Editorial bio
Manish Agarwal spent the last decade running one of India's biggest consumer-tech companies and is now building for the next wave of AI. As CEO of Nazara Technologies he took the gaming business through its IPO – India's first listed gaming company – after an earlier run as CEO of Reliance Games / Reliance Entertainment Digital. He's an IIM Ahmedabad and NIT Warangal alum with a long track record of scaling consumer and digital-entertainment businesses in India.
His current bet is Humyn Labs, which he co-founded with Ishank Gupta: a research and multimodal-data engine for Physical AI, collecting egocentric video, multilingual audio and human-activity data from verified contributors to train robots and world models. He's also co-founder and board member at GDAI / KGeN, the verified-human network sitting underneath. His thesis is simple: Physical AI has no internet to scrape, so somebody has to build the human-intelligence layer the models need.
Worth following if you want to see what the data side of robotics and world models looks like from India – real infrastructure, not demos.
Key facts
- based in
- Bengaluru, India
- current
- Co-Founder, Humyn Labs · Co-Founder & Board Member, GDAI / KGeN
- prior
- CEO, Nazara Technologies (through IPO – India's first listed gaming company) · CEO, Reliance Games / Reliance Entertainment Digital
- education
- IIM Ahmedabad · NIT Warangal
- focus
- Physical AI · human-data infrastructure · multimodal datasets · gaming and consumer tech
Interviews
Interview with Manish Agarwal and Ishank Gupta
Watch on YouTube
Featured work
Humyn Labs
Research and multimodal data engine for Physical AI – egocentric video, multilingual audio and human-activity data for robotics and world models.
GDAI / KGeN
Verified-human network / distribution protocol feeding the Physical AI data stack.
Nazara Technologies
Led the company through its IPO as India's first listed gaming company; scaled it significantly.