I'm Ashish Jagtiani, Co-founder & CEO of Octargus, a stealth startup reimagining how science gets done by combining human expertise with intelligent automation.

Over the last two decades, I've built across disciplines from semiconductor R&D at IBM to co-founding Chronus Health, a medtech startup focused on point-of-care diagnostics. At Chronus, where I served as CTO and co-founder, I spent eight years helping build something from scratch. Leaving in December was one of the hardest decisions of my life. It wasn't about equity or future gains it was about stepping away from something deeply personal, something I'd poured years of myself into. What made it painful were not the missed opportunities but the broken promises. Those lessons weren't abstract; they were lived. And while the company didn't make it, the experience sharpened how I think about timing, leadership, and the blurry middle between building fast and building right.

In parallel, I run Twenty Seven Labs, where I partner with early-stage deeptech and diagnostics startups to bring hard technologies to life. Across both ventures, my belief is the same: simplify the complex, build with intent, and design for scale from day one.

If you're a founder navigating that uncertain space between discovery and delivery, I'd love to hear your story.