Catalyzing individuals and organizations to create positive impact.
I believe the world gets better when more people have the tools, support, and confidence to build things.
So I build things. And I help others build things. And sometimes I build the things that help others build things.
The form keeps changing — startup incubators, artisan enterprises, peace-tech platforms, AI tools. The intention doesn't.
- 🏛️ By day, I'm CEO of VentureStudio, the innovation & incubation platform at Ahmedabad University — helping founders go from idea to durable company through programs like MentorManthan, BioSangam, BIPASS, and the VentureStudio Fellowship.
- 🤖 AI optimist — I build AI tools and intelligence platforms for founders, universities, and ecosystems: contxtmd, EduStrat AI, GazetteIQ, MentorManthan, and more.
- 🧵 Co-founded Bagru Textiles — now Studio Bagru — a decade-plus connecting Rajasthan's hand block printing artisans to global markets.
- 🕊️ Founded PeaceRise — a peace-tech platform that grew to 200+ partners across 26 countries.
- 💬 Ask me about incubation design, mentor networks, university innovation, social enterprise, and building real products with AI.
- 📍 Ahmedabad, India — via Cincinnati, Bagru, and everywhere in between.
- Conscious Commerce: From College Grad to Social Entrepreneur
- Crafting a Sustainable Legacy: Studio Bagru's Journey Across Continents
- From Bagru to Cincinnati: Printing a Tapestry of Community and Creativity
- Coming Full Circle and Starting the Circle Again
Ecosystem building runs on knowledge that usually stays locked inside incubators. I open-source mine — playbooks, tools, and infrastructure for founders and the people who support them:
| Project | What it is |
|---|---|
| startup-stack | An AI-readable knowledge base for founders — startup templates, prompts, and weekly recap rituals |
| open-innovation-stack | Shared infrastructure proposal connecting founders, incubators, universities, mentors, and funders |
| startup-india-guide | Independent guide to 69 central-government startup schemes in India, with finder tools |
| site2deck | Turns any company website into a branded, offline HTML slide deck — design tokens sampled automatically |
| pressroom | Turns organizational updates into newsletters and social content |
| geo-landing-page | Astro landing-page template optimized for search engines and AI crawlers |
If something here is useful to you, a ⭐ helps other builders find it.
"Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. But with the best leaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will say 'We have done this ourselves.'" — Lao Tzu
| 🪷 Be Good | 🤲 Do Good | 🌏 Dream Good |
|---|---|---|
| The inner work. Clarity, discipline, honesty — you cannot lead well or build well from a depleted place. | The outer work. Service, contribution, community — values only matter when they become visible in action. | The long work. Leaving systems better than you found them: more peaceful, more inclusive, more capable of creating opportunity. |
Always happy to trade notes on ecosystem building, craft, peace-tech, and building with AI.
The form keeps changing. The intention doesn't. ✨
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