Vikrant Patankar makes films for technology startups, from script to final color. He is the founding filmmaker at HeyClicky, previously worked with Composio and Catalyx Space, and is a Kothari and Emergent Ventures fellow developing the narrative short Summer Montage.
Founding Filmmaker
Founding filmmaker at Humansongs (YC S26). Wrote, directed, shot and edited every video in the Make Something and HeyClicky launch campaigns: 3M+ organic views with no paid promotion, including 1.1M on the main launch film. Since then: real-time graphics and Windows launches.
Emergent Ventures Fellow
Developing Summer Montage, a narrative short set in Mumbai, with support from Emergent Ventures. The film is in development for a planned 2027 festival run and uses real locations and actors rather than AI-generated imagery.
Founding Fellow
A fellow of the Kothari Fellowship, founded by brothers Pranav, Akshay and Nikunj Kothari. Fellowship support helped him make For the Love of Interstellar, an essay film.
Founding Filmmaker
Sole, founding filmmaker: wrote, directed, shot and edited everything the company published, on budgets up to $40K. The Series A musical Agents! Agents! Agents! hit 1M+ organic views and was featured live on TBPN; one Instagram reel reached 1.2M views.
Judge
Invited as one of four judges, with judges from Founders, Inc., Render Studios and Bondu, for The Editor Company's competition in which about 40 filmmakers get five hours to conceive, shoot and deliver a short film.
Founder & CEO
Built MuseYard, an app to collect, connect and understand what interests you, as Entrepreneur in Residence at The Residency in Bengaluru, and documented the build in public on film.
Product Designer
Led design for BlockLock, a decentralized password manager (Top 5 at ETHDam 2024). Refreshed the studio's portfolio site and pitch-ready brand assets, and animated and edited its showreel for the MakerDAO → Sky brand refresh.
Video Production Lead
Led video production for the space-logistics startup. Wrote, directed and edited the Rex 2.0 re-entry capsule drop-test film (130K views) and the $5.4M seed round announcement, cut remotely from raw footage of the Nevada test.
Assistant Director
Director's assistant and AD to SXSW-winning, Oscar-qualified director Pranav Bhasin on Taylor's Version (2023; Vimeo Staff Pick, 100K+ views on YouTube and Instagram) and Billi (2024). Worked with him on feature screenplays.
Product Designer
Shipped prototypes and component libraries for the Deep Skills app, and worked on client projects including Spark (MakerDAO), Alphaday and GitPOAP. Built the studio's no-code infrastructure and ran community design sprints with the CEO.
B.E. Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering
