4x founder
Diva Avaya Sharma
Founder, Cognitio Labs (YC) • Co-Founder, Stanford Global Impact Alumni Alliance • WEF Future 26 • Forbes 30 Under 30 • AI, Industrial Productivity & Economic Development
Experience
Career
2026Cognitio Labs (Y Combinator-Backed)
FounderFounder · United States · 2026 – Present
2026Stanford Alumni Alliance on Innovation For Global Impact
Co-founderCo-Founder & Co-President · Stanford, CA · 2026 – Present
2026International Telecommunication Union
Expert ITU U4SSC Working Group on Future Foresight · Geneva, Switzerland · 2026 – Present
2026World Economic Forum
Future 26 Cohort of The Intergenerational Foresight Initiative · Geneva, Switzerland · 2026 – Present
2025Lean In
Network Leadership - San Francisco Bay Area · San Francisco Bay Area · 2025 – Present
2023Flair Health
FounderFounder · San Francisco Bay Area · 2023 – 2024
2023Y Combinator
Technology & Startups · San Francisco Bay Area · 2023
2021Various Companies
Product Management · San Francisco Bay Area · 2021 – 2023
2018Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Research Assistant to Economists Susan Athey and Ilya Strebulaev · San Francisco Bay Area · 2018 – 2020
2020Ancestry
Product Manager · San Francisco Bay Area · 2020
2020Facebook
Special Projects, Virtual Reality · San Francisco Bay Area · 2020
2020Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP)
FounderFounding Teaching Staff · San Francisco Bay Area · 2020
2020Bessemer Venture Partners
Engineering & Venture Fellow · 2020
2019Johnson & Johnson MedTech
Product Manager · San Francisco Bay Area · 2019
20188VC
Engineering Fellow & Software Engineer at Neighborly · San Francisco Bay Area · 2018
2017European Commission
Advisor & Invited Presenter - Horizon 2020 Agenda · Brussels Metropolitan Area · 2017
- 2015
Humanco Remote Patient Monitoring Wearable Devices
Inventor, RPM Devices · Greater Delhi Area · 2015 – 2017
2016World Bank Group
Advisor & Invited Presenter - Development Financing Initiative (WBGYS) · Washington DC-Baltimore Area · 2016
2016Indian Ministry of Finance
Special Projects, Foreign Direct Investment & Youth Advisor, World Bank · New Delhi · 2016
Bio
Diva is the founder of Cognitio Labs (former Flair telehealth) and inventor of a patented remote patient monitoring device. Previous companies & projects at Ancestry.com, Facebook, Johnson & Johnson, and the Stanford School of Medicine. Alum: Stanford University (Bachelors)