Pragyan Priyadarshani

Most technology leaders build for scale – I build for people first, and scale follows. I started at 19, writing a speech-to-text program in Matlab and selling the IP before I had a job title. That instinct to create something from nothing and put it in someone's hands has never left me. Eighteen years and four ventures later, I'm the founding member and CPTO of Styli, where I took a blank page inside one of the Middle East's largest retail groups and turned it into a platform serving 30M+ monthly active users across 6 countries. What I'm most proud of isn't the architecture or the metrics, it's the engineers, PMs, and analysts I've worked alongside who are now heading teams of their own. I use technology to build businesses, not the other way around. I've launched marketplaces, deployed AI at scale, filed patents, and presented to Group boards, but the thread running through all of it is a belief that the best technology decisions start with a deep understanding of the human and commercial problem you're actually trying to solve. I invest in early-stage founders because I know what it feels like to build without a safety net. I advocate for women in technology and neurodiversity because the industry is measurably better when it's built by everyone and the most creative solutions come from the most diverse minds. And I champion AI adoption not as a trend to follow, but as the most significant opportunity of our generation to reimagine how people work and create.