New ventures. Old questions. A quiet obsession with how people live.
Godrej Enterprises — New Ventures + Investments
Back inside a conglomerate, at a different altitude. Group-level work: evaluating new businesses, incubating ventures, forging partnerships. Current focus — sustainability, lifestyle, and a music and cultural ecosystem play (under wraps).
Same company, different altitude.
A portfolio of pro-bono work
Built a full India investment thesis for a VC fund — five emerging shifts, a hypothetical $100M portfolio. Token design for Nakamoto Hub, a Bitcoin-secured settlement platform for financial institutions. Product strategy for Delabel, digital twins for luxury.
And Mandala — a blockchain platform for tokenising e-waste lifecycle data. Explored, not pursued. The gestation before anything tangible felt too long and too taxing for the season I was in.
Some bets are right. Some are early. Some are right but not for right now.
Lomads
Community infrastructure for artists and creators. Started Web2, pivoted to Web3 in January 2022 as the wave hit. Moved to Paris. Raised through Terra-Luna and FTX collapses. Onboarded 60+ orgs in six months. Handed over to Blockstart Investments in 2023.
Plug into high-signal people. Scope and ship. Sell the vision. Walk the line between it and market reality. That's the whole game.
Godrej Appliances — Innovation from scratch
Head of Innovation. Set up the function, hired the team, built the methods. Four connected kitchen products — voice control, companion app — in 18 months. $80M+ in projected revenue. $6M secured. Four patents filed. Also ran the group-level IoT platform — Wipro, TechM, Capgemini in the room.
Institutions can innovate. They just need someone willing to fight for it internally.
Claro Partners — Barcelona
Reframed P&G's mass fragrance market — from demographics to emotions. Mapped Intel's role in the emerging IoT landscape, plus an open-source template for building IoT products people actually want. Framed the proposal that won Claro's largest project to date — Fiat Chrysler's connected car future.
Opportunities are always earlier and stranger than people expect.
Three places, three things that still run underneath everything
Maruti Suzuki — Delhi
First job. Graduate Engineer Trainee, then Assistant Manager in R&D. The Japanese shop-floor discipline landed early — managers on the floor, egalitarian teams, 5S as a working philosophy: sort, set in order, shine, standardize, sustain. Watched how a large company's functions actually sync. That clarity around operational detail has never left.
Thales — Paris
Strategic Designer at their fledgling Design Centre, secured via cold email. My boss Didier spent hours walking me through design thinking and the real mechanics of changing a 70,000-person company. Shadowed meetings, ran workshops, helped build the space — IDEO and Stanford d.school as the reference points. First real schooling in translating between innovation and scale.
Board of Innovation — Antwerp
Internship. Given a free hand to analyse new venture possibilities for Sappi — the global woodfibre giant looking to diversify using their existing assets. Framed the opportunities, presented to Sappi management. Watched BoI run venture-building for other clients at the same time. A masterclass in opportunity identification before I knew the phrase.
Operational discipline from Japan. Design methods from France. Venture thinking from Belgium. The stack I still run on.
- Anoushka Shankar, live
- Prabha Atre — thumris on quiet mornings
- Rabindra Sangeet, the way Calcutta plays it
- Rokia Traoré
- Sufjan Stevens
- Diljit, at scale
- AURORA
- Vedic chants at dawn
I grew up in a small town, went to a Ramakrishna Mission boarding school, and learned early that the world was mine to figure out.
Engineering at Delhi College of Engineering, then strategic design at TU Delft. Delft cracked me open.
I've built innovation studios inside conglomerates and a Web3 startup from a Paris apartment. Raised through crypto winters. Shipped products people actually use. Walked away when the chapter was done.
Lived in Delft, The Hague, Antwerp, Barcelona, Paris. Back in Mumbai now — with Subhasree and our two kids.
I'm drawn to how people live. The next thing I build will probably sit at the edge of culture, capital, and emerging tech.