Shrey Agarwal

I am the Co-Founder & CEO of Alt Earth, where we are building the AI infra to understand and explore Earth systems.

I was brought up amidst the forests & tea gardens of Darjeeling (India) and now divide my time across Alt’s research labs at Darjeeling, Bangalore and Cambridge (UK).

I studied Chemistry & Mechanical Engineering at BITS Pilani and led consumer AI at SuperShare (0 → Series A) and seekho.ai (-1 → Series A, acquired), alongside my double major.

I love chemistry, deep time & technology.

I’m interested in:

• Exploring new institutional forms for scientific innovation, from FROs, automated labs, cities of abundance, to modern lunar societies
• Creating different forms of civilization backup storage, like the Svalbard Seed Vault
• Building inter-disciplinary labs inspired by Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, and MIT's Building 20
• Building and applying Natural General Intelligence (NGI)
• Drilling deeper than the Kola Borehole in my lifetime to unlock novel subsurface insights
• Improving my understanding of deep time: Snowball Earth, Year Without a Summer
• Finding samples like the Apollo lunar rocks that were sealed for 50 years so future scientists with better tools could open them
• All things science fiction (my favourite short story is Asimov's "The Last Question")
• Signing up for quests that involve singing sand dunes, moonbow & synchronous fireflies
• Studying modern chess openings and endgames

I try my best to respond to every thoughtful email I receive at shrey@altcarbon.com.