Vikram Ahuja laughing as he walks toward the camera in a dark studio, hands in his pockets

Founder and CEO, OsseoLabs

Serial founder. AI, EV, biotech, medtech. 5x founder, 3x exits. Business professor.

Applied AI.3D-printed implants.Drug delivery.Electric vehicles.

Not much in common, I know. I just like building technology companies, and I like them best when they change how people live.

About

Call me Vicky.

I was born and raised in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in a family of doctors. I went a different way: economics, a doctorate, then companies. I still ended up around surgeons and skin; I just arrived with a cap table instead of a stethoscope. Home is Carmel, Indiana, with my wife Candy and our two boys, Hugo and Toby.

I build companies because I want to change the world a little, test myself against problems that don't care about my résumé, and change the fortunes of the people who build them with me. Most of what I know about strategy, venture building and money I first taught from a textbook. Running companies is where I found out which parts were true.

Teaching is the part of the work I love most. I taught at Kelley across two stints, ten years in all, and left twice, in 2017 and in 2026. Each time I called it a sabbatical with unusually high stakes. I will be back in the classroom before long, with better material and more to share than any textbook gave me.

Awards

The silverware my companies brought home.

  • OsseoLabs · WIPO Global Awards 2025, global finalist
  • OsseoLabs · The Top 25 MedTech Executives of 2025
  • OsseoLabs · SelectUSA Tech APAC 2024, winner
  • OsseoLabs · MedTech Innovator East Coast, finalist
  • OsseoLabs · Hello Tomorrow Deep Tech Pioneers, shortlisted
  • OsseoLabs · Falling Walls, first runner-up
  • OsseoLabs · Startup World Cup, second runner-up
  • OsseoLabs · VentureBlick Super Innovator, winner
  • OsseoLabs · Innov8 Startup Competition, winner
  • OsseoLabs · BDMS Startup Pitching for Smart Hospital, winner
  • OsseoLabs · ANT Accelerator Demo Day, winner
  • OsseoLabs · Thailand National Innovation Award, first runner-up
  • OsseoLabs · TECH PLANTER Demo Day, grand winner
  • OsseoLabs · TECH PLANTER Mitsui Special Award
  • OsseoLabs · Startup Grind Thailand, winner
  • OsseoLabs · MIDAS Medical Innovation Hackathon, winner
  • OsseoLabs · Medical AI, winner
  • OsseoLabs · NIA, Vienna, winner
  • OsseoLabs · FLY ASIA 2025, finalist
  • OsseoLabs · GITEX Global, Dubai
  • Nabsolute · C&T Allē Awards 2026
  • Nabsolute · SelectUSA Tech 2025, winner
  • Nabsolute · BSB Innovation Award 2024
  • Nabsolute · National Innovation Award 2023
  • Nabsolute · ITEX 2023, gold medal and best award
  • Nabsolute · TECH PLANTER Demo Day Thailand 2022, grand winner
  • Moment of Youth · L'Oréal Big Bang Beauty Tech Innovation, shortlisted
  • Edison Motors · Asia Hardware Battle 2018, winner

Founder

Companies I've built.

Founder & CEO · 2022 to present

01

Implants made for one person, printed from their own scan.

No two skeletons are alike, so we stopped pretending implants should be. OsseoVision, our design software, starts from the patient's own scan and ends with a part shaped for that one body, printed layer by layer from metal powder under a laser. Titanium when the part should stay for life. Magnesium when it should quietly dissolve as the bone heals, so a child never needs a second operation.

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OsseoLabs: 3D-printed magnesium plates and screws, patient-specific plates with a fine porous lattice

Founder and Advisor · 2024 to present

02

Skincare for people who live outdoors.

Most skincare is made for a bathroom mirror. Moment of Youth is made for the lineup at dawn, the chairlift and the long drive home. A balm stick and recovery pads, built on a hyaluronic nanogel a scientific co-founder invented, made to hold moisture at the skin's surface through a day of sun, salt and wind. Nothing to fuss with. Put it on and go back out.

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Moment of Youth: Applying the stick under trees

Founder & CEO · 2022 to 2025

03

The ingredient that gets other ingredients into skin.

Most skincare stops at the front door. The active is fine; it just never gets past the surface. Nabsolute built HyaSphereX to fix that: hyaluronic acid that, dissolved in water, gathers itself into soft spheres small enough to carry an active down into the skin, where it can work. Brands formulate with it rather than around it. Sold to Dr.PONG in November 2025.

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Nabsolute: A translucent porous sphere in close-up, one pore lit lime

Founder & CEO · 2018 to 2021

04

Thailand's first electric motorcycle engineered from the ground up, now badged Iso.

We built the Volta in Bangkok, Thailand's first electric motorcycle engineered from the ground up: battery, motor and controller, all our own. Then the platform that followed, certified for Europe. Today that platform rides under Iso, the historic Italian marque owned by the Lamborghini family. A name like that is not lent to engineering its owners do not trust. Edison was acquired by Giken Mobility in 2021.

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Edison Motors: Iso UNO-X, three-quarter view

Side Projects

Side projects, taken seriously.

Work that did not fit inside a company, so it got its own bench: drug delivery, dermatology, skincare, mobility, industrial AI and education, each held to the standard its field expects, not the one a side project is forgiven.

  1. Drug delivery

    A sugar-based carrier that gets nucleic acids into cells

    A sugar the skin already knows, grafted with a natural polyamine, so DNA and RNA can enter a cell without a virus or a lipid.

    Stealth
  2. Dermatology

    A non-steroidal topical for eczema

    A plant-derived active in a thermoresponsive nanogel, tested head to head against 1% hydrocortisone in a randomized split-side trial of 30 adults.

    Stealth
  3. Skincare

    A skincare formulation studio with its own delivery technology

    A brand brings a brief. The studio returns a finished formula, with the delivery built in.

    Stealth
  4. Mobility

    A titanium brake caliper, printed rather than machined

    Brake calipers printed in titanium for high-end bicycles and motorcycles, lighter and stiffer than anything machined from a block.

    Stealth
  5. Skincare

    Intimate skincare built on a delivery system

    Water-based intimate serums and glides, made to feel like skin and stay that way, with a biopolymer rather than silicone doing the work.

    Stealth
  6. Industrial AI

    Predictive maintenance that learns a machine from its own sensors

    Software that learns a machine's failure signature from its own sensors and calls the downtime before it happens, no resident specialist required.

    Licensed
  7. Education AI

    An AI career finder for high-school students

    A strength-finder test that matches a seventeen-year-old to the degree programs and careers that fit, before the choice gets made for them.

    Licensed

Teaching

The part I'd do for free.

I teach because explaining something to a room of twenty-year-olds is the quickest way to learn whether you understand it. I was Visiting Assistant Professor of Business Economics at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, from 2010 to 2017 and from 2023 to 2026, teaching strategy, game theory, money and economic consulting to undergraduates and MBAs. In between I ran companies, where the lecture notes were corrected. I left in 2026 and intend to be back with better material and a longer list of what the textbook got wrong.

What I taught at Kelley.

  • G345Money, Banking and Capital Markets
  • G400Capstone in Economic Consulting
  • G570Game Theory and Business Strategy (MBA)
  • C565Thinking Strategically (Kelley Direct MBA)

And five more, from introductory business to MBA strategy.

Beyond Kelley: visiting and adjunct teaching at Thammasat's law and business schools, a faculty post at King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, and executive programs for Thai Post and the Expressway Authority of Thailand. Earlier, a volunteer program I co-founded prepared more than 10,000 rural Thai students for university entrance.

Vikram Ahuja at a lectern in a tiered lecture hall

Thoughts

Things I learned the expensive way.

  1. Spin-offsEven a university fund waits for a lead investorIn progress
  2. The economist's readA tariff you can negotiate is a fixed costIn progress
  3. TeachingThe day the dorm-room AI matches my lecture, I'm the one who failedIn progress
  4. Venture buildingWhat three unrelated exits had in commonIn progress
  5. Founder economicsWhose clock you're on once you take the checkIn progress

Let's Talk

If you're building something hard, talk to me.

I like meeting people who are building something hard, and I invest in some of them. I also take board and advisory seats, speak on venture building and medtech, and teach whenever someone hands me a classroom.

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