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Product Details
Entrepreneur Background
Pulkit Ahuja (Co-founder & CEO) describes himself as an entrepreneur, author, and inventor the brand custodian and visionary who conceived the "human proxy" concept, evolved it into the industrial smart helmet platform post-Shark Tank, and has driven Proxgy's transformation from a pandemic-era consumer app to a ₹400 crore deep-tech safety company. Inderjit Singh Makkar (Co-founder) is the operational and investor-facing co-founder he is described in the pitch as Pulkit's "investor partner," suggesting that Inderjit brought both commercial investment and operational partnership to the founding.
The Product / Service
Proxgy (pronounced "proxy") pitched as a live human avatar platform a service that allowed users to book a trained human proxy (a "Proxgy") equipped with an IoT-enabled smart helmet featuring a stereoscopic 3D camera, 360-degree viewing, and live two-way communication, who would physically go to any location on behalf of the user and transmit a live, immersive experience enabling virtual shopping, virtual travel, virtual property tours, virtual event attendance, and virtual business visits from anywhere in the world.