FLUIDANALYTICS.AI
Unifying Cities’ Water Data for Intelligent, Catchment-Scale Management
Fluid Analytics with the WEF Team
3Space London 2024
Our Vision
We envision a future where rivers are living indicators of urban health—continuously monitored, understood, and protected through intelligent, catchment-wide systems. In this future, cities no longer manage water in silos, but operate with a unified, real-time understanding of how infrastructure, environment, and communities interact across entire watersheds.
Fluid Analytics is building the digital foundation for this future by transforming fragmented water data into a continuous, system-level view of urban water dynamics. By integrating underground networks, surface waters, rivers, sensors, robotics, and AI, we aim to enable cities to anticipate risk, adapt to climate pressures, and intervene before failures propagate downstream.
Our long-term vision is to make proactive, data-driven water management the global standard—so cities can protect rivers, safeguard public health, and build resilient water systems capable of supporting sustainable growth in an increasingly uncertain climate.
Founding Team
Fluid Analytics was founded by a team that combines deep technical research, product engineering, and real-world infrastructure experience. The founders bring decades of hands-on work across robotics, artificial intelligence, software platforms, and complex physical systems—spanning academic research, Silicon Valley engineering, and large-scale field deployments.
This multidisciplinary foundation shapes how the company builds technology. From autonomous robotic systems and embedded hardware to scalable software platforms and AI-driven analytics, the founding team has repeatedly translated advanced research into deployable systems operating in constrained, high-risk environments. That experience informs a rigorous, systems-oriented approach to water infrastructure—one that values reliability, integration, and operational realism as much as innovation.
At its core, the founding team shares a long-term commitment to building enduring infrastructure technology. Their focus is not on point solutions, but on creating platforms that cities, utilities, and institutions can trust over decades—systems designed to evolve with growing data, changing climates, and increasing urban complexity.
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CEO
Asim R. Bhalerao
Asim is a robotics and AI engineer with over 20 years of experience building intelligent systems that operate in complex, real-world environments. Prior to Fluid Analytics, he led engineering teams in surgical robotics and autonomous surveillance systems, and later founded and scaled robotic inspection technologies for underground infrastructure. At Fluid Analytics, Asim focuses on translating advanced robotics, sensing, and AI into deployable platforms that help cities understand and manage water systems at a catchment scale.
CPO
Nidhi Jain
Nidhi is a software engineer and product leader with deep experience building scalable, user-centric platforms. She has held engineering and product roles in Qualcomm and start-ups in Silicon Valley, developing high-reliability software systems across fintech, mobile, backend, and data-driven applications. At Fluid Analytics, Nidhi leads platform architecture and product strategy, ensuring that complex infrastructure data is transformed into intuitive, actionable tools for utilities, cities, and decision-makers.
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Director & Scientific Advisor
Dr. Rajeev Bhalerao
Rajeev is a theoretical physicist with over four decades of experience in fundamental research and academic leadership. He has held senior research and faculty positions at premier institutions including the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) and the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), contributing to advances in nuclear/ particle physics. At Fluid Analytics, Rajeev guides the scientific foundations of AI model development and data interpretation, ensuring the platform is grounded in rigorous, first-principles research.