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title: "Swapnil Bagad - Entrepreneur in Residence in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Swapnil Bagad, AppsForBharat | 0 to 1 🚩 | Building Faith-Tech based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes anthropic apis, claude code, and claude."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/swapnil-bagad/share-image"
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# Swapnil Bagad on Tal

## Headline

AppsForBharat \| 0 to 1 🚩 \| Building Faith\-Tech

## About

Entrepreneur\-in\-Residence @ AppsForBharat \| Entrepreneur\-in\-Residence @ Dezy \| Founder @ Teethalin \(Acqui\-hired\) I’ve always gravitated toward building products that shape how people live, heal, and connect\. That journey has taken me from dental healthtech to now creating spiritual and devotional experiences for Bharat\. At AppsForBharat \(SriMandir\), I work across strategy, operations, growth, and product to scale offerings like Daily Mantra & Daily Darshan, digital experiences that bring temple darshan into every devotee’s home\. I also contribute to SriYatra, our offline spiritual travel initiative enabling structured, seamless temple visits across Ayodhya, Varanasi, and other sacred hubs\. In parallel, I work on scaling astrology\-led growth initiatives across Kundli, Puja, and devotional commerce, helping deepen user engagement and unlock new spiritual journeys for devotees digitally\. Previously, as Chief of Staff at Dezy \(Smiles\.ai\), I drove company\-wide strategy, led multi\-city operations, improved patient journeys, launched clinics and GTMs, and implemented tech\-led workflows during hypergrowth\. Before that, I founded Teethalin, a smile\-correction startup incubated at COEP & IIM Bangalore — my first zero\-to\-one lesson in solving real user problems with agility\. Across roles, a few principles guide me: • Build systems that scale • Stay close to the user • Solve meaningful India\-first problems • Move with speed and clarity Rooted in tech\. Driven by impact\. Built to scale\. Always happy to connect with founders and operators building ambitious, Bharat\-focused products

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

claude

cursor

## Work experience

Entrepreneur in Residence at AppsForBharat, Apr 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Entrepreneur in Residence \- Founder's Office at Smiles\.ai, Mar 2022 \- Mar 2025 · 3 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Incubatee at COEP's Bhau Institute of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Leadership, Sep 2020 \- Sep 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo, COEP's Bhau Institute, an approved incubator by the Department of Science and Technology, is a startup incubation center at Pune, promoting Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Founder at TEETHALIN, Jan 2020 \- Feb 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Pune District, Maharashtra, India, To bring a perfect smile with no hassle anymore at any age :\)

Jagriti Ambassador for District Entrepreneurship at Jagriti Yatra, Jan 2020 \- Mar 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

Yatri at Jagriti Yatra, Dec 2019 \- Jan 2020 · 2 mos, India, Jagriti Yatra is world's longest entrepreneurial train journey to built sustainable enterprise that will take you 8000 kilometres across the length and breadth of India, to understand and build the India of smaller towns and villages through enterprise\.and you will get the opportunity to meet like minded people from across globe who are great entrepreneurs, researchers and change creator to make a world a better place

## Education

Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, Savitribai Phule Pune University

Startup School Online

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