Unreasonable Fellows
Rahul Panicker
Co-founder at Embrace
Rahul is an Unreasonable Fellow. Rahul was part of Girl Effect Accelerator 2014.
Rahul Alex Panicker is an entrepreneur, best known as President and Co-founder of Embrace Innovations[1] and Embrace, a social enterprise startup that aims to help premature and low-birth-weight babies, through a low-cost infant warmer.[2][3]
Until early 2016, Panicker served as the President of Embrace Innovations, a social enterprise that designs and brings to market healthcare technologies for the developing world, starting with an infant warmer. The Embrace infant warmer costs less than 1% of a traditional incubator, and is currently being distributed across clinics in India, and over 15 developing countries.[4][5][6] He is also a member of the FICCI Health Innovation Task Force in India.[7] Starting 2016, he has been engaged in exploring and speaking about the potential impact of AI and what societies can do to prepare for the future, including at TEDx IIT Kharagpur.