Professional Role

Projects

Strange Brew
01/09/2003 – present
Strange Brew started as a national print magazine, and has since pivoted to a media company that uses technology to enable journalism and content creation.

140verses
06/01/2010 – present
140verses is a machine that makes 4 line poems out of random tweets.

The INK conference in association with TED
02/01/2008 – present
Created the INK fellows program, conceptualized and built inktalks.com where we host talks online, and let users share their work with us, building a community around innovation. Continued involvement as an advisor, fellows selector and evangelist.
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approves.it
01/01/2012 – present
approves.it is an augmented reality mobile app that aims to put a layer of data over real world objects. Its like a Facebook like button for the real world.
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Biography

Nikhil Velpanur is working on approves.it, a augmented reality mobile app that lets you add virtual data to real world objects. Earlier, he started and was responsible for the INK fellows program and inktalks.com, as part of the INK conference in association with TED. He has been an entrepreneur since he was 20. His first company - Strange Brew Media was a national print magazine in India and has transitioned into a rural newswire. He also started letshead.to, a marketplace for food and drink in 2007, and 140verses.com which takes random tweets and generates 4 line poems out of it.

Fun facts

Favorite meal:
Anything with tomatoes in it.