Not a prodigy. Not a dropout. A son who watched his father build, fail, and build again — and decided that hunger was the only inheritance worth keeping.
My father was an entrepreneur — and my hero. Growing up, I watched him build businesses, face failures, and start over without blinking. When I asked him what he did for a living, he said he was building a startup. That was the first time I ever heard the word.
Every night when he came home, I had a new problem-solution idea waiting for him. He'd listen carefully, and then smile and say — "Beta, this is exactly what an investor pitch looks like." He was training me without me even knowing it. That hunger he had — to build, to solve, to never stop — I feel it in me every single day.
In 2021, I lost my father to COVID. My mother held everything together through that time — carrying the weight of our family with a strength I still struggle to put into words. And I was just trying to find my footing again.
Then I found his DSLR — the one he bought in 2016 and never got time to use. I picked it up, walked out the door, and started shooting the streets of Delhi. It was the first thing that made me feel alive again. I founded a photography club in college, built a side hustle around it, and for a while, I was sure that was my path.
But somewhere after graduation, I realized photography wasn't the destination — it was the recovery. My father hadn't raised me to just capture the world. He raised me to build in it.
I prepared for CAT with everything I had — a promise I'd made to my father that even if engineering college wasn't tier-1, MBA would be. I studied harder than I ever had in my life. I fell short of the top colleges, but the process forged something in me that no MBA could have.
I joined Enerjazz (YC S21) as their fifth hire. With a team of five, there were no departments — just problems that needed solving. I did HR, sales, finance, and marketing simultaneously. It was chaotic and clarifying. It's also where I met Pratik Ranjan Das, whose recommendation later opened the door to Delhi Angels.
At Delhi Angels, working alongside Mr. Kunwer Sachdev and Shivam Ahuja, I finally found the intersection I was always meant to operate in — where deals get sourced, founders get backed, and ecosystems get built. This is my arena.
"I've seen the startup ecosystem since childhood — not from a conference stage, but from the dinner table. That's the only edge that can't be taught."
— On why this work feels personalI used to think I was shy. Not a public speaker. Not the kind of person who walks into a room and commands it. But the right environment changes you. At Delhi Angels, with the right mentors and the right challenges, I've learned that growth isn't about becoming someone else — it's about becoming more of yourself, faster.
I'm a quick learner, never tired of work, and always questioning. I read obsessively — books, research, case studies on the Indian startup ecosystem. I build AI automations on the side because if a task is repeatable, I'd rather spend that time thinking about the next thing.
I've seen the Indian startup ecosystem since childhood — not from a conference stage, but from the dinner table. That connection is real, and it's what drives everything I do.