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About
16 year old. Founder of Spark. Investor at Localhost
Work Experience
• Co-founded a $50,000 startup fund focused on investing in early-stage startups along with Kei Hayashi
• Created a nonprofit community of 400+ indie hackers to learn, network, and grow.
• Hosted Spark July, and August Hackathon along with Bubble India Summit in Bangalore with over 500+ participants around the globe both physically and virtually
• Received $20,000+ in sponsorship from KG Ventures, Bubble, Getdevkit, Yep, ActualOneProtocol, Bubble India Summit, etc
• Launched on Producthunt with 190+ Upvotes and No. 10 - Day rank.
• Started Artha-Samvaad Podcast in Jan 2022 to host Top Entrepreneurs and Investors across the world and learn about their journey and experiences .
• Hosted more than 30+ Guests and crossed more than 8K Subscribers on YT Channel and 75K+ Views.
• Prominent Guests - Ishmohit Arora ( Co-founder SOIC - 280K+ Subs ) , Pratyush Mittal ( Co-founder Screener.in 2 Million+ Users ) , Mihir Patki ( Co-founder Multipie.co Acquired by ICICI Direct ) , Ashris Choudhury ( Founder of India In Pixels 410K+ Subs ) etc .
• Started Newsletter for every financial market investor
• Published more than 35+ Blogs covering analysis of Markets/Companies
• Crossed more than 3000+ Mailing List and $500 ARR within 1 year of launch.
• Collaborated with Avalon Scenes (CEO - Varun Mayya $420K Pre-Seed )
• Scraped and aggregated Conference Call data of 5,000+ Indian Stock Market Listed companies for the past 5 years and performed Sentiment Analysis over it.
• Automated the end-to-end process from data scraping to performing sentiment analysis to uploading data to the database all within just 5 minutes.
• Explored various sentiment analysis models- Open sourced hugging face, Affin, Spacy and chose the most relevant & efficient for sentiment analysis over large textual stock market documents
• Started a Stock Research Platform with Niche data .
• Shodh solves issue of Financial Market Investors of not getting Niche data like Capex data aggregated into 1 Platform via leveraging the power of AI
• Shodh has around 5K Users and Lifetime traffic of 500K+ . It also got selected for Microsoft Startup Hub Program under which it received grants worth $1,50,000
• Presented Shodh at G20 Summit representing Microsoft at G20 Summit in presence of Education minister of India and delegates across 20+ countries
• Worked as a Software Developer Intern at Multipie.co ( Acquired by ICICI )
• Automated the process to send DMs to 10,000+ people at same time within 1-2 Seconds with Twitter API Saving 2-3 hours per day of Marketing/User Acquisition Team.
• Automated the Process of Data collection for Shareholding Pattern for 100+ Companies using Selenium Module in Python hours of the Content Research Team.
• Worked on analyzing Stocks based on their Annual Reports, Concalls, P&L, Cash flow statements etc and made research presentations based on the results.
• Curated content for Youtube Channel of Technofunda Investing (73K + Subscribers)
• Created Carousels & Designs for all social media platforms of Technofunda Investing and also contributed to Vivek Mashrani Sir's Book - You Can Compound ( Amazon Bestseller )
Awards
• Presented Shodh - AI-based financial markets platform at the G20 Summit in the Presence of the Education Minister of India (Shri Dharmendra Pradhan), IIT Madras Director, Founders, Teachers, and delegates across 20+ countries.
• Officially represented Microsoft at the event as Shodh was granted $150K on behalf of the Microsoft Startup Hub Program and single-handedly administered the booth on the second day of the event.
• Spoke with 25+ teachers and presented Shodh in front of 300+ students in the span of 2 days.
• Moderated startup panel discussion at IIT Guwahati during the Assam Biotech Conclave with renowned entrepreneurs in the presence of the Home Minister of India and the Education Minister of India.
• Celebrated by IIT Guwahati as the "Youngest Moderator" at Assam Biotech Conclave 2022.
• Engaged in conversation with entrepreneurs from various sectors like - Finance, Agriculture, Education, Social help by asking them discreet and critical questions and challenges every entrepreneur faces in front of 50+ people
Features
• Got interviewed about my journey into financial markets and entrepreneurship by Paisa Pani's YouTube channel in Marathi which received 1.6+ Million Views worldwide
Education
TKS is a 10-month global innovation program for ambitious high school students. Students ages 13-17 apply + interview before joining and attend weekly sessions, work on global consulting challenges with real companies and chose focuses to accelerate learning in specific areas of STEM/Entrepreneurship. I was lucky enough to be accepted on a full ride scholarship to the program.
- Teaching Assistant - Taught Artificial Intelligence to 50+ students across of grade 8, 9 and 10.
- CBSE National Science Exhibition Projects E-Wagon (Zonal Level)
- Scored 94.8% in Class X CBSE Board Examinations
- DAV MUN 3.0 UNSC Verbal Mentions Award
- Volleyball Inter-School Team Winner (Emerald)