Two worlds.
One person.
My dad is an entrepreneur and tech CEO. My mom is a leadership and NLP coach. I grew up at that intersection — the builder and the understander, the system and the person inside it. I didn't choose to be an ampersand. It was what was modeled at the dinner table every night.
At UCLA, I built Bruin Finance Society from scratch because every finance club took 10 people from 1,000 applicants and called it meritocracy. I disagreed. Two thousand members later, hundreds of students have gotten their first finance role through something that didn't exist before we made it.
In India, I'm on the founding team of Kolam Studio — a venture studio backing early-stage founders in Bharat. Kolam is a traditional Indian art form: geometric patterns drawn from dots, connecting them with flowing lines. It's the most honest metaphor I've found for what I actually do.
It started earlier than UCLA. In high school in Delhi, I built Farm+ — an Arduino-based smart irrigation device to reduce water waste — and founded Sampatti, a financial literacy gazette, because neither thing existed and both felt necessary. The pattern was already there.
I've evaluated 50+ AI startups as a VC analyst, shipped an AI product as VP of Product at Native Labs, and consulted for businesses ranging from LA nonprofits to UC campuses. The through-line is always the same: find the interesting problem at the intersection, then go deep.