Cellvara
Cellvara
Founding Team

Building the intelligence layer between AI opportunity and implementation.

Cellvara is being built by AI engineers and a biotech scientist โ€” applied AI, product development and venture building on one side, real laboratory R&D on the other.

Chirag Natesh Vijay

Chirag Natesh Vijay

Co-Founder & CEO ยท Technology, Strategy & Fundraising

AI engineer and entrepreneur focused on building applied AI systems and translating emerging AI capabilities into products that solve real operational problems.

TechnologyAI StrategyDecision IntelligenceFundraising
Background

Chirag Natesh Vijay

  • AI Engineer at Hilti
  • Applied AI and machine learning experience at Bosch
  • M.Sc. Computer Science, University of Passau
  • M.Sc. International Entrepreneurship, Digitalization & Sustainability, HNU
  • Experience across LLMs, RAG, agentic AI and applied machine learning
  • Data science researcher for three years, patent holder and three-time hackathon winner
  • Leads technology, strategy and fundraising
Pavel Slobodianskii

Pavel Slobodianskii

Co-Founder & CPO ยท Product & User Experience

AI engineer focused on designing and implementing applied AI systems, with experience across LLMs, RAG and intelligent software systems.

ProductUser ExperienceAI EngineeringApplied AI
Background

Pavel Slobodianskii

  • AI and RPA experience at Infineon and Denso
  • M.Sc. Computer Science, University of Passau
  • M.Sc. Management & Technology, TUM
  • Experience in LLMs, RAG and applied AI systems
  • TUM Entrepreneurial Masterclass graduate with Cellvara
  • Leads product and user experience
In stealth

To be revealed

Co-Founder & CSO ยท Scientific Strategy & Biotech Validation

Biotechnologist with a doctorate and industry R&D experience, holding every Cellvara recommendation against how experiments actually run in the lab. She is still in stealth; her name will be announced once that changes.

Scientific StrategyBiotech R&DGenome EngineeringDomain Validation
Background

To be revealed

  • Ph.D. Biotechnology, TUM
  • M.Sc. Molecular Biology, University of Ulm
  • Biotech R&D experience at TUM and QIAGEN
  • Leads scientific strategy, biotech validation and domain expertise
  • Published synthetic-biotech researcher and inventor in genome engineering

Backed by ecosystem support

Cyber Valley AI Incubator
TUM Startup Launchpad
University and industry mentors
AI and deep-tech builder communities