Tej Tadi


Tej Tadi is the CEO of MindMaze, a company that generates 30M a year in revenue from its computing platform. The company is valued at over $1.6 billion.

Early life and education

Tej Tadi was born in a family of physicians in Hyderabad. After studying Electronics Engineering in India, he moved to Switzerland in 2004 to pursue his PhD, which he received from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. His topic was Neural Mechanisms of the Embodied Self: Merging virtual reality and electrical neuroimaging. He is on the international advisory board of the Brain Forum.

Public and media appearances

Tej Tadi has delivered talks at scientific conferences and meetings around the world on his research. He has been profiled in Forbes, Fortune, and Techcrunch. He appeared at TEDxLausanne in 2014 to speak about accelerating recovery after a stroke.

Awards and honours

In 2009, the Pfizer Foundation awarded Tadi the neuroscience research prize. In 2011, he also received the Chorafas Foundation Award for his work. In 2012, the IMD Business School honoured Tej with its startup prize. In 2015, The World Economic Forum named him a Young Global Leader. In 2016, he was named EY Entrepreneur of the Year.

Notable research articles

Tej Tadi has co-authored several peer-reviewed journal articles in the areas of embodied self, manipulating bodily self-consciousness, boundaries of agency and conscious experience humans and neurorehabilitation using virtual reality and brain imaging techniques.