Aryan Vedhara

I'm Aryan, a 16-year-old founder and CEO of The Aspire Project, where we build AI-powered financial education tools and deliver financial literacy programmes to less privileged students. What started with three co-founders is now a 20+ person team backed by advisors including the former CEO of HSBC.

I've interned at Northzone working across edtech and fintech deals, and at Coremont LLP, a Brevan Howard spin-out, where I modelled derivatives and stress-tested trading strategies. I host Building Resilient Futures, a podcast with 20,000+ listeners featuring founders and investors on careers and resilience. I closed the London Stock Exchange after consulting on ShareSoc's Investing Basics programme.

Ask me about building companies as a teenager, financial education and AI, venture capital and hedge funds, and the gap between education and industry.