Siddharth Dalmia

Building Neevika Enterprises

In September 2024, I began building Neevika Enterprises. Agro-processing appealed to me because of available raw material, what I saw as limited competition in the market I was considering, and demand for processed goods. Those were my reasons for exploring the opportunity at that time.

My work at Neevika spans the setup and operating development of a chana dal and besan manufacturing business. It includes project planning, site and regulatory coordination, banking compliance and subsidy documentation, machinery and partner coordination, and commercial development.

The business also develops selected machinery in-house and works with partners for other equipment. Turnkey project support can cover detailed project reports, bank and subsidy applications, layout and shed coordination, machinery selection and integration, installation and commissioning, according to the agreed scope. Financing and subsidy decisions remain with the lender and the relevant authority.

Manufacturing brings my earlier work into a physical setting. Layouts, machinery decisions and documents have to relate to the unit being built. I have begun sharing the founder journey through Neevika’s articles and plan to write about the setup process, government schemes and practical uses of AI around business work.

Business consulting and enterprise AI

Omnex Consulting

Business Consultant | Freelance | January 2023 to present

Alongside Neevika, I work with Omnex Consulting on business and startup consultancy, blockchain-related questions and practical applications of generative AI. The work includes processes, lead funnels and response workflows. This consulting role has overlapped with other parts of my professional journey.

I also use AI assistants in my own research, content and operating workflows. I define the task and its boundaries, test the output and check it against the source or the real situation. The usefulness of the result depends on that checking, especially when a document or analysis will inform a business decision.

Brane Enterprises

Senior Presales Consultant | May 2023 to September 2024

At Brane, I worked between client requirements, AI capabilities and commercial proposals. I mapped business processes into large language model use cases, prepared requirements and supported demonstrations. I also worked on responses to requests for proposals, quotations and information, alongside commercial documentation.

My work included 20+ pricing models for LLM solutions and five resource-allocation models in Excel. On the product side, I conducted user acceptance testing on six LLM features and identified 15+ design issues.

I contributed to generative AI and robotic process automation features, competitive benchmarking and ONDC integration. This included seller onboarding, interface designs and technical documentation. I wrote SQL queries for process mining and dashboards used to investigate the causes of process problems.

Startup Sherpa

Founder and Consultant | Began March 2021

Through Startup Sherpa, I advised startups and individuals on legal, product and business matters. The work included regulatory analysis, corporate structuring, product design, wireframes and commercial strategy for fintech and digital-asset businesses.

I worked with 25+ clients, including three international clients, and provided pro bono support to 100+ startups and individuals. My work also included a legal toolkit for entrepreneurs with 100+ templates and 20 self-help guides.

Projects extended beyond technology. They included helping a cloud-kitchen business with its structure, licences, registrations and operating arrangements, as well as estate-planning work involving wills, advance directives and a trust.

Earlier ventures and legal practice

Wealthisle

Founder and legal consultant | March 2021 to June 2023

My Wealthisle work combined product management and legal responsibilities. An initial phase focused on business-to-business data sharing, consent management and privacy frameworks. A later phase explored digital-asset products, including a fractional-ownership NFT platform. I worked full-time through September 2021 and part-time from October 2021.

IndusLaw

Trainee Associate | July to November 2020

Associate | November 2020 to March 2021

At IndusLaw, I worked on corporate transactions, legal and technology-related due diligence, regulatory questions and commercial documentation. My work included transaction-document review and data-protection matters. This experience connected detailed legal analysis with the practical requirements of corporate transactions.

Early product and business development

As Business Lead at WiseL from June 2014 to May 2017, I worked on product management and business development for STYCO. The project included a customer-loyalty programme and onboarding local businesses.

I co-founded Kryptochange and worked on digital-asset exchange functionality and a crypto-pair arbitrage algorithm. The venture received an incubation offer from Startup Tunnel.

As an advisor to Ricex.io from January 2018 to April 2019, I worked on the legal and business considerations around a blockchain-based rice-trading platform and engaged with rice traders in India.

Research and teaching experience

My early experience also included research assistance to Professor Alka Parikh in 2015, a teaching-assistant role at DA-IICT from August to December 2015, and teaching with Vidya & Child from January to March 2017. During law school, I undertook legal internships in 2017 and 2018.

Legal knowledge platforms

I founded IndianLegalBlog.com, where I worked from June 2018 to May 2020, and worked on JurisNode.com from May to November 2020. These projects formed part of my work in explaining Indian law and making legal information accessible.

Education writing and public interest work

Education and qualifications

• Indian School of Business — Post Graduate Programme in Management, 2022–2023. Majors in Strategy and Leadership and Finance; industry specialisation in Public Policy.
• Jindal Global Law School — Bachelor of Laws, 2017–2020.
• DA-IICT — B.Tech. in Information and Communication Technology, 2012–2016.

I passed the CFA Level II examination and the All India Bar Examination. My professional record includes Bar Council of Delhi enrolment in 2020. Further study includes Fintech and Law at FGV in 2020; training in patents and intellectual property at RGNIIPM in 2018; and Coursera courses in Private Equity and Venture Capital and FinTech Law and Policy in 2020.

Books and published writing

• Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies Law in India — author; featured by ISB Alumni.
• A Guide to the Law of Money Laundering — co-author with Vijay Pal Dalmia, 2023 edition.

My published writing also includes “Blockchain and Inheritance” and a co-authored article, “Blockchain And Smart Contracts – Indian Legal Status”. These works examine questions at the intersection of technology and Indian law.

Teaching and community building

I have taught Web3 and financial literacy as visiting faculty at Chitkara University. At ISB, I founded WAGMI, a Web3 community. I have also spoken about blockchain regulation, including an industry talk hosted by IDS.

Public interest litigation

I was a petitioner in Siddharth Dalmia & Anr. v. Union of India & Ors., concerning purchasing practices at private-hospital pharmacies. On 4 March 2025, the Supreme Court disposed of the petition. The Court directed all state governments to consider the issue and take policy decisions they deemed appropriate, without expressing any opinion on the merits.

The work I bring together

Across these roles, my work has involved business analysis, legal and regulatory research, product requirements, commercial models and project coordination. At Neevika, those capabilities come together around manufacturing setup and operations.

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