hey, i am surya

i'm currently building flake AI — the infrastructure for converting any website into a Figma-style interactive canvas where design edits sync back directly to clean code. we are backed by Mercatus and Emergent Ventures.

i founded 6bitHQ.in, a contrarian founder lab and media fellowship. we hosted our flagship tech summit "Void", backed by Hashed Emergent and Tether, welcoming over 1,000 attendees including founders, GPs, and builders from a16z, YC, Harvard, Yale, EF, and Founders Inc. we also host a tech roast show in June.

i am the founder of The Marg Initiative, a youth-led road safety organization impacting 50,000+ lives with over 30 volunteers across 12 cities. we are backed and recognized by both the Bengaluru Traffic Police and the United Nations, and were invited to present at the UN ECOSOC Youth Forum 2026.

to power citizen reporting, i built Rasthe.in ("Tinder for Footpaths"), an app where users can swipe, rate, and flag infrastructure directly to municipal authorities. on launch, it crossed 10,000+ users in its first week, saw half a million video views, and generated over 500+ active reports. i also built the road safety interactive simulator Roadyz.

previously, i was the founding Head of Growth at edza.ai, scaling the edtech product to 50k+ users and securing a $1.5M commitment. we later turned down a formal acquisition offer. i also had my first successful exit as the founder of Founder Zoo, and previously interned in private equity at age 13.

currently, i am also the Director at NSRI, the largest student-run research organization with 8k+ students partnering directly with MIT and Stanford. along the way, i've had the privilege to pitch my vision to the CTO of Anthropic, Jared and Ankit from YC, Mukund from Emergent, Tanay from Wispr Flow, and the founders of Rapido, Ather, PhonePe, NoBroker, and Shadowfax.