Vedanth Nath
💡 A 19-year-old trying to make the world a better place with Computational Neuroscience and building Public Toilets.
🥳 Also working in National Investments, Education & Sport R&D
Talent 🌱
Youngest Ever 🌿
🏆 One of the youngest ever through Startup India - Youngest Entrepreneur through India's largest Incubator Program - Youngest Employee at Invest India -Youngest Member of AIIMA, Speaker for CII - Associate to the Government of India for Urban Development - Youngest Associate to the G2RT - Gate's Foundation & Majorly everywhere I've been - but that hasn't stopped me from knowing that there are younger footballers than me playing Champions League Football.
Work 🌲
Current Projects I'm working on ⏬⚡
Quickly going through my Top 5 Projects that have engaged me for the last 6 months. For a dissection of where my brain spends most of its time & full list of XPs click here.
LooCafe
Marketing, Tech & Innovation → Since 2019
LooCafe's a WASH company whose flagship innovation are sustainable public toilets made out of shipping containers with a PoS attached.
- It's one of the few public toilet models that works, a multifunctional facility. We've helped cities improve sanitation, waste management, and sewer systems & now are pioneering in WASH as a domain.
⭐ Honors & Milestones (Click for full list) - CII Most Innovative Company x2 - MoHuA National Award x3 - Honored by Pres., PM., Various Heads of states - UNDP, BMGF, British Council - Intl. Honors. ....+20
Deep Tech & Sustainability at low-cost & scale is how we solve challenges related to WASH.
LooCafe's primary innovation is its business model & the organization's focus on sustainability.
From IoT based stink sensors, facility management apps, converting faecal matter to charcoal or ash & making more hardware-based solutions for water; we've worked on projects that have real world success stories.
Moving forward, we want to work further in WASH R&D by making more solutions in the LooCafe ecosystem + scaling and incubating other startups in the space.
What it takes to build LooCafe And why WASH + India are the underdog for global challenges.
A massive need to solve sanitation problems worldwide 4B people lack access, 60%+ world's diseases linked.
Yet WASH, globally, has always been a philanthropic effort. It's left upto the government to solve challenges in the space or social entrepreneurs who have stakeholder & liasoning constraints showering on.
An official statistic says we need 1PT per 1000 people. India's economy can harness these challenges at scale and build for the world. But with climate change, growing population, it's only going to get harder.
AI Governance
Area of Interest → Since 2024
AGI has a factor of possibly being the greatest x-risk we face. AI governance is an area of global focus to build global capacity for worldwide economic change.
Working for projects at scale, India, governance & policy have been my areas of focus with WASH, and I strongly believe in the potential understanding potential solutions can have for mitigating x-risk.
Current focus on: Transition impact mitigation & x-risk boundary framework for long-term alignment.
I mainly just read, learn & do idea boxing for this space as of now.
⚙️Why AI Governance
❇️Implementation Scope
Nexteen
Founder → Since 2021
Fuelled by ambition, Nexteen is a human-accelerator program for young people to ignite their potential.
We've created a program where the bar for changemaking is set high to impact billions.
Nexteen's a human accelerator program for 13-19-year-olds focused on emerging tech, mindsets and skills.
🌠 Honors & Milestones - Featured at the UN - Emergent Ventures Grant Winner - Most promising talent in Education - Startup20 G20 Feature + Speaker +15... more
Human Accelerator Program
Emerging Technologies & Sciences
Be at the forefront of innovation by learning about emerging technologies and applied sciences that are changing the world. Areas like Blockchain, Genomics, and Water Engineering would change our future and encourage you to make an impact.
Worldwide community - Global Challenges
An ecosystem inclined towards solving some of the world's biggest challenges. Like-Minded people from around the globe focused on various projects together. Work with leading startups & companies & their case studies and connect with unique opportunities.
Since starting the program, I've been fascinated by how it could impact young people and make their currency officially 'insight'. Read here.
Invest India
Domestic Investor's Desk→ July/August → December 2023
Invest India's is India's National Investment Promotion Agency. I worked with the Atmanirbhar Niveshak Mitra or the Domestic Investors' Desk which facilitated domestic companies with other parts of Invest India and liasoned with MSMEs to the biggest companies of India - helping them expand.
- Met numerous influential CXOs, government officials, led a project on team presentation & facilitated market research for operational expansion.
I've always wanted to work with the government, with a team that's driven.
Framing policy, developing Economic Growth and supporting companies by helping them have agency over growing in India - we're helping Indian corporates get over the edge. Whether it's through Invest India or its subsidiaries in Startup India, AGNII, Make In India etc.
So much more than a matter of pride for working with the government ->
iRise Travels
@Ops, Tech, Sales → Since Feb 2024
Flight tickets always cheaper than the internet. Also, hotels sometimes! No payment required upfront.
A new innovative company under the Ixora Group that's unconventionally disrupting the travel industry, by sourcing tickets in bulk and using tech to find the lowest rates offline - cheaper than online prices.
We've done over 700 tickets in 3 months since we founded :)
Check our website out:
Dr. Rabinder Nath Foundation
Member & Organizer → Since March 2020
Started during the pandemic, I worked with the foundation driven by my commitment for doing good things.
- As the founding member of the free-chai counter program, we serve free food & tea to everyone all day, with the motto of no-one should sleep hungry.
- Fundraising & organizational efforts to run animal rescue drives, education & sanitation.
- We've helped over 15 projects, and millions of individuals through altruism so far, and we're doing much more.
Read more about our work and get involved:
Balancing University & Work
Creatively Balancing→ Since September 2023
I've been grateful to go to a university close to my work HQ, I'm studying Business & Economics as a first-year undergraduate.
I'm using my time at college to meet people; finish exams & rejuvenate from work.
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