Co-founder of Neurostellar — a mental-fitness tech startup at IIT Madras, India & US. Student of health, languages, and living fully.
What drove me was never business — it was freedom. The freedom to decide how you spend your time, what you build, and who you become. Growing up around a family business gave me an early, unfiltered view of what entrepreneurship actually feels like — the risks, the resilience, the relentless problem-solving. But the hunger to build something of my own came from something deeper: the belief that being your own boss is the most honest path to living on your own terms.
That hunger led me to co-found Neurostellar — a mental-fitness tech startup incubated at IIT Madras, now in Bengaluru and the US. We build brain-computer interface tools to make mental fitness as aspirational as physical fitness.
Along the way I discovered that peak performance begins in the body. Yoga, Ayurveda, running, surfing — what started as survival became practice. Now it's a community: Nowness Labs.
Each stage shaped the next.
A B.Tech in Biotechnology at SASTRA confirmed the lab wasn't my arena — the stage was. Running college festivals, securing first sponsorships, managing teams. Discovered that building and connecting was my real skill.
From Nestlé to ByteAlly — scaling across India, Bangladesh, and the US. Co-founded NeurTechX India, an international neurotechnology community. Every role sharpened my instinct for GTM, ops, and staying resourceful under pressure.
IIT Madras incubation. Supply chain, hiring, grants — all from scratch. Launched Orbit, a smart EEG headband for real-time cognitive tracking, deployed with the Indian Air Force, Olympic athletes, and peak performers.
G20. GITEX Dubai. BW Festival of HealthTech. BSE India. Bay Area. The mission went global. BW 30U30. YourStory Tech50. Times of India. The CapTable.
MVP launched at CES Las Vegas. Sports MoU with chess grandmaster Vishnu Prasanna. And the most important lesson: peak performance starts with a regulated nervous system. Running, Ayurveda, and Nowness Labs became the answer.
On mental fitness, building, and what it means to live fully. View all on Substack →
Field notes, not prescriptions. How Ayurveda, movement, and Kundalini meditation helped me reverse what medication couldn't — and what it taught me about listening to your body.
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Three years of building Neurostellar taught me that performance starts in the body. Here is what running, yoga, and learning to be a beginner again did for my nervous system — and my leadership.
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We celebrate physique transformations but ignore the brain. Here is the case — and the neuroscience — for making mental fitness as aspirational, measurable, and celebrated as physical fitness.
View all perspectives →Whether you're an investor curious about the future of mental fitness, a founder who needs a thinking partner, or an organisation looking for a speaker who brings neuroscience and lived experience — I'd love to hear from you.