We are not here to predict the future.

We are here to detect what’s shifting , and help you move with clarity before the crisis hits.

RAKSHA is a woman of colour-led global intelligence firm that exists to challenge how institutions perceive, prepare for, and respond to systemic risk. Founded by Aarathi Krishnan after two decades of work across humanitarian, philanthropic, and geopolitical systems, RAKSHA was built as a refusal to accept reactive, extractive, and detached models of intelligence.

Our team blends AI signal detection, geospatial and open-source intelligence, systems modelling, and deep contextual foresight. But it’s not just our tools that make us different . It’s our stance.

We work with care. With rigour. And with the kind of unflinching imagination required to face what’s coming.

Aarathi Krishnan, RAKSHA’s
Executive Director & Founder

I founded RAKSHA because I was tired of watching powerful institutions pretend they didn’t see the rupture coming.

Too often, risk is treated as technical. Something to model, monitor, or manage. But risk is also relational. It’s about power, silence, and what we choose not to see.

With over two decades of experience, I’ve advised UN agencies, multilateral bodies, philanthropic foundations, and international NGOs on crisis anticipation, systemic risk, and strategic transformation. I’ve built global intelligence systems, designed foresight strategies for billion-dollar portfolios, and guided senior leadership through disruption across some of the world’s most politically sensitive environments.

Born in Malaysia, raised in Australia, and now based in Brooklyn, I’ve lived in 17 countries and spent my life working across borders—professional and personal. I know what it means to navigate uncertainty in real time.

I’ve spoken on global stages including TED and the United Nations, and my work bridges deep geopolitical analysis with systems-level design, cultural insight, and radical imagination.

RAKSHA is the result of that journey.
A refusal to accept extractive consulting or glossy inaction.
A wager that we can — and must — do intelligence differently.

This is where relational intelligence meets real-world stakes.
Where rigor, care, and courage are non-negotiable.