Sia

About Sia

A story world, a product layer, and a small team building both carefully.

Sia began with an original IP and is expanding into physical-digital experiences that let objects carry identity, provenance, and story.

Core Team

Stewards of the vision

Nishtha Kalra

Nishtha Kalra

Founder & CEO

Nishtha is a product leader and senior developer working across AI, storytelling, and physical-digital products. She founded Sia to build an original storyworld and the technology around it, from creator tools to programmable ownership. She is currently at the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science, University of Oxford, and previously built products at HubSpot and Harry's Inc. She holds an MSc in Machine Learning.

Avantika Mishra

Avantika Mishra

Head of Storyworlds & IP

Avantika is a writer and surfer drawn to mythology, literature, memory, and the stories held by land and sea. She leads Sia's storyworld and IP development, shaping its characters, lore, and emotional core. Her work carries the depth of South Asian traditions into original stories for a new generation.

Prisha Verma

Prisha Verma

AI Product Growth & Commercialisation Lead

Prisha brings a marketing lens to how Sia's products and stories find their audience. She holds both a BSc in Management with Marketing and an MSc in Marketing from Royal Holloway, University of London, and has completed advanced professional training in digital marketing at Imperial College London. At Sia, she works across product positioning, audience insight, and growth at the intersection of AI, storytelling, and technology.

Advisors

Guidance across story, systems, and ownership

Akshay Kant

Akshay Kant

Strategic Advisor - Web3 & IP Economy

Akshay is Head of Engineering at Agant, where he builds regulated stablecoin infrastructure. His experience spans payments, digital assets, and production-grade Web3 systems at organisations including Visa and Chainalysis. He advises Sia on programmable ownership, platform architecture, and how original IP can participate safely in emerging digital economies.

Janu Verma

Janu Verma

Tech Advisor - Applied ML & Narrative Systems

Janu is an applied ML researcher and product builder with more than a decade of experience across Mastercard, IBM, and Microsoft. He advises Sia on responsible AI, platform intelligence, and narrative tools that support creators without replacing their voice.

Sanjay Ghosh

Sanjay Ghosh

Domain Advisor - Screenplay & Story

Sanjay is a filmmaker and screenwriter whose credits include Fissadi on Amazon Prime, Lantrani on Zee5, and the upcoming Civil Lines on Sony Liv. As the founder of Draft Zero, he works where screenplay craft meets AI-assisted development. He advises Sia on story structure, screenplay workflows, and keeping the writer's voice central.

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