Rajat Sethi is Co-Founder of QuBeats, a defense-tech deep-tech startup pioneering quantum sensing and positioning solutions for India's defense sector, working closely with the Indian Navy and Armed Forces.

Rajat holds a B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT Kharagpur, an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management, and an MPA in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School, combining elite technical and strategic expertise.

A published author and Visiting Fellow at India Foundation, Rajat previously served as political adviser to the Chief Ministers of Manipur and Jharkhand, and as a Senior Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF).

Rajat also leads AI-driven legal innovation at Counsello AI and has prior experience at the Arthashastra Foundation and MIT Sloan, bridging public policy, technology strategy, and frontier deep-tech.

QuBeats won the prestigious ADITI 2.0 Defence Challenge, securing a Rs. 25 crore government grant to build an indigenous Quantum Positioning System (QPS) for the Indian Navy, enabling GPS-free navigation in contested zones.