Emergent Ventures India, sixth cohort, post and selection done by Shruti Rajagopalan

Akash Kulgod is a 23-year-old cognitive science graduate from the University of California, Berkeley and a canine lead at Dognosis, where he develops technology that increases the bandwidth of human-dog communication. He received his EV grant for a pilot study in northern Karnataka testing the performance of cyberdogs in screening breath samples for multiple cancers. He writes on his Substack.

A travel grant for the four-member team representing India at the 20th International Linguistics Olympiad in Bansko, Bulgaria below:

Faraz Ahmed Siddiqui is a 17-year-old high school student from Mumbai. He received his EV scholarship to participate in the 20th International Linguistics Olympiad in Bansko, Bulgaria, where he won a silver medal. He now wants to popularize linguistics in India. He also enjoys studying and teaching astronomy and physics. His team (Anshul, Animikha and Diya) also received a travel scholarship to participate in the Olympiad.

Anshul Krishnadas Bhagwat is an 18-year-old polyglot with a passion for languages ​​and linguistics. He is fluent in over 9 languages ​​(English, Hindi, Konkani, Marathi, Kannada, Portuguese, Spanish, German, French) and is learning many more. He (and his team) received an EV scholarship to participate in the 20th International Linguistics Olympiad in Bulgaria, where he won an honorable mention.

Animikha Dutta Dhar is a 16-year-old girl from Kolkata who is passionate about mathematics, linguistics and problem solving. She received her EV scholarship to participate in the 20th International Linguistics Olympiad in Bulgaria.

Diya Agrawal is an 18-year-old girl from Bangalore who is interested in biology, law and linguistics. She received an EV scholarship to apply to universities in the USA and to participate in the 20th International Linguistics Olympiad in Bulgaria.

Yakara Ganesh is a 24-year-old social entrepreneur and the founder of Samskar Electronics. He received his EV grant to develop the “Samskar Toy”, an interactive device designed to educate young children about sexual abuse (a very significant and underreported issue in India).

Arpit Shukla is a 25-year-old social entrepreneur and researcher from Varanasi. He received his EV grant to develop and test his low-cost AI-based bone conduction hearing aid for people with hearing loss and disabilities. The device is programmed to prevent loss of voice data and features active noise cancellation.

Parth Verma is a 26-year-old mechanical engineer and the founder of Bakz4ever. He is working on Carbon Bank technology, a 2-in-1 climate solution for low-cost direct air carbon capture with long-duration energy storage, to support and stabilize a 100% renewable grid.

Shivaganesh Gaddam is the founder of Zeni5, an innovative neobanking solution designed specifically for students, offering a convenient platform to manage their payments and benefits, introduce them to financial literacy and reward them with digital gold rebates on every purchase.

Dalmia Shweta is a 26-year-old entrepreneur from Delhi, Founder and CEO of Climapreneur. She received her EV grant to develop her podcast, through which she provides insights into the climate startup and nonprofit ecosystem and introduces opportunities to entrepreneurs.

Atul Singhal and its co-founder Sudhanshu Singh The company received an EV grant to grow its startup Cuvette, which connects students from small towns in India looking for internships and jobs in software development with employers. Currently, Cuvette is already used by over 400,000 users and has over 6,000 partner companies.

Anagha Rajesh Anagha is a 21-year-old Chemistry student at BITS Goa and believes that the future of computing will be driven by biomolecules. She was awarded an EV grant to build a bacteria-driven DNA nanochip to enable next-generation computing and storage. Prior to this, Anagha spent four years building and scaling Yours Mindfully, a mental health non-profit that has impacted over 10,000 people.

Gautham Pasupuleti is the CEO and Managing Director of Biodesign Innovation Labs in Bangalore. He received his EV grant to develop and scale RespirAID, a patented medical technology that provides a safe, affordable and reliable alternative to manual ventilation.

Shashank Aswathanarayana is a 34-year-old music technologist, percussionist, and postdoctoral researcher at American University. He received an EV Fellowship to travel across southern India to build a comprehensive acoustic image of Hindu temples.

Shankar Sri is the 22-year-old founder of Sputnik Brain (renamed Neural Inception in the US). He is building a non-surgical neural interface to democratize access to happiness via the brain’s serotonin circuits to initially solve treatment-resistant depression, and ultimately hope to create a human civilization without suffering.

Rahul Sagar Rahul is a Global Network Associate Professor at New York University Abu Dhabi. He created Ideas of India, a new database that indexes all English-language periodicals published in India between 1800 and 1950. More than 150 researchers have tracked down and indexed these lost publications, resulting in 300,000 entries from more than 400 periodicals in 175 libraries around the world. Rahul’s EV Fellowship will fund an “off-the-grid” hunt, sending teams to manually search libraries that have only paper records of their holdings, in the hopes of uncovering endangered archives.

Hardeep Gambhir is a 20 year old from New Delhi/Toronto who is interested in improving education and the future of humanity. He received his EV scholarship for his general career development and to take a gap year from university to set up his educational/community initiative called The Residency, a home for the ambitious.

Those unfamiliar with Emergent Ventures can read more here and here . The EV India announcement is here . More information on the EV India cohort 2, cohort 3, cohort 4, and cohort 5 winners. To apply to EV Indiause the EV application, click on the “Apply Now” button and select India from the “My project will have an impact” drop-down menu.

If you are interested in supporting the India tranche of Emergent Ventures, please write to me or Shruti at [email protected].

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