Varun Sharma
Co-Founder and Chief Metaverse Officer
Metaphy Labs
Bio:
Varun is a 24-year-old entrepreneur and philanthropist with the vision of Changing the world by revolutionizing technology and spreading kindness along the way.
He helps a lot of companies combat their business challenges as an advisor and also part-owns multiple Indian as well as US-based startups.
Since 2019, Varun’s efforts have saved hundreds of lives and impacted thousands.
He began contributing towards humanity and practicing philanthropy when he was only 20.
Now 24, Varun was recognized at Humanitarian Awards 2021 at GMHA, in association with Mental Health Change, UK, and United Nations for his contribution towards humanity and philanthropic efforts.
An AI Evangelist, fuelled by his love for Tech, Varun holds a Computer Science degree from the Amity School of Engineering (Class of 2019).
He joined Newgen Software Technologies as a Python and an AI Developer in 2019 while still being in the final year of his college.
Post that, Business and Finance being his utmost passion, Varun ventured into the world of startups starting with a Techno-Fitness brand. With a zeal to learn and grow, he started off by handling all of the operations himself.
From tech to marketing to operations, he single-handedly turned it into a profit-making business. Subsequently, Varun has been involved with multiple start-ups. In 2020, He joined a D2C based social application-based company as a stakeholder.
He also joined a SaAs based company as a co-founder; responsible for devising Profit making Business strategies along with bootstrapping the product.
In 2021, He joined in as a co-founder in an Ed-Tech company based around Denver, United States; where they plan to use cognitive thinking and psychological spacing effect to curate an enhanced learning system automatically generated according to each user’s need.
Currently exploring Web3, Varun is keenly interested in the whole ecosystem of NFT’s and cryptocurrencies. He firmly believes that metaverse is indeed the future and is these days scoping out the infinite possibilities it has to offer.
He is also involved in multiple Web3 related projects backed by big names like Ozzy Osbourne, Garyvee, and Colin Tilley.
Currently, Varun is a co-founder and Chief Metaverse Officer at Metaphy Labs Pvt Ltd(Acquired by JetSynthesys) and an investor and Non-Executive Director at Memboro An avid investor by choice, Varun is also actively exploring and participating in the field of Angel Investing to promote and democratize startup culture.
Talk Title:
Metaverse and the Democratization of Deep Tech
Talk Description:
The discussion would loop the audience through the concepts of Metaverse, the start, the technology and the current state of Metaverses.
I would additionally touch base on how in the current state of metaverse, it is a luxury, not truly accessible to SMEs, and budding businesses.
I would also like to speak a few words on WHAT would actually democratise Metaverse as a Deep Tech, and HOW does the future look like.