Headline

CoFounder in stealth | Ex PM @ Jio Embibe, Blackbuck | DCE | Failed 2 startups

About

Absorbing every lesson that startup ecosystem has to offer. Build | Measure | Document | Analyse | Learn | Repeat

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

elevenlabs

gemini

Figma Make

Firecrawl

Google ADK

Work experience

Co-Founder at Stealth Startup, Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Co-Founder at Tuto - AI tutor for K12, Jul 2024 - Aug 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Created an audio first book reading experience, as reading aloud or listening while reading leads to improved retention. but what the research on this pedagogy didn't underline is that this pedagogy results in decreased comprehension - Created an interest-led audio tutor, so every student have a smart AI buddy whom they can talk to and discuss the concepts while the AI tutor puts an interesting spin of interest on boring curriculum. realised active learning takes time and why talk to an AI about a concept for 30mins when you can passively watch a video in 10 - Create the diagnostic first AI tutor, because while there are 100s of resources a student can learn from there are close to none where they can get feedback on what they learnt and their learning gaps. while learning gap identification is a superb value prop. Executional challanges include: ghar pe kalesh because you see weaknesses of your child and students feel intimidated as the primary purpose of a diagnostic tutor is to ask questions.

Co-Founder at GlutaClass, Oct 2023 - Aug 2024 · 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Interest-led one-on-one tutoring to teach curriculum concepts (ran ~1200 demos and 31 students onboarded), quality detoriated as more and more students and demos got scheduled - Realised preparing learning content for only one time use is very operationally challenging and this is not the way to go - Created a repository of 400+ CER(Claim-Evidence-Reasoning) simulation assisted with AI for K12 Science and Maths, realised stand alone simulations can not provide retention - sold to bunch of schools but b2b is not the way to go (for me). - Created a parent app with activities and discussions to stimulate intellectual curiosity in their kids and equip them with frameworks and mental models to improve soft skills, while this peoblem was very prominent but it is a tarpit because, spending time with the kids is latent need and wishful thinking, no parent actually wants to do this after coming from work.

Senior Product Manager at Chingari, Jun 2022 - Apr 2023 · 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Led Solana to Aptos migration for all chingari's in app blockchain functionalities - Created India's 1st NFT market place for trading short videos - Built developer ecosystem for chingari by open sourcing in-app blockchain wallet sdk and apis

All things PnC! (Product & Community) at Doss.games, Nov 2021 - Feb 2022 · 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, The first web 3.0 mobile metaverse creation app built on Solana blockchain which helps creators mint their own social tokens, build metaverses, conduct real time virtual events, build and play personalised games and much more with the power of AI assisted creation. We are backed by some of the India's foremost investors and silicon valley advisors. If you to want to join the metaverse revolution then shoot me a note at catchanushank@gmail.com or DM if you wish to join our core team in the product, engineering, and growth roles

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Mathematics and Computer Science, Delhi College of Engineering

Dewan public school, Meerut