Bhargav Sri Prakash Biography 
Bhargav Sri Prakash is an entrepreneur, investor, inventor and engineer based in Silicon Valley. He is the son of renowned and veteran architect Sheila Sri Prakash, an architect and urban designer and the first female architect in India to have started and operated her own architectural practice. She started Shilpa Architects, an architecture firm started by a woman for the first time in India. Prakash has worked in gamification, and he invented the first digital vaccine. He is a former tennis player who was a junior national champion.
Bhargav Sri Prakash was born on 20 April 1977 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. In the 1990s, he was quite engaged in the field of sports, especially tennis, where he played junior tennis till national level. He also remained a junior national champion in the 1990s. 761 was his career best ranking. He enrolled in the Birla Institute of Technology and Science but dropped out in his first semester, because he found it uncomfortable practising tennis in the campus, due to bad equipment. He later graduated in Mechanical Engineering and also completed his Master’s in Automotive Engineering.
As an entrepreneur, he started his first company, CADcorporation at a young age during his academic years at University of Michigan, where he was a research fellow. He sold the company and then founded Vmerse in 2005. In 2008 he started asset management company – Nirmana Investments, and sold his previous company. Most recently in 2017, he published one book - An Exploratory Analysis of Game Telemetry from a Pediatric mHealth Intervention, which he co-authored with another author. He is the founder and CEO of FriendsLearn, and Chief of Product for Fooya, a mobile app.
Published: October 16, 2018
Updated: October 16, 2018
