Founder · CitizenSutra
Civic infrastructure for the way professionals give.
I am building CitizenSutra, a platform for successful professionals to commit to recurring contributions toward underfunded work in global health and development. Before this, I worked in public health, rural development, and digital payments. I care about how capital and attention actually reach the places that need them.
About
I am the founder of CitizenSutra, where we are building infrastructure for civic giving. The idea is simple to state and hard to do well. Successful professionals, in India and across the diaspora, commit to a recurring contribution toward underfunded work in global health and development. We call that a CitizenSIP. The aim is not one more donation portal. It is a durable coalition with the continuity, and the standing, to shape where priorities go.
Before this, I spent years close to the places where public systems either work or fail. I built merchant payments at Axis Bank through the demonetization era. I worked on water and sanitation with Gram Vikas. I helped run a district Covid response in Garhwa. I studied health financing at the University of Washington. The question underneath all of it stayed the same. How does money meant for public good actually reach people, and what gets lost on the way.
CitizenSutra is a synthesis of my lived experiences. It is my attempt at an answer that holds up at scale.
Focus
Underfunded programs, the metrics that justify them, and the financing that keeps them alive.
Recurring civic participation, behavior change, and continuity over one-off generosity.
Where institutional capital goes, and what the current funding vacuum reshapes.
Practical, multilingual tools that widen what frontline organizations can do, with humans deciding.
District-level execution, the public and private gap, and how programs land on the ground.
The product, the early pilots, and the small team taking it from prototype to coalition.
Selected path
Building civic infrastructure for recurring giving toward underfunded global health and development.
Public health, with work close to health metrics and the economics of where money does the most good.
Systems work alongside organizations driving development outcomes across rural India.
Helped mobilize funds, stand up an oxygen plant, and pilot a frontline health application during the pandemic.
Rural WASH work through the Swachh Bharat years, where outcomes are measured household by household.
Built payments infrastructure at scale through the demonetization era.
Connect
The quickest way to reach me is LinkedIn or email at siddhant@citizensutra.com. For a focused, one-to-one conversation, I keep a few paid slots open on Topmate.