Apurv Mishra

Apurv Mishra is a TED Fellow, AI technologist, inventor, and entrepreneur with more than sixteen years of experience designing and deploying machine-learning systems across healthcare, finance, and data-protection—three of the world’s most tightly governed domains. A World Economic Forum advisor and Scientific American executive committee member, he works at the frontier of artificial intelligence, cryptography, and human systems, creating technologies that learn responsibly and protect human agency. As Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Yield.xyz, Apurv is developing agentic financial infrastructure that powers yield automation for digital banks and custodians managing over US $500 billion—building a new foundation of programmable trust for global finance. At NtelCare, where he serves as Advisor and Chief Scientist, he applies AI and radar sensing to eldercare. His predictive models detect falls and health risks before they occur, giving caregivers foresight instead of hindsight and turning monitoring into proactive, compassionate care. Earlier, as CTO of doc.ai (acquired by Sharecare), Apurv co-led Anthem’s US $100 million AI-health initiative and helped design one of the first privacy-first healthcare-AI platforms. His work earned a U.S. patent for non-contact physiological measurement—an early milestone in clinically explainable and privacy-aligned machine learning. Beyond product innovation, Apurv has helped shape global technology policy and foresight. He has advised the World Economic Forum, the Parliament of Japan, and the UAE Government on emerging technologies and data governance. As part of the WEF Global Agenda Council on AI & Robotics and Scientific American’s Emerging Technologies Steering Committee, he co-authored the widely cited Top 10 Emerging Technologies reports—bridging frontier science with international policy. His earlier ventures include Omni, a multichain wallet platform acquired by Paxful, and PortalX, a Draper-backed cryptographic data collaboration network. A graduate of the University of Cambridge’s Department of Engineering, Apurv earned his MPhil in Technology Policy, conducting research with Microsoft Research on data marketplaces and with ARM Ltd. on infrastructure optimization. He later consulted for Jaguar Land Rover and PCH Innovations on connected-vehicle intelligence. His journey began at fourteen, when his grandfather’s paralysis inspired him to invent the Glabenator—a wearable interface that let paralyzed users communicate through muscle signals. The invention won the Intel ISEF Grand Award, the President of India’s National Technology Award, and took him to the Nobel Prize Ceremonies as a Seaborg Fellow of the Nobel Foundation.