Our story

We believe biotechnology needs
a new starting point.

Zero State uses AI, quantum computing, and other advanced technologies to take on difficult problems in biology, from detecting cancer earlier to understanding how food may support better health.

That work led us to build Food Vector™, a platform that links food molecules and peptides to biological targets, pathways, and scientific evidence, so every insight can be traced back to its source.

Leadership

The team.

Ravi Gupta

Ravi Gupta

Computational & AI Lead

25+ years at the forefront of AI, blockchain, and quantum innovation. Ex-IBM, EY, and GE executive turned entrepreneur, delivering breakthrough technologies and measurable results.

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Rajesh Sahasrabuddhe

Rajesh Sahasrabuddhe

Quantum Lead

Tech entrepreneur and AI/quantum expert with 25+ years across cloud, blockchain and enterprise platforms. Exited a startup and now driving innovation at the frontier of AI and quantum.

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Judith Klein PhD

Judith Klein-Seetharaman, PhD

Chief Scientific Officer, Biology and Chemistry

Professor at Arizona State University. PhD at MIT under Nobel Laureate Har Gobind Khorana, focusing on protein folding. Dual degrees in Biology and Chemistry from the University of Cologne.

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Sampath Rangasamy PhD

Sampath Rangasamy PhD

Chief Scientific Officer, Genomics

Accomplished researcher and entrepreneur specializing in genomics, precision medicine, and digital health, with expertise in mitochondrial medicine and diabetes research.

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Chase Harms PhD

Chase Harms,PhD

Scientific Officer

Applied Physics PhD from the Colorado School of Mines. Researched protein conformational dynamics at the Single-Molecule Biophysics Laboratory.

Amit Nankar

Amit Nankar

AI & Engineering Leader

AI researcher and data scientist pioneering Graph-RAG and Agentic Chunking, advancing multimodal automation at the intersection of NLP, vision, and quantum.

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Dr. Narayanan MD

Vinodh Narayanan, MD

Chief Scientific Advisor

Medical Director at TGen's Center for Rare Childhood Disorders. Combines a strong physics background with pediatric neurology expertise from Johns Hopkins and Washington University.

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Dr. Manish Chandra

Manish Chandra, MD

Chief Scientific Advisor

Research, Medical Education, and Hospitals. Strong consulting professional with a DNB focused on Radiation Oncology from the National Board of Examinations.

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Collaborations

Strategic collaborations.

NVIDIA Inception Program

Zero State is a member of the NVIDIA Inception Program, using GPU-accelerated infrastructure for large-scale molecular computation.

AWS Partner Network

Leveraging AWS cloud infrastructure for scalable computation and secure, access-controlled data processing.

Milestones

How we got here.

  1. 2025

    Zero State founded

    Company founded to connect food-derived molecules and peptides to biological targets and mechanisms.

  2. 2025

    Food Vector™ platform

    Built the Food Vector™ platform — a curated molecular database linked to an evidence-based knowledge graph.

  3. 2025

    Patent applications filed

    Provisional patents filed covering the platform’s molecular discovery methods.

  4. 2026

    Platform expansion

    Expanding coverage across molecular families, with client engagements and continued validation.

Get in touch

Interested in what we’re building?

We’re always looking for collaborators, advisors, and partners who share our vision for evidence-based molecular discovery.