Catalyzing individuals and organizations to create positive impact.

I believe the world gets better when more people have the tools, support, and confidence to build things. So I build things, I help others build things, and sometimes I build the things that help others build things.

I'm VP of Platform & Member Engagement at Embarc Collective, the startup hub in Downtown Tampa. 📍 Tampa Bay, by way of Ahmedabad, Bagru, and Cincinnati.

A shared 3D universe where every startup community's map is a planet you can travel to. Each map runs on portfolio-map-3d, my open-source framework that turns an accelerator cohort, an incubator's members, a fund's portfolio, or a region's startups into a turning globe, a world you walk through, and a searchable directory. The network has seven maps so far, from Tampa to Ahmedabad. Build your own, and join with a one-file pull request.

All 127 Embarc Collective member companies, sorted into 15 industry districts, plus our 18 coaches. You can explore them as a rotating globe or a campus you walk through, or use the provider finder to ask whether a member can do something for you. This is Embarc's planet in the Nexus.

Publish your first website by telling an AI agent what you want. You type or dictate, and Claude Code or Codex does the work. Five steps: a GitHub account, an agent, just enough Git, a starter to make your own, and GitHub Pages. It's written for people who have never shipped a site.

The documents every startup should have, compiled into a knowledge base an AI can actually read. Put your deck, research, and call notes in one folder. One prompt turns them into a ten-section stack, and 19 more prompts run on top of it: the pitch deck, the list of 100, unit economics, the weekly recap. It's plain markdown, needs no code, and works with any AI that can read your files. Read it as a site →

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Over the years I've built startup incubators, an artisan enterprise, a peace-tech platform, and AI tools.

• 🧵  Co-founded Bagru Textiles, now Studio Bagru. For fifteen years it has connected Rajasthan's hand block printing artisans to global markets.
• 🕊️  Founded PeaceRise, a peace-tech platform that grew to 200+ partners across 26 countries.
• 🌱  Director of Startup Services at Alloy Growth Lab in Greater Cincinnati.
• 🏛️  CEO of VentureStudio, the innovation and incubation platform at Ahmedabad University.

"Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. But with the best leaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will say 'We have done this ourselves.'" — Lao Tzu

The Nexus · Embarc Member Map · Quickstart · startup-stack · Embarc Collective

The form keeps changing. The intention doesn't. ✨

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