Tejas Sudarshan got about 90 seconds with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on a Chennai Metro ride on 11 October. The Tejas Sudarshan pitch has since travelled far beyond that metro coach. He used them to pitch two artificial intelligence ideas. Sudarshan is the founder of Winsen Labs, a startup that works on applied artificial intelligence.
Tejas Parthasarathi Sudarshan was among 17 startup founders selected to interact with Modi during the Prime Minister’s Chennai visit. The founders discussed how their work could help solve real-world problems.
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What He Proposed
His first idea was to connect students with real-world AI applications. He suggested that government departments work with universities and hand students practical problems. That way students can use their knowledge on live administrative challenges.
The second idea was a single AI-powered service desk for government services. Under the proposal, people would submit requests and upload documents just once.
An AI agent would then track each request and route it to the correct department. That could cut the need for citizens to visit several offices or follow separate processes for one task.
Both ideas are proposals. Neither has been announced as a government initiative.
Who Is Tejas Sudarshan
Tejas Sudarshan is an entrepreneur working in applied AI. He founded Winsen Labs in March 2026. Before that he worked at KPMG India, where he joined as an assistant manager in February 2023.
He also founded Fanpit, an events and community platform that he started in January 2025. The platform is used by people to organise shows, open mics and community events.
His public profile also lists an advisory role at FincorpX, which he took up in February 2025 alongside Fanpit.
One detail he shared himself goes back further. In 2017, during his school’s pupil leader elections, he proposed using Google Classroom to improve learning. Nearly nine years later, he was discussing how students could use AI to solve practical problems with the Prime Minister.
Why The Pitch Stood Out
A metro ride gives each founder a few minutes at most. Ninety seconds is enough for one clear idea, not two. Sudarshan used the time on two proposals that share one thread. Both use AI to remove friction, one for students and one for citizens.
The second idea in particular maps onto a problem most people recognise. Government services in India are spread across departments, and each one tends to require its own submission and its own follow-up.
Whether either proposal moves forward is a separate question. Policy ideas of this kind usually need a department to sponsor them. They also need a pilot to prove them and a budget line to scale them.
What Happens Next
Sudarshan has not said that either proposal has received a formal response. The interaction itself is the part that has travelled, since founder access to the Prime Minister at this level is rare.
For Winsen Labs, the attention comes early. The company was founded this year and works on applied AI. That puts it in a crowded field where distribution matters as much as the technology.
The wider signal is that student skilling and citizen service delivery are both live themes in the government’s AI conversations. Founders with a specific proposal in either area now have a clearer sense of where the door is.