trends for delivering comprehensive solutions.During my tenure at Intel, I have been actively involved in delivering cutting-edge low power Quark chip proposals and solutions that align with customers' requirements and drive growth. My work has been centered around fostering strong relationships with partners and customers, understanding their needs, and delivering customized solutions that meet their expectations.Being part of a leading technology company has provided me with a unique opportunity to work with talented individuals from diverse backgrounds, bringing together a wealth of knowledge and expertise. This experience has allowed me to grow professionally and enhance my skills in navigating complex business environments, developing impactful partnerships, and driving business growth.Intel helped me learn at an accelerated pace and learn from to a company that is was innovating and pushing the boundaries of what is possible.