Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology

Sadhak of Integral Yoga & Curator at Oneness community

Supermorpheus’ over arching purpose is to grow the level of consciousness in the Startup ecosystem. 

As a community environment we bring together various stakeholders (founders, investors, professionals), the ones who are keen & open to work on their own personal growth and evolution. And as a result build more conscious startups. Currently the community consists of around 700 individuals and 250 plus startups.

As an investment platform we invest small amounts in select startups from the community & have made around 65 investments so far.

Supermorpheus

Curator

In 2015, with some friends, I started the “Oneness Community” -  a platform to enable connections, sharing & collaboration between individuals who are on the journey of "Integral Spirituality"

Currently this community has 70+ members who are creating transformative models to live & work in their personal & collective contexts. These models and projects are part of the new-world emerging from a new consciousness - conscious businesses, education / learning centres, natural farming, holistic health, architecture, independent publishing, cafes, funds & a lot more, covering all areas of human lives. Oneness as a platform aspires to contribute to the growth of consciousness of individuals and a collective growth of human consciousness.

Oneness Community

In 2012, I stumbled onto Integral Yoga, the path to understanding and realising oneself and the truth of world existence. Since then, seeking for a deeper & wider understanding of life and an attempt to live from that deeper understanding has become a constant quest

Integral Yoga

Student and practitioner

In 2008, at the beginning of startup ecosystem in India,  Nandini & I collaborated to start  “The Morpheus”, which was India’s first startup accelerator. Morpheus supported 82 companies officially over 6 years & created the Morpheus Gang - an amazing community with now 300+ entrepreneurs, who are constantly sharing learnings and helping each other.

In 2014, The Morpheus accelerator was paused for Sameer to devote all his time to self-growth & engagement in Integral Work, out of the new emerging understanding.

Morpheus Gang

Cofounder & Learner

In August of 2004, Sameer & Nandini visited India to attend a marriage and were denied Visa by the US consulate. This led to their staying back in India and creating a startup, Madhouse, which was an attempt to build Netflix (old version) for India, delivering physical DVDs to members. Madhouse was another superlative learning experience with the whole cycle of choosing a startup idea, implementing it, and going through the roller coaster. Madhouse got sold due to lack of funds in June 2007 to a well-funded company.

Madhouse

In 2002 I discovered my interest in film-making and started devoting a lot of time, outside of office, working with theatre groups & independent film-makers. Soon I started a short film project, which was screened at a film festival in the US. During the making of this film, I met with Nandini. We worked as collaborators on this film and the association lead to a marriage.

Soon after, we shifted to Silicon Valley, California. The interest in film-making continued to become stronger and the plan was to work in the US for a couple of years, save money, buy a Mac to edit films, a good digital camera to shoot, and move to back to India to make independent films.

Learning Film making

Learner

After graduating in 1998, I tried and quit each of my first 3 jobs within a few months as I did not find any of them interesting or challenging enough. In 1999 I joined a small tech startup in Bangalore and spent more than 4 years there. I look back at the time at Sonim Inc as superlative learning in a superlative work environment .

Sameer Guglani