About RnDVerse

An innovation universe for India's next era.

Traditional education ends at the classroom. Industry ends at the boardroom. Research ends in journals. RnDVerse is where they finally meet — and ship.

Vision

To make India the world's leading applied innovation ecosystem — where every campus, factory and government department is a frontier of research.

Mission

Identify real-world operational problems and solve them with AI, Robotics, IoT and Automation — at speed, at scale, with measurable impact.

Why we exist

Because brilliant research without deployment is wasted potential, and brilliant operations without research are stuck in the past.

RnDVerse
Learning with Earning

A philosophy that turns curiosity into capability and capital.

We pay students to solve real problems. We co-build with industries. We deploy with governments. Then we share the upside — through royalties, equity and revenue-share programs that turn research into sustainable institutions.

120+
live projects
9
sectors
2.4k
innovators
Our journey

From a single lab to a national ecosystem.

2022

RnDVerse founded

Born from frustration that India's brilliant research wasn't reaching the field.

2023

First institutional lab

Co-built campus innovation center with a Tier-1 engineering institute.

2024

First railway deployment

RailMind™ goes live across 3 sheds — 92% prediction accuracy in pilot.

2025

9 sectors, 45 partners

Cross-domain research portfolio scales nationally with government collaboration.

2026

International expansion

Joint research programs in Southeast Asia & GCC region.

Leadership

Operators, researchers and builders.

DAM
Dr. Aarav Mehta
Founder & Chief Research Officer

Ex-IIT, 14 years in applied AI for industrial systems.

PI
Priya Iyer
Head of Robotics

Stanford PhD, builds embodied autonomy stacks for the field.

VR
Vikram Rao
Head of Government Partnerships

Former IAS officer leading mission-mode innovation deployments.

AS
Ananya Shah
Head of Ecosystem & Talent

Designs the Learning-with-Earning programs across 45 institutions.

Operating Principles

Deploy or it didn't happen

Research with no field deployment is unfinished work.

Pay curiosity

Every contributor — student, faculty, partner — earns from outcomes.

National-scale by default

We build for the size of India's problems, not pilots.

Open where possible, IP-protected where it matters

Knowledge spreads. Commercial advantage compounds.