I put this post in the second-chance pool* as soon as I found out about it, but given that the startup is India, I think Paras might also be, in which case he may be offline for a while! (Edit: and will have rather a lot of responses waiting for him when that changes...)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/pool, explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308