WTF is with Nikhil Kamath We Backed 17 of India's Brightest Young Founders with ₹20L Grants | WTFund Cohort 3
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Jan 30, 2026 Guest
PlaceStation (Founder: Sahil)
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Astraeus Innovus (Founder: Dr. Jayanti)
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Prava / Brava Payments (Founders: Sushant & Shubham)
Sahil of PlaceStation builds compact desktop PCB pick-and-place machines for faster hardware prototyping. Dr. Jayanti of Astraeus Innovus develops OncoAlat, a needleless saliva screen for low-cost oral cancer detection. Sushant and Shubham of Prava / Brava Payments are building a payments stack that lets AI agents make payments across PSPs. The conversation jumps between tech, fast iteration, and scalable health and payments solutions.
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Enable Seamless Payments For AI Agents
- Integrate a payments layer so AI agents can complete purchases without redirecting users to merchants.
- Build PSP-agnostic infrastructure that connects assistants to any merchant gateway to preserve user experience.
Rural Internship Sparked Oral-Cancer Test
- Dr. Jayanti developed a needleless saliva-based oral cancer screen after rural internship seeing low-quality visual screening.
- She designed it to work without labs, electricity, or trained staff to scale population-level screening.
Software Scales Diagnostics Faster Than Kits
- Digitizing pathology slides plus real-time AI reduces dependence on scarce pathologists and speeds diagnosis.
- Software distribution scales easier than physical kit distribution, enabling broader reach.