# Dhruv Boruah

> Builder, founder, operator and investor. 20+ years building ventures across AI, climate and robotics, from government innovation funds to active conflict zones in Ukraine.

Dhruv Boruah works on problems that do not have an obvious owner. He is in the United States and the United Kingdom. Email: dhruv@boruah.com

## Pages

- [Home](https://www.boruah.com/): Positioning, selected work, proof and current focus.
- [Experiments](https://www.boruah.com/experiments): Things he is currently building, testing or figuring out.
- [About](https://www.boruah.com/about): Career and not-for-profit record.
- [Invest](https://www.boruah.com/invest): Early investments, preferably in SPVs.
- [Contact](https://www.boruah.com/contact): dhruv@boruah.com
- [Previous website](https://www.boruah.com/old/): The earlier site, kept as it was.
- [Global Innovation Response](https://www.boruah.com/work/global-innovation-response): Hackathons and a startup school, for 3,000 people in 79 countries.

## Experiments

### Deepsys

What happens when several LLMs, each with a different persona, join the boardroom? Voice and video agents that challenge executives, test their judgement and show how they think.

### TuringFarms

Can mine-contaminated farmland in Ukraine become productive before it is cleared? Exploring robotics, AI and autonomous farming to find out.

Site: https://www.turingfarms.com/

### Photon Marketplace

Can demand for space-based solar power be assembled before the infrastructure exists? A marketplace connecting potential buyers with developers.

Site: https://overview.boruah.com/

### Selected projects

A small number of unusual technology, industrial and innovation projects. Enquiries go to https://www.boruah.com/contact

## Work

- WarToWheels (2026): A bicycle made from a Su-34 downed on the front line in Ukraine, ridden from Kyiv to London. https://www.wartowheels.com/
- Oceanways (2021 to 2026): World’s first zero emission cargo submarines. https://www.oceanways.co/
- The Thames Project (2018): A bamboo water bike on the Thames. The campaign reached 300 million people. https://www.thethamesproject.org/
- Global Innovation Response (2020): Hackathons and a startup school, for 3,000 people in 79 countries. https://www.boruah.com/work/global-innovation-response
- UK Government Advisory (2020 to 2025): Five years advising how a £60m plastics fund was deployed.
- Impact Startup School (2017): A programme for early climate and impact startups. 50 startups across 25 countries, with about £150k funded. The BBC called him “The solutions whisperer”: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cszv2b

## Current focus

Building OutsideSpec (https://www.outsidespec.com/) to explore ideas and founders in frontier tech; experimenting hands-on with AI orchestration for robots, AI × nature, and off-grid LLMs; and looking for difficult problems worth getting my hands dirty with.

## Invest

He invests early, preferably in SPVs, and looks for founders in low Earth orbit, autonomous systems, energy, compute, chemicals, electronics, and other deep tech that does not belong to a category.

He looks for: early, weird solutions, some traction, young founders, strong research.

Talk about a startup: https://www.boruah.com/contact

## Contact

- Email: dhruv@boruah.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhrubajyotiboruah/
- X: https://x.com/dhruvboruah