San Francisco

You have a product idea inspired by an Indian problem and want to build it live.

You design experiences, tell stories through film, or create content about India.

You want to preserve a language, document history, or create something cultural.

You see a problem in your community and want to do something about it.

Jivanshu works on community and platform at GrowthX, and co-founded GenX24, a growth marketing agency for startups.

He has built communities for top builders and operators at GrowthX while running content and marketing across his own ventures.

His experience curating rooms where builders come together to create is exactly what Build for India needs on the ground in Mumbai.

A working prototype or creation inspired by an Indian problem

Curated India-first problem statements to build from, or bring your own

Priced at ₹79 for India's 79th Independence Day. The fee only reduces no-shows.

₹79 ticket, no profit

Come with your laptop, charger, and teammates if you have a team.

Bring your laptop and charger

Meals and refreshments provided during the event.

Food is included

Please ensure it's correct, incorrect Org IDs won't receive credits, and we won't be able to assist.

Add your OpenAI Org ID (find it at platform.openai.com/orgid)

Anyone. Whether you're a founder, engineer, designer, researcher, creator, filmmaker, artist, or simply someone with an idea inspired by India, you're welcome.

Who can participate?

Yes. You can register individually or participate with your team.

Can I participate as a team?

No. We'll share a curated set of India-first problem statements, but you're welcome to bring your own idea.

Do I have to build from the given problem statements?

To celebrate India's 79th Independence Day, tickets are priced at ₹79. The fee simply helps reduce no-shows. GrowthX does not make any profit from ticket sales.

Why is there a ₹79 ticket?

Bring your laptop, charger, and your curiosity. If you're participating as a team, bring your teammates too.

What should I bring?

Yes. Meals and refreshments will be provided during the event.

Is food included?

The focus of Build for India is celebrating creation and meaningful ideas. Any awards or recognitions will be announced closer to the event.

Will there be prizes?

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This is an 8-hour buildathon — you'll need your laptop to build and ship.

Bring your laptop

The buildathon runs for a full 8 hours, so plan your day accordingly.

It's an 8-hour commitment

Meals and refreshments are provided, so no need to eat beforehand.

Food is covered

If you can't attend, opt out early — cancellations aren't refunded.

No refunds for no-shows

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Okta

I currently lead the team responsible for the delivery platform at Okta as well as tooling for kubernetes and cloud infrastructure

Boku

EON Reality

• Worked as a Backend Engineer to implement and deploy a video transcoding and streaming web
application using AWS Elastic Transcoder and AWS EC2 for a VR fan experience for top tier
European soccer clubs for hundreds of users
• Used AWS Lambda and S3 for uploading and transcoding 360 and 2D video into .m3u8 formats
to be distributed on different handheld devices as well as HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)
• Built a notification system using AWS Cloudfront to distribute links to stream videos hosted on
AWS S3 buckets via text and email
• Responsible for integration and testing of new features in existing baseball and soccer training
simulations in VR/AR

Tandem AI

Mid-market and Enterprise companies use Tandem AI agents to forward deploy AI and run implementation at scale. Backed by Tribe capital and K5 global

Sayak

important brands < people behind those brands 

i run a marketing studio to help tech founders voice their authentic self, craft product narrative and build content moats.

Designing ai gtm, content & hiring engines with b2b startups. not taking any new clients right now!!

October

Built an AI tool for paralegals at law firms to manage high-skilled visa cases, petition writing, criteria mapping and RFE support drafting. Sold it to a boutique law firm.

Now building a B2C version of it.

Antler

- Built and launched two AI-native products: healthcare and legal
- Community-driven GTM through founder events, workshops, and AI hackathons in the Bay Area.
- Scaled the legal-tech platform to 100+ active users and sold it to a boutique law firm.

Built an AI health co-pilot for patients — personalized care recommendations powered by their own data: medical history, wearables, lifestyle inputs.

Grew it to 100+ users, got strong user pull, but hit the wall on institutional compliance. Realized the hard way that health hardware companies are better positioned to build AI layers on top of rich personal datasets.

Now, I’m the loudest voice in the room for health data interoperability.

Shadowed doctors, sat in on 5 hospital visits, listened to hours of patient calls.
If you’re working on AI + health, ping me — happy to share my research notes or MVP.

- Built and launched two AI-native products: healthcare and legal
- Community-driven GTM through founder events, workshops, and AI hackathons in the Bay Area.
- Scaled the legal-tech platform to 100+ active users and exited the product to a boutique law firm.

Aarki

RZR is the advertising arm of Skillz Inc. (NYSE: SKLZ) which connects mobile UA, retargeting, and CTV as one intelligence system. I was responsible for leading marketing and getting more EU gaming publishers plugging their supply inventory onto the platform.

- Took the brand on the road: ChinaJoy, PG Connects, MAU Vegas, meeting partners face-to-face long before "community-led growth" became a buzzword.
-  Built and managed a global team of five, creating the processes, playbooks, and operating rhythm that kept campaigns moving and partners happy at scale.

InMobi

- led a global team of marketing to rebrand Aarki
- Did ChinaJoy, G-Star Korea & PGConnect London
- 2x prospects pipeline

took a break after doing it for 8 years

InMobi Advertising

Category generation for passive smartphone surfaces in North America: Android Lock Screen and Home Screen

KRAs:
1. PMF validation & brand positioning
2. Telco & OEM partnerships GTM
3. Omnichannel product launch
4. PR & Sales enablement

Pine Labs

Countrywide launch for India's first 'Tap n Pay' app enabling small businesses, gig economy and last mile delivery force to accept card payments on their phones. #AbHarMobileCardMachine. The launch involved brand identity, positioning, GTM strategy, media partnerships and event-led launch campaign.

- Activation campaign for 'Pay Later' (retail, mid-market and enterprise merchants)
- Partner marketing with OEMs and banks to amplify POS discovery.
- Revamp merchant onboarding, training and in-store merchandising.
- Merchant ethno study and brand heath analysis during Covid-19

WeeMedia Africa

Led growth marketing initiatives & 360° digital marketing across 3 different media platforms: business, tech & lifestyle. Helped the company grow 4x under 10 months by successfully mapping reader journey to AAARR funnel and automating marketing function.

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited

Knowracle Publications

- Assisted Dr. Swati Mahajan, the author of 'The Contemporary Economics'.
- Wrote and edited 100+ articles for the book and got acknowledged for the same.

Optional — paste your OpenAI Org ID to get $200 in credits once approved (find it at platform.openai.com/orgid). Skip if you'd rather not.

Want $200 in OpenAI credits? Add your Org ID

Optional. Drop links to what you've built — projects, GitHub, demos, anything that shows your work.

What have you been building?

Yes — meals and refreshments are taken care of. Show up with your laptop, we'll handle the rest.

Is food provided?

Every attendee must register and be approved individually. If you're attending as a team, each team member must be approved. 

Can I bring my team?

Made for senior builders: SDE3s, Product Leads, Founders, and FDEs.

Who can attend?

How long is the event?

The exact venue will be revealed once your registration has been approved.

Where is the Buildathon happening ?

Hermes by Nous Research is the world's fastest-growing open-source AI agent, with 180,000 GitHub stars in under four months. It's the AI agent powering NVIDIA RTX AI PCs, and the platform you'll build with throughout the Buildathon.

What is Hermes?

Yes. The Buildathon is open to everyone. GrowthX membership is not required.

Can I apply if I'm not a GrowthX member?

Yes. The participation credits are available to every approved builder. Winners receive additional credits and prizes.

Do I get the credits even if I don't win?

Applications close in 72 hours or earlier if all seats are filled.

When do applications close?

Yes. If your application is not accepted, you'll receive a full refund. The registration fee is only meant to ensure high-intent participation and reduce no-shows, and GrowthX does not make any profit from it.

Will I get a refund if my application is rejected?

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OpenAI

Wispr Flow

ElevenLabs 

Cloudflare

Convex

Dodo Payments

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University of California, Berkeley - School of Law

Blockchain at Berkeley

Mercatus Center at George Mason University

Awarded a one-year fellowship (Entrepreneurship & Innovation track) in which fellows learn and apply market-oriented schools of political economy to policy analysis and academic research. Keen to apply this toolkit in research on decentralised governance and liability models for autonomous tech. 

https://www.mercatus.org/students/frederic-bastiat-fellowship

Fundabox

Member, Elder Council

KGEN is building the world's largest verified distribution protocol powered by Web3, driving UA, commerce, and loyalty ecosystems. As of March 2025, KGEN serves 21.7M+ consumers and boasts 4.9M+ monthly active users supported by 190+ revenue partnerships across Gaming, AI, and DeFi projects, and annualised revenue surpassing $26.5M.

Simpl

Building regulatory resilience across Simpl's product portfolio and business

Simpl is India’s leading 1-tap checkout network meant to make payments invisible and money intelligent.

Kaleidofin Private Limited

Scaled Kaleidofin's north India B2B2C business from 4 to 500 branches in 8 states. 

Started out in a generalist business owner role where I worked with inclusive finance organizations (microfinance institutions, cooperative banks and business correspondents) to drive adoption of Kaleidofin's unique goal-based savings, credit underwriting and digital payments offerings among 2 million+ women entrepreneur borrowers. I gained experience in partner acquisition and relationship management, growth strategy, project management, hiring and team building in addition to conceptualising and implementing customer and agent-centric process and experience improvements. 

Grew into product and revenue ownership for goal-based savings (KaleidoGoals) and digital transformation for inclusive lenders (KaleidoPay).

Skillz

- Executed equity offerings (initial public offerings and qualified institutions placements) aggregating to ~US$2 billion in the financial services and technology sectors including the first Indian IPO by a mutual fund asset manager
- Assisted in mergers and acquisitions aggregating to ~US$24 billion including the merger of Vodafone India and Idea Cellular
- Advised on general corporate and securities law matters including pro bono advice for a global micro-lending platform

Supreme Court of India

SEBI

Authored a research paper on tippee liability in insider trading under U.S. and Indian law

Food and drinks are on a cash-and-carry basis, feel free to order what you like

Will food be provided?

Yes! You’re welcome to invite a +1 - a friend, colleague, or someone who’ll genuinely benefit. Just make sure they register through your invite link.

San Francisco

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Coffee & stroll through Golden Gate Park