--- title: "Vedant Agarwal - Founding Member in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal" description: "Meet Vedant Agarwal, Analyst and Researcher | Deep in Money, Machines & Medicine | Writing Hybrid Economies | CS & FinTech at MIT Manipal based in Greater Bengaluru Area. AI stack includes claude code, codex, and cursor. Explore public work links including vedant.systems." image: "https://tal.club/meet/vedant-agarwal-2/share-image" --- # Vedant Agarwal on Tal ## Headline Analyst and Researcher \| Deep in Money, Machines & Medicine \| Writing Hybrid Economies \| CS & FinTech at MIT Manipal ## About I鈥檓 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鈥檝e 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鈥檓 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\. 馃摡 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 路 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 路 2 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India Growth and Ecosystem at Lyzr AI, May 2026 \- Aug 2026 路 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 路 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 路 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 路 1 yr Coding Taskphase at Team RoboManipal, Aug 2023 \- Aug 2024 路 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/ [View the original profile](https://tal.club/meet/vedant-agarwal-2) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Person", "@id": "https://tal.club/meet/vedant-agarwal-2#person", "name": "Vedant Agarwal", "url": "https://tal.club/meet/vedant-agarwal-2", "image": "https://tal.club/meet/vedant-agarwal-2/profile-photo.jpg", "description": "Meet Vedant Agarwal, Analyst and Researcher | Deep in Money, Machines & Medicine | Writing Hybrid Economies | CS & FinTech at MIT Manipal based in Greater Bengaluru Area. AI stack includes claude code, codex, and cursor. 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