Kesava Dinakaran
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CEO and Founder
California, United States
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Thiel FellowThe Thiel FoundationFeb 2023 - Current (3 years 5 months)- CEO and Co-FounderLuminaiAug 2020 - Current (5 years 11 months)Luminai helps automate repetitive manual work away from your mission critical business processes in enterprise healthcare organizations. https://luminai.com Backed by General Catalyst, Craft Ventures, Y Combinator, and a bunch of others we haven't announced yet. We’ve raised ~$60 million till date. We’re hiring across all roles: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/luminai?utm_source=kkd
- Startups + exploredsomething newMay 2018 - Mar 2020 (1 year 11 months)Experimented, explored, and built things. Cycled from Europe to Asia across the Silk Road, moved from India to Silicon Valley, lived off hackathon prize money, and ideated to land eventually on building Luminai.
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- International Baccalaureate (High School DiplomaUWC Mahindra CollegeJan 2016 - Dec 2018 (3 years)Full ride scholarship — I was terrible at school but I guess solving Rubik's cubes helped :) Extended Essay Research Question: What is the influence of cinema in Dravidian politics in southern India?
- Summer 2020Y Combinator
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- IWinner of the Infosys Nutrition PrizeInfosys Science Foundation and New York Academy of SciencesJan 2019Named as the winning project of the Infosys Nutrition Prize for creating a revamped intervention model to tackle malnutrition in India. The model included the creation of a nutrient pod, the use of a proprietary algorithm to allocate government resources, and a more efficient delivery system to tackle the problem on a grassroot level. Project selected as winner from over 3000 students (~1000+ submissions). My team was awarded by Amartya Sen and Mohandas Pai at the Infosys Prize ceremony in Bangalore, India. Our team was awarded with 25,00,000 INR (US$35,000) and an opportunity to watch the launch of the PSLV-C45 at ISRO.
- GGuinness World Record for "Most Number of Rubik's Cubes Solved in One Hour"Guinness Book of World RecordsAug 2015I broke the Guinness World Record for the most number of Rubik's Cubes solved in one hour. I solved 290 Rubik's Cubes and broke the previous record by 80 cubes (former record stood at 210 cubes).