Ritwik Pavan

Ritwik Pavan is an accomplished entrepreneur and investor with a diverse background in technology and startup development. Currently serving as COO at Fragile since January 2024, Ritwik focuses on transforming one-off hardware purchases into recurring revenue streams backed by Khosla Ventures. Additionally, Ritwik has been active as an angel investor in various early-stage startups since May 2022, including FlowFi, Juna, and WeStrive. Previously, Ritwik founded and served as CEO of Krava, where innovative Lego-like modules for backyard ADUs were developed until the company's acquisition by Lada Cube in November 2023. As co-founder of VADE Group from December 2017 to September 2022, Ritwik introduced patented solar-powered cameras that utilized computer vision for real-time street parking data collection. Ritwik also founded Linker Logic Technologies at the age of 15, creating a successful software design and development agency. Ritwik holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.