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Analyst and Researcher | Deep in Money, Machines & Medicine | Writing Hybrid Economies | CS & FinTech at MIT Manipal

About

I’m a FinTech analyst with a slightly unreasonable range of side quests and somehow ended up doing AI, product, research, robotics, consulting, growth and a little bit of everything in between. I’ve worked at a management consulting firm on problems for companies from Google to Amazon, built conversational AI and fintech systems, helped take an AI wearables ecosystem into India to 2,500+ users and 40K+ monthly engagements, and spent a frankly unreasonable amount of time building things of my own. There are 6 patents, 2 published papers, a Springer book chapter, 5 papers under review, two RoboCup appearances and a 400+ member uni club I founded somewhere in there too. These days I’m mostly interested in fintech, emerging technology and the stuff happening in between the two. I like research, but I like finding out whether the idea actually survives contact with the market even more. I also run VersionTwo, an independent FinTech media company, and write Hybrid Economies, where I publish my thinking on fintech and where money is heading. If you're working on something I should be paying attention to, or want me involved, send it my way. 📩 vedant.agarwal312@gmail.com

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

claude code

codex

cursor

geminicli

kimi

langchain

Work experience

Founding Member at Inner Circle, Feb 2026 - Present · 10 mos, Hybrid, Experimenting with the on-chain and AI ecosystem in India. Building with cracked talent and veterans in the working on emerging tech.

Platform Strategy at Zinnov, Jun 2026 - Jul 2026 · 2 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India

Growth and Ecosystem at Lyzr AI, May 2026 - Aug 2026 · 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Growing the builder community around an enterprise agentic AI platform. Driving distribution, ecosystem engagement, and developer adoption for a platform used by teams building production AI agents.

Senior Artificial Intelligence Researcher at Team RoboManipal, May 2025 - Aug 2026 · 1 yr 4 mos, Built autonomous systems that competed. Researched, tested and patented AI and robotic systems from computer vision to decision patterns. Represented India at RoboCup Brazil 2025 and Germany 2026. Top-20 nationally at DD Robocon 2024. Participated in several hackathons and events with the team. The kind of work that teaches you what breaks under pressure.

President - Founder at Finova, MIT Manipal, Oct 2024 - Aug 2026 · 1 yr 11 mos, Manipal, Built a fintech-focused technical community from the ground up, making it the largest(400+members) in the university within a year. Ran initiatives across quant, blockchain, investment banking, and emerging tech. Organized multiple events and workshops with overall 3000+ footfall and industrial partnerships. Less club, more war room.

Artificial Intelligence Researcher at Team RoboManipal, Jun 2024 - May 2025 · 1 yr

Coding Taskphase at Team RoboManipal, Aug 2023 - Aug 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science and Financial Technology, Manipal institute of technology

Delhi Public School - Bangalore South

Public links

vedant.systems: https://www.vedant.systems/