wsp, i'm devesh khilnani(17, m)
now:
- xyla - food for the next manifest destinyHuman progress has always been defined by food. The moment we learned to grow crops instead of chase animals we developed surplus, specialization, cities, technology, and expansion. Every frontier (continental, industrial, digital, and now extraterrestrial) has been gated by the food revolution that enabled it. As we push into harsher environments, off-grid industries, and off-world settlements, biology becomes the limiting factor again. The next chapter of human expansion needs an Agriculture 4.0, a new way to grow independent of environment, location, and infrastructure. Xyla is the foundation of the next manifest destiny.
- v11 - backing sci-fi
- ases nyc - startup nights
- fr8 - global hacker house cult
- tkd - paid to beat up kids competitively
origin story:
- got lost in an indian airport → built ar/vr nav startup
- moved to hardware → raised $500k → built a bme lab
- recruited at 16 for artemis III nasa murep ag team
- wrote my own proposal → nasa funded it → kept IP + left to build faster
- turned down $15m+ of equity to build my own things
- now: building portable + off-grid farms that deploy in < 10 mins
working assumptions
- the future of engineering looks a lot like the past billion years of evolution
- innovation outpaces mortal instincts
- food is the foundation layer of civilization
contact:
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devesh@xyla.space
vivitur ingenio, caeteris mortis erunt.