Layak Singh

Layak Singh I build for markets that software has mostly walked past.

I have been starting companies since I was at IIT Kharagpur. The last one, Artivatic.ai, was an AI platform for insurance and health; it was acquired by RenewBuy in February 2022 and I still advise the leadership team. Before that there were dating and education products, one of which, DateIITians, is where the matching engine that became Artivatic started life.

What I am building now is DharmikVibes, a devotional technology group in Gurugram: the software underneath how India actually practises, from darshan and puja to pandits, pilgrimage and daily reading. Several hundred million people organise their year around this, and almost none of it has ever been built properly.

Layak Singh, seated in front of a bookcase, wearing a dark jacket over an open-collar shirt.

Nineteen years, six companies, one exit

Computed from the dates, not drawn by hand. The gaps are as real as the bars: dateIITians closed in 2013, Cogxio did not start until 2015, and there is a year between Cogxio closing and Artivatic beginning. The dotted lane below Artivatic is what happened to the acquirer afterwards, shown as context rather than as work of mine.
Layak Singh's ventures, 2007 to now A horizontal timeline. DharmikVibes, Cofounder. The company was incorporated in 2024, 2026 to now. RODIC Consultants, AI, product and strategy advisor, 2026 to now. Artivatic.ai, Founder and chief executive, 2018 to 2022. Cogxio, Founder. Closed in 2016, 2015 to 2016. LiveOnGo, Founder. Ran alongside Cogxio, 2015 to 2016. dateIITians, Founder. Relaunched 2016, 2012 to 2013. iwanttutor, eStudyCorner, Founder, under Fullerene Solutions, 2011 to 2012. Edudigm, Entrepreneur in residence, Kolkata, during college, 2010 to 2010. Rakins, LivingStylish, Lifestyle and news magazine, started at Kharagpur, 2009 to 2011. Fullerene Solutions, Research writing. The first business, and the entity the education products ran under, 2009 to 2011. IIT Kharagpur, B.Tech, Manufacturing Science and Engineering (Mechanical Engineering), 2007 to 2011. Below Artivatic, a separate lane shows what happened to the acquirer after the February 2022 sale, which is RenewBuy's corporate history rather than his own work. The same information is written out below. 2007 2011 2014 2018 2022 2024 2027 now DharmikVibes RODIC Consultants Artivatic.ai RenewBuy group Cogxio LiveOnGo dateIITians iwanttutor, eStudyCorner Edudigm Rakins, LivingStylish Fullerene Solutions IIT Kharagpur Kharagpur Education Consumer Insurance, health and AI Devotion

Acquired by RenewBuy, February 2022 Confirmed dates Approximate dates Advising, not building The acquirer afterwards, as context The company before I joined it Just begun, too recent to draw as a span

What I am building

Six products on one spine: one identity, one catalogue, one ledger.

DIVVIB Lifestyle Private Limited, incorporated in Gurugram in 2024. The apps are the visible tenth of it. The rest is verifying pandits, mapping temples and their rules, and settling money to thousands of small partners on time.

The company and the market

  • DharmikVibes The devotee app
  • DivineAI A voice-first companion
  • DharmikGuide The partner side
  • Gita Sadhana Daily practice
  • Dharmik Darshan Temple darshan
  • Dharmik Stays A bed near the temple
  • Dharmik Travel Getting there
  • DharmikStore Commerce

Writing

Mostly AI and agents, infrastructure, India, and what running a company here is actually like.

Everything I have written

Reach me

hi@layaksingh.com

I read everything that is addressed to a person rather than to a list. Investors, journalists, temples and travel operators, and companies looking for an advisor are all on the contact page.