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title: "Manasa Gonchigar - Senior Product Manager - Critical infrastructure in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Manasa Gonchigar, Driving Tech Excellence at SatSure | Founder, PureScan AI | IIT Madras Alum based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, claude, and notebooklm."
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# Manasa Gonchigar on Tal

## Headline

Driving Tech Excellence at SatSure \| Founder, PureScan AI \| IIT Madras Alum

## About

I've always been drawn to problems where the answer doesn't exist yet — which is probably why I ended up founding a startup straight out of IIT Madras, doing spectral sensing research, and eventually finding my way into satellite intelligence\. At SatSure, I've worn a few hats — Chief of Staff, Solutions, Product — and that breadth has been the most useful thing\. I know how strategy gets made, where it breaks down in execution, and how to close the gap between the two\. Along the way I've shipped products across forestry, agri\-tech, and critical infrastructure; secured \~$3M in R&D funding; and increasingly, built things hands\-on — dashboards, LLM\-powered tools, prototypes — not just scoped them\. Before SatSure, I founded PureScanAI — built the core technology myself, filed a patent, won a CGIAR grant and UNDP's Social Entrepreneur of the Year\. It taught me early that the hardest part of any hard problem isn't the technology\. I'm at my best when the problem is ambiguous, the stakes are real, and there's room to think and build in the same breath\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

claude

notebooklm

## Work experience

Senior Product Manager \- Critical infrastructure at SatSure, Jan 2026 \- Jun 2026 · 6 mos, Owned product development across two critical infrastructure verticals — vegetation management for power & utility lines, and road condition monitoring — shipping multiple POCs independently as a solo builder\. Vegetation Management 1\. Engineered a sensor and resolution\-agnostic DSM pipeline for canopy detection with sub\-meter accuracy, benchmarked at 30cm resolution — enabling reliable vegetation encroachment detection\. 2\. Built client\-facing dashboards using Claude Code — featuring grid/field views, map\-based visualization, condition tracking, and auto\-generated maintenance plans — deployed directly for POC\. 3\. Modelled unit economics across multiple satellite imagery vendors to identify optimal cost structure and validate commercial viability\. 4\. Ran a full outbound sales motion across 4 markets — email campaigns, AWS Marketplace listing, 6 client pitches, and POCs in 2 geographies\. Road Infrastructure 1\. Shipped a road defect monitoring POC achieving Pavement Condition Index estimation at <10\-point error using satellite imagery\. 2\. Built a route planning POC with multi\-criteria rule engines for optimal path selection across geographies\.

Senior Solutions Consultant at SatSure, Nov 2024 \- Dec 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos, 1\. Built and launched SatSure's forestry intelligence product from zero — owning solution architecture, use cases, and GTM — generating \~255K AUD in new ARR\. 2\. Authored and pitched the end\-to\-end proposal for SatSure's Foundation Models for Earth Observation strategy; secured the TAF grant worth ₹25 Cr \(\~$3M USD\) to fund R&D\. 3\. Opened strategic international partnerships in Australia and Saudi Arabia, laying the groundwork for market entry in both geographies\. 4\. Built rapid prototypes to validate product\-market fit across 6 new verticals — rooftop solar sales intelligence, property insurance, road condition monitoring, deforestation detection, and climate risk \(wildfire, flood, drought, landslide\)\.

Chief of Staff \- CEO & CTO at SatSure, Jun 2023 \- Oct 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos

Growth Consultant at Neoperk Technologies, Jan 2023 \- Jun 2023 · 6 mos, Remote

Chief of Staff at Fyn, Nov 2022 \- Feb 2023 · 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Global cohort member at Thought For Food, Jun 2021 \- Feb 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos, Food systems game changer's lab was created by TFF and other organisations to solve problems by addressing root causes\. Part of cohort "Food safety and traceability", one among 12 members from across the globe\. Supported a root cause analysis and conducted a pilot for Farmers in 3 locations across India\.

Founder at Pure Scan AI, May 2019 \- Jun 2023 · 4 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, At PureScan we envision to make food safe, one ingredient at a time\! We are a deep tech startup working on unmasking the chemicals, pests and adulteration in food through simple devices\.

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \(B\.Tech\.\), Engineering Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Pre\-University, PCMB \( science \), Deeksha PU College

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