The best work has the slowest scoreboard.
Give a team a live score and the score becomes the roadmap.
Gabriel Ravindran
Operator, founder & angel investor.
Singapore
A little about me
Operating. I spent five years as COO of Aevo, a decentralised derivatives exchange where we raised $20M and reached $100B+ in lifetime trading volume.
Manufacturing. I co-founded Allure Laboratories in 2017. We make personal-care and household products for some of Southeast Asia’s largest natural and organic retailers. Before Allure, I co-founded Bacoff, a household-care brand that reached 2,000 stores across Asia.
Industrial AI. At FireVisor, I sold visual-inspection AI into semiconductor and solar fabs across five continents. I stayed involved from the first meeting until the system was running on the production line.
Investing. I’ve invested in 20+ startups across crypto, AI and robotics.
These days. Thinking about robotics, industrial AI and the infrastructure behind AI. Always happy to compare notes with people building in these areas.
Projects
Allure ERP. An ERP I’m building from scratch for Allure’s production, inventory, orders and finance. I plan to open-source it.
Lumen & Watt. Research terminals I built to study AI infrastructure: photonics, optical interconnects and data-centre power supply chains.
Interests
Systems. I like figuring out how complex systems fit together—from twenty ingredients in one product to the traders, market makers and incentives on an exchange.
Poker. I used to grind eight online tables at once before poker’s Black Friday. Still love the game.
A couple of things I believe
The obvious thing is usually still available.
“Someone must be doing it” is how it stays undone.
Every field is smaller than its conference suggests.