Ventures
Institutions, not initiatives.
Each of these began as a bottleneck he could not stop thinking about: a village without a library, a university without an electron microscope, a district without clean water, a student without a frontier.
01 / Founder & CEO
Kalam Centre
Established in 2015, after Dr. Kalam’s passing, to carry his mission forward rather than commemorate it.
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450+ free libraries across 14 Indian states, serving highly marginalised communities
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Kalam Bharat Fellowship: 600+ auxiliary teachers placed in 300 government schools and juvenile centres
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450,000+ children trained in emerging skills by those fellows
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Multilingual animation laboratory producing educational content for underprivileged children
02 / Founder & CEO
Homi Lab
World's first Future Learning Lab, founded in 2021 to transform education through immersive, VR-enabled laboratories.
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12 immersive centres across India
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450,000+ learners trained in emerging future sciences and technologies
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Complex research instruments and equipment — Scanning and Transmission Electron Microscopes, X-ray Diffraction and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance systems, replicated so students can run complex experiments safely and affordably
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6,000+ university students served across the Kanpur districts with Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University
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The world’s first case-study simulation lab, built with Lucknow University for over 10,000 management students
03 / Lead Architect
AI for All
A 75-hour artificial intelligence course delivered in Hindi, designed for learners who have never written a line of code, implemented with Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, Kanpur and Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut.
Reach
150,000+
Students across science, commerce and humanities streams.
Volume
100M+
Learning hours collectively delivered.
Method
Gamified
Hands-on projects and mentorship, built for non-coding learners.
Teachers
500+
Educators trained across multiple states in AI, ethics and creativity.
A parallel programme with the New Delhi Municipal Council delivered hands-on AI capacity building to 300 students and 240 teachers in government schools, more than 8,000 hours of training on foundational AI literacy and classroom integration.
04 / Founder
Right to Water & InnoBlu
A policy and technology effort to secure universal access to clean drinking water.
In 2018, he launched InnoBlu, India’s first water startup incubator, inaugurated by the Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog. The data it generated has meaningfully shaped national approaches to the clean water challenge. He also serves on the Board of the Maharashtra Government’s Centre for Innovation and Progressive Regulation under the Maharashtra Water Regulatory Authority.
05 / Founder
Innovation & Governance Summit
Grassroots innovation, taken seriously by the people who administer the country.
The Summit has engaged more than 100 senior civil service officers in surfacing and scaling innovation from within government. The 2019 edition was graced by the Vice President of India.
06 / Initiator
UKCA Mars Mission India
In partnership with the UK Centre for Astrobiology, University of Edinburgh.
The programme enables Indian students to work with experts from the European Space Agency, NASA and Australian space agencies on technologies for human habitation on Mars by 2035. It operates from an underground research facility 2.5 kilometres below the Earth’s surface — the closest analogue to sealed planetary habitation available on this planet.
07 / Culture & Knowledge Systems
Older technologies, also worth saving.
Red Fort
Atmanirbhar Centre for Design
As social business strategist, he developed business and market strategies for master artisans under ABCD at the Red Fort, hosted by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, supporting 23 rare Indian art forms through product design and technology-enabled interventions.
Ministry of Culture
Dhara
Part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, Dhara: An Ode to Indian Knowledge Systems brought together ministries, academia and industry to build frameworks for preserving and promoting traditional Indian knowledge.
Chief Mentor
Jigyasa
A generative-AI quiz dedicated to Bharat, delivered in 17 languages and played by more than one million users across 102 countries and 500+ Indian districts, including participation by persons with disabilities.
Partnerships
Bring one of these to your state,
university or district.
Kalam Centre and Homi Lab work with governments, universities and CSR partners to deploy libraries, fellowships, immersive laboratories and AI curricula at scale.