A co-founder of social change.

Six years ago, as the first wave of the pandemic broke over India and the country grappled with a humanitarian crisis at a scale no one was prepared for, a small group of people decided not to wait.

Operators, venture capitalists, tech entrepreneurs and social-impact leaders organised themselves into a collective with a single, urgent purpose: to support the public healthcare system in any way they could. They named it ACT — the Action COVID Taskforce — and got to work pooling capital, networks and operating muscle into a coordinated, founder-led response.

Across the first and second waves, the taskforce used live data and on-the-ground signal to find the gaps that needed filling fastest. It deployed oxygen concentrators where supply chains had broken, pioneered tele-ICU services that extended scarce critical-care capacity, supported vaccination rollouts and stood up mental-health counselling for frontline workers and the public alike.

The first years of that work taught us something simple but powerful: collective action, paired with a bias for action, can move mountains. That conviction gave us the confidence to widen the lens — from a single crisis response to a permanent platform working on the structural problems that India will be solving for the next decade.

Today, ACT runs as a long-term venture-philanthropy platform across four focus areas — Education, Environment, Health and Women — seeding the tech-led innovations that can address India's hardest social problems at scale, and convening the founders, funders and government partners who can take them there.