Kshitij Marwaha
Entrepreneur. Scaling Businesses. Crafting Products. Deep Technology. AI XR | Tesseract | MIT Harvard IIT.
Deep-tech entrepreneur across AI and XR. Founder and CEO of Tesseract, an MIT Media Lab spin-off that became India's largest XR + AI company, acquired by Reliance Industries in 2019 and fully merged into Reliance Intelligence in 2025. MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35 (TR35) and Forbes 30 Under 30. MIT and Harvard researcher. Featured in TED, MIT Technology Review, WIRED, TechCrunch and The Information.
Impact
- 2 acquisition exits, including to a Fortune 100 company
- Triple digit revenue growth
- Millions of users reached
- 10+ products launched
- 0 to 500+ organisation scale
- 25+ papers and patents
Awards and Recognition
- MIT Technology Review TR35, 2017
- Forbes 30 Under 30, 2018
- NASSCOM Design4India Winner, Immersive Category, 2018
- NASSCOM Emerge 50 League of 10, 2018
- TechCrunch / TechNode Asia Hardware Battlefield Gold, 2018
- TED Talks India - Nayi Baat, 2019
Journey
- 2016-2025: CEO and Founder, Tesseract — MIT spin-off, India's largest XR + AI company, acquired by Reliance in 2019, fully merged in 2025 into Reliance Intelligence.
- 2013-2016: Head, MIT Media Lab India Initiative — biggest MIT program outside the US, 1000+ community, 100+ innovations, 5+ spin-offs.
- 2011-2015: MS, MIT Media Lab — deep learning over 4D light field tensor data, 2 ACM SIGGRAPH papers.
- 2010-2011: Research Scientist, Stanford University / Harvard Medical School — AI and deep learning over biomedical data.
- 2009-2010: Visiting Research Scientist, Harvard-MIT HST / MIT CSAIL — distributed computing for cross-language communication.
Key Products
- Physical and Spatial AI Platform, 2025 — AI-native platform for physical and spatial intelligence with multimodal LLM, LAM and VLA models.
- Voice and Agentic AI Platform, 2025 — voice-first agentic AI with real-time multi-agent orchestration.
- JioFrames, 2026 — lightweight AI-native smart glasses with mobile app and AI cloud platform.
- Enterprise AI Assistant, 2024 — AI assistant across phones and wearables for on-the-job guidance and training.
- JioDive and JioImmerse Platform, 2023 — affordable smartphone-based VR headset.
- 360° VR Streaming Platform, 2023 — cloud-native live 360° streaming, powered IPL broadcasts.
- JioGlass and JioImmerse Platform, 2022 — India's first consumer mixed-reality glasses and platform.
- Holoboard, 2018 — world's first smartphone-based MR headset, using curved lenses and new material coating with cameras for spatial tracking.
- Quark 360 Camera and Presence Platform, 2017.
- Methane 360 VR Camera, 2016 — India's first 360° VR camera and platform for immersive views and walkthroughs of homes, hotels and tourist spots; Made in India hardware with on-device privacy processing.
- Medical Ontology AI Platform, 2011, Platform — context-sensitive ontology alignment connecting biomedical concepts using clinical and research data across billions of data points for decision support.
Talks
Research
Select publications and patents on AI, XR, light fields, design education and bioinformatics, including an MIT master's thesis on tensor photography, two ACM SIGGRAPH papers on compressive light field photography, a US patent on light field photography and multiple WIPO PCT patents on 360/VR capture, mixed reality viewing, head-mounted audio and input device interaction.
Contact
Email: ksm@alum.mit.edu. LinkedIn. X.
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