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Lavish Saluja

Lavish Saluja

Founder & CEO of Soma Insurance

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San Francisco, California, United States
Joined August 2024
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Summary

Founder and CEO of Soma, building an AI-native commercial insurance brokerage focused on delivering smarter insurance solutions for businesses since 2025. tracxn+2
Product and engineering leader with hands-on experience at CRED (May 2020–May 2024), where I built and grew payments and credit products; also active in AI engineering with practical wins such as the AI Agents Hackathon 2024. peerlist+3
Technical and research foundation from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, with work on Lidar, sensor fusion, and simulation theory; built projects like Safemaps (a women’s-safety mapping app) and co-authored research on zero-knowledge proofs. peerlist+2

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Zero Knowledge Proof based authentication protocol using graph isomorphism

November 1, 2019

An academic paper proposing a Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) algorithm based on isomorphic graphs for secure authentication systems, minimizing direct information exchange between claimant and verifier.

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Feb 21, 2026

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Dec 24, 2025