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Chhail Khalsa

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Founder & Creative Principal at Anuvad Innovation Studio
📍 Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Chhail Khalsa is an award-winning design researcher and the Founder of Anuvad Innovation Studio, a company incubated at IIM Bangalore. She specializes in merging traditional crafts with smart textiles to create functional, human-centered products. A graduate of the National Institute of Design, her work has gained international recognition at events like Dutch Design Week and Vienna Design Week.

Chhail is driven by a deep personal passion for exploring the intersection of materials, technology, and innovation. Anuvad began as a personal creative outlet, a way for her to experiment and challenge conventions outside the traditional textile industry. She values creating a dynamic, collaborative environment and is passionate about telling stories through her work.

Unique fact: Chhail recently pitched her company, Anuvad Innovation Studio, and its unique e-textile products on Season 4 of Shark Tank India.

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Experience
2 Years
Current Role
Founder & Creative Principal
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Personality Overview

How Chhail shows up

ROI Conscious
Upfront
Hard To Convince

They respond well to confident salespeople. They care equally about the product and its potential impact. They don’t always try to control the conversation but neither do they like yielding it fully.

Priorities

Topics Chhail cares about

Crafted E-Textiles
Her company's core mission is to blend traditional crafts with technology, creating patented woven circuits for interactive textiles like heated cushions and musical fabrics.
Human-Centered Tech
Across her company's messaging and in interviews, she repeatedly emphasizes her goal of "humanising technology" by making it intuitive, aesthetic, and seamlessly integrated into daily life.
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Career

Work history

9-2021
Founder & Creative Principal
Anuvad Innovation Studio
4-2021
Visiting Faculty
National Institute of Design
2-2021
Business Designer and Strategist
SoftStory
6-2022 - 6-2024
Adjunct Professor
Anant National University
2-2022 - 5-2022
Visiting Faculty
Anant National University
In the press

Media appearances

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Education
2017 - 2019
Master's degree
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
2009 - 2014
Graduate diploma
National Institute of Design
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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