I was born in Surat and grew up in Rajkot, surrounded by traders, small manufacturers, and family businesses. Business has always been a crucial part of life, and somewhere along the way I got genuinely curious about how it all worked. I’ve always been someone who reads into things and struggles to leave an interesting problem alone. During the lockdown in sixth grade I was teaching myself about artificial intelligence. A few years later I was spending weekends traveling to villages around Rajkot, working directly with farmers on Zero Budget Natural Farming and helping them move away from chemical inputs. That project grew to reach over 600 farmers, was recognised by the District Council, and took me to a conversation with Gujarat’s Agriculture Minister. I wasn’t chasing any of that. The problem was interesting and I wanted to see how far I could take it.

At some point my curiosity settled on capital and how it moves. After my IGCSEs, while most people my age were on vacation, I was interning at Avinya Ventures, an early-stage VC fund, sitting in on deal evaluations, working through pitch decks, and trying to understand what serious investors actually look for in an early business. That experience made a lot of things click. The IB years that followed reinforced the direction, particularly through Mathematics and Economics, and I spent time running independent research on agricultural economics, applying regression analysis across data from 50 villages to study the impact of fertiliser policy on farmer profitability. The common thread across all of it was wanting to understand systems well enough to say something precise about them.

In August 2026 I’m joining Emory University’s Goizueta Business School as part of the Class of 2030 to study Finance, the first in my family to attend university. I’m interested in how capital finds its way to the right places, what makes that judgment difficult, and how the best investors and builders develop it over time. That’s the work I want to be close to, and I’m looking to spend the next few years building the foundation to do it seriously.