Currently building across science + product

Build useful things at the edge of science, learning & possibility.

I am Gunda Upendar Rao — a pharmaceutical-science-trained founder building products across drug discovery, pharmaceutical decision intelligence, educational games, and frontier science.

Hyderabad, IndiaPharmaceutical scienceFounder-led softwareScientific AI
Current companies

The companies receiving my deepest focus now.

Current work is highlighted first without erasing the ventures that came before it. My present focus spans autonomous therapeutics R&D, pharmaceutical decision intelligence, self-directed learning, and frontier-science exploration.

Founder · 2026—Present

BayesPharma Labs

An India-first therapeutics R&D company building toward AI- and robotics-driven novel drug discovery through tighter Design → Make → Test → Learn loops.

  • Drug discovery
  • Scientific AI
  • Robotics
  • Closed-loop DMTA
  • Evidence governance
Founder · 2026—Present

BayesPharma

Science-first decision intelligence for pharmaceutical development, connecting models, evidence, uncertainty, governance, and next actions.

  • PK/PD
  • PBPK
  • PopPK
  • MIDD
  • Regulatory intelligence
Founder · 2025—Present

LearnPlay

A self-directed, game-based learning platform where children play, create, publish, and learn by building.

  • Educational games
  • Creator tools
  • Self-learning
  • Kid-safe design
Founder · Unified venture

KalpanaSpace

The unified home for astronomy, mission simulations, satellite concepts, space AI, exploration, and frontier-science learning.

  • Space AI
  • Astronomy
  • Mission simulation
  • Satellite concepts
Complete founder portfolio

Every founded and co-founded company stays visible.

Earlier ventures are not discarded. They show the sequence of problems, lessons, risks, and convictions that produced the current work.

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Founder journey

Each company changed the next question.

2019—2022

Yocto Care Technologies LLP

Early healthcare technology, operations, and practical founder execution.

2022—2023

DawaiSafe and SEMwell

Medicine safety, pharmaceutical trust, and healthcare-focused company building.

2022—2025

NextDNA, CuriousAtoms, EdGamers, and STEMspire

Scientific parks, playful STEM, educational games, story worlds, experiments, and self-directed learning.

2025—Present

LearnPlay, KalpanaSpace, Aliens Discovery, and Techno Optimist Manifesto

Creator-first learning, unified frontier-science work, astrobiology exploration, and a public movement for technological optimism.

2026—Present

BayesPharma Labs + BayesPharma

Autonomous drug-discovery R&D and pharmaceutical evidence-to-decision software: one focused on generating better therapeutic evidence, the other on connecting models, development and scientific decisions.

About

A pharmacist by training. A builder by instinct.

My work sits between deep science and product execution.

I trained in pharmaceutical sciences at University College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kakatiya University, and later at NIPER Mohali. My work has moved across pharmaceutical intelligence, research, healthcare ventures, education, games, scientific software and founder-led technology. That combination lets me move between mechanisms, models, interfaces and business questions without treating them as separate worlds.

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B.Pharm · University College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kakatiya UniversityFoundational training in pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences.
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MS (Pharm) · NIPER MohaliAdvanced pharmaceutical-science training, 2010—2012.
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Founder across pharma, healthcare, learning, games and frontier scienceBuilding products that make difficult knowledge actionable.
Contact

Let’s build something that deserves to exist.

Open to serious conversations around pharmaceutical R&D, autonomous drug discovery, scientific software, educational games, healthcare, frontier-science products, partnerships, and founder collaboration.