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Rishab Veldur

Rishab Veldur

Founder & engineer building wearable medtech for dialysis patients.

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Chicago, Illinois
Joined October 2025
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Medtech founder focused on dialysis access — Rishab leads Auvi, which is developing a non‑invasive wearable to continuously monitor AV fistulas and detect access failure early. The project has progressed from student team to an early startup, earning prizes and investment in university entrepreneurship competitions and listing clinical/market rationale (salvage rates and costs) in public descriptions. auvilabs+2
Early inventor and hands‑on builder — in high school Rishab co‑invented Quic‑Cric (a portable cricothyrotomy device) and won the High School Division at the 2019 K‑12 InVenture Prize, demonstrating long‑standing interest in biomedical device design and rapid prototyping. gatech+1
Software and systems engineering experience across industry and aerospace — public professional entries list internships and roles at United Launch Alliance (flight software), State Farm (enterprise software roles and internships), and several early startups, indicating strengths spanning embedded/hardware work (medtech/hardware at Auvi) to enterprise software engineering. linkedin+2
Campus entrepreneurship and cross‑disciplinary teamwork — while at UIUC Rishab participated in interdisciplinary teams and entrepreneurship competitions (e.g., Cozad New Venture Challenge / CI MED track), moving a student project toward early startup formation and external funding/awards. illinois+1

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Entrepreneurship, product engineering, and medtech innovation (frequent posts about startup progress and competitions). x+1

Notes

AWAbhigya Wangoosaid
RVRishab Veldur
is one of the most technically impressive founders they've seen working in construction or manufacturing.

Dec 12, 2025