About AgniKawach
The name joins two Sanskrit words: Agni, fire, and Kawach, shield.
AgniKawach Safety Solutions Private Limited was incorporated in June 2026 and is headquartered in New Delhi, with offices in Chennai and Pune.
We build software for consequence modelling and quantitative risk assessment: the analysis that tells an operator, a designer and a regulator what happens when containment fails, and who is affected.
Why we exist
The gap between required and possible
Industry is growing, and safety regulation is tightening with it. Both are right. But the analysis that demonstrates safety has stayed slow and expensive, and much of it runs on methods established decades ago.
The result is a gap between the analysis that is required and the analysis that is possible. Facilities that should model in detail settle for a simpler answer, because the detailed one costs too much and takes too long.
AgniKawach exists to close that gap, and to give India a capability in industrial risk simulation that it has never had.
More than a product
What this capability is for
Protects people and assets
Puts advanced hazard analysis within reach of facilities that currently settle for less, helping prevent fires, explosions and toxic releases.
Builds national capability
Gives India its own capability in industrial risk simulation, aligned with Atmanirbhar Bharat, Make in India and Digital India.
Enables the energy transition
Provides the consequence modelling that hydrogen, ammonia, LNG and energy storage need in order to scale safely, in support of national hydrogen and clean energy programmes worldwide.
Serves emerging economies
Makes advanced safety analysis affordable for industrialising nations that have the same hazards and far smaller budgets.
Aligned with regulators
Built around real reporting requirements, with open validation and audit ready output.
Built for real conditions
Physics that accounts for actual terrain, weather and plant layout rather than generic global averages.
Aligned with global goals
Supports the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement, protecting people and assets today and building capability for the decades ahead.
Board of Directors
Governance
Mr Rajnish Kumar
Chairman and Additional Director
Former Chairman, State Bank of India. Independent Director, Larsen & Toubro Limited.
Dr J.P. Gupta
Managing Director and Founder
Five decades in chemical, oil and gas, energy and sustainability. Former Chairman of the Expert Appraisal Committee at the Ministry of Environment, Government of India. Formerly Engineers India Limited and IIT Delhi.
Shri B.C. Tripathi
Director
Former Chairman and Managing Director, GAIL (India) Limited.
Dr Deiveegan Muthusamy
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Principal architect of the platform.
Mr Dinesh K. Sarraf(Invited)
Director
Former Chairman and Managing Director, ONGC. Former Chairperson, Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board.
Financial Adviser
Mr Manish Mittal
Financial Adviser
Chartered Accountant and US Certified Public Accountant, with more than twenty years in finance leadership.
Core team
The people building it
Dr Deiveegan Muthusamy
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
PhD in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Madras. More than twenty years in fire and explosion modelling, hydrogen safety and computational consequence analysis, including sixteen years at a leading international safety software company, latterly as head of its research organisation in Norway and then as its software general manager in India. Led a national hydrogen safety research programme funded by the Research Council of Norway with major energy and industrial gas companies as partners. Designed a large scale jet fire test facility to ISO 22899-1. More than twenty peer reviewed publications. Earlier at IFP Energies nouvelles in Paris, Loughborough University in the United Kingdom, and IIT Madras.
Mr Yogesh Gawas
Head of Quality
Master of Engineering in Thermal Engineering, with more than fifteen years in industrial computational fluid dynamics and software validation. Built and scaled the validation framework for a leading international safety simulation product across more than a hundred campaigns. Holds independent, binding authority over every validation claim AgniKawach makes.
Mr Gaurav Ashok Patil
Head of Platform Development
Managing Director, KCE Centre of Excellence. Leads platform engineering, deployment and delivery.
Mr Rahul Gupta
Head of AI
IIT Delhi. Leads the artificial intelligence programme, covering surrogate models and the assistive workflow layer.
Advisory Board
Senior scientific, regulatory, industrial and academic leadership
Dr Chitra Rajagopal
Former Distinguished Scientist and Director General, DRDO. Formerly Director of the Centre for Fire, Explosive and Environment Safety, and later led the Centre of Excellence in Process Safety and Risk Management at IIT Delhi. PSA Fellow, Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India.
Prof. K.K. Pant
Director, IIT Roorkee.
Prof. P.S. Kulkarni
Director, School of Energy and Environment, Defence Institute of Advanced Technology, Pune.
Prof. Vagesh D. Narasimhamurthy(Invited)
Professor, Fluid Mechanics Group, IIT Madras.
Offices
Where we are
Registered office
New Delhi
N-161, Third Floor, Flat No. 301–302, Gautam Nagar, South Delhi 110049
India
Chennai
Office being established
India
Pune
Office being established
Talk to us
If you are an operator, a consultant, a regulator or a research partner, we would like to hear from you.