Aryan Vedhara
I'm 17 and based in London. I started my first company at 12, and I've been building things ever since: a podcast, two research papers, a newsletter with 4,000+ readers, and now a fintech company of my own.
Aspire
An AI-enabled platform that brings together wealth, financial planning and career coaching for young people. It connects what they earn, own and owe with where they want to go, and turns it into the next step.
Two entities, Aspire Learning Technologies Ltd and Aspire CIC. Backed by angels including former ClearScore executives and exited founders, with a strategic partnership with the London Stock Exchange Group. Advised by senior figures from HSBC, Barclays, the National Wealth Fund and The Times, and endorsed by John Flint, former Group CEO of HSBC.
Everything else
Long conversations about careers that didn't go in a straight line, with Forbes 30 Under 30 founders, S&P CEOs, investors and a Michelin-starred chef. Over 500k reach. I ran everything from guest bookings and partnerships to production and growth.
Listen ↗Co-founded with Nikhil Raizada when we were 12. Our app, then GoGreen, made climate action a little more competitive through gamification. It passed 10,000 downloads within 3 months and took us to Cheltenham Literature Festival and the 2023 Commonwealth Climate Conference.
Summer analyst at Coremont, working with the quant analytics and software engineering teams and supporting the CEO on strategy. October analyst at Northzone in Amsterdam, researching defence and logistics tech alongside fintech & edtech. Youngest member of the AFIS advisory board. Consultant and writer at ShareSoc, where I worked on the Investing Basics launch and was invited to close the market at the London Stock Exchange.
Full history on LinkedIn ↗The Death of the Linear Career: a 10,000-word paper submitted for peer review, built on interviews with executives at Barclays, HM Treasury and HSBC, with input from academics at LSE, Harvard and UC Berkeley. A 4,000-word paper on how political instability affects equity-derivative hedge fund strategies, modelled in Python, with contributing interviews from traders and quants from Brevan Howard, Coremont and more.
Featured in, quoted by or written for The Times, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, Forbes, the Financial Times, Eastern Eye and Investing Insiders. Spoke at Cheltenham Literature Festival and the 2023 Commonwealth Climate Conference. TEDx host and youngest winner of the Lindon Speaking Cup.
Eastern Eye article ↗
1st XI cricket, 1st XV rugby, drums. I speak Hindi and French.