I'm Dhanush. I grew up in Erode, a town most people drive through on the way to somewhere bigger.
I studied genetic engineering. Did my master's in University of Bergen (UiB). Spent time in a lab at Harvard Medical School. And then I did the thing almost everyone advised me against: I came back.
Not to Bangalore. Not to Boston. To Erode.
Since then I've been building. MARABANU, a venture studio for founders in Tier 2 and Tier 3 India. A mushroom farm. An agritech venture. A bioinformatics platform. Some of it worked. Some of it taught me lessons I'd rather not repeat. All of it convinced me of one thing: the talent in places like this isn't missing. It's just unclaimed.
I've spent long enough building alone. Here's what's next, and who I'm looking for.
1. BioHub
A platform that takes research from patent to commercialisation. Thousands of Indian patents sit in university drawers and never become products. I want to fix that pipeline. Looking for: tech transfer people, scientists who want their work to leave the lab, IP folks, operators.
2. The Drone Company
India's fastest drone. That's the whole brief. Looking for: aerodynamics and propulsion nerds, embedded systems and flight controller engineers, FPV builders, people who have crashed a lot of things and learned from it.
3. The Exoskeleton Project
Wearable support for two kinds of people: factory workers whose bodies are breaking down from the job, and people living with Muscular Dystrophy and similar conditions. Looking for: biomechanics, robotics and actuator engineers, physiotherapists, clinicians, industrial designers.
4. D Studio
A marketing agency built AI-native from day one, not an old agency with AI bolted on. Real output, real speed, real results for businesses. Looking for: AI-fluent creatives, performance marketers, video and motion people, brand strategists.
5. Ground-level operators
This one is unglamorous and I mean that as a compliment. People who will sit at the mandi, the collection centre, the warehouse and actually build supply chains for dairy, agri produce and FMCG. Looking for: people who prefer field over desk, who know logistics, procurement and farmer networks.
6. Gen.AI
Genetic counselling in India, delivered with the same reach and reliability as diagnostic care. Right now it's a luxury available to almost no one. Looking for: genetic counsellors, clinicians, healthcare operators, product people.
7. D Invest
A VC firm to invest in and build startups across the world. This one needs two things: investors who want to back founders others overlook, and people who want to help build the firm itself.
If you read one of these and felt something tighten in your chest, that's the signal. DM me.
No résumé required. No permission required. Just tell me which number, and what you'd do with it.
I'll reply to every single one.
20 Septembre 2026 à 19h25
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