Venu Prasad

I like building things that hold up, not demos that die the Monday after a hackathon. That instinct took a small team of us to 2nd place at Hacker Ring after 24 sleepless hours and a lot of Red Bull. Same instinct behind a heart attack prediction model I built with a few classmates, over 90% accuracy on real clinical data.

Now it's behind Savitara. Most urban Indian families have lost their family priest somewhere between moving cities and losing touch, and there's nowhere trustworthy to turn for a wedding or a naming ceremony. It's a ₹10,000 crore industry still running on cold search results and hope. I'm building the trust layer for it, verification, escrow, accountability, the way Urban Company did it for home services, except for priests. Building it with my co-founder Shrisha, who I've now built three things with.

Before this I was shipping production code at HackCulture and Cothon Solutions, and spent two years helping run my college's CS and Design community. Just finished my degree, still writing code, now learning to ask someone to bet money on an idea. If you're building something real, I'd like to hear about it.

Building Savitara, trying to bring a trust layer to a ₹10,000 crore Indian industry that still runs on cold Google searches and blind luck. Stuck on the first cheque. Chasing the point where this stops sounding like a weird idea