Divya Rengarajan
A biomedical engineer and regulatory specialist who anchors operations and delivery quality, grounding every engagement in rigour and governance.
About us
Built from inside higher education.
Founder-led, deliberately small, and accountable to a handful of institutions at a time.
Who we are
Partnerships are the craft. Health and life sciences is the strength.
NexELabs builds cross-border partnerships for universities, governments and industry, with our strength in health and life sciences. We do one thing well: we find the right partner, structure the right model, and stay accountable through delivery.
The firm is Australian, with an Indian entity and continuous operations across India. Its founding view is simple — the sector has no shortage of advice, and a considerable shortage of people who will stay until something is actually delivered.
The founder
A biotechnologist who came up inside the university sector.
I did not arrive at higher education from consulting. I trained as a biotechnologist and then spent nearly two decades inside the Australian university system, in senior international roles — building research collaboration, industry and government engagement, and institution-to-institution partnerships from the inside rather than from across the table.
That matters for a practical reason. I know what a partnership looks like from the desk that has to deliver it: which approvals are real obstacles and which are formalities, what a faculty will genuinely resource, and why so many agreements quietly stop after the signing photograph. NexELabs exists because I kept watching good partnerships fail at the delivery stage rather than the negotiation.
Vignesh Vijayaraghavan — Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Leadership
Who else you will work with.
Alongside the founder, two people carry the delivery and the regional relationships.
David Samuel
Leads engagement across Sri Lanka and the Maldives, with long-standing institutional relationships throughout the region.
Specialists by discipline
Clinical, regulatory and research advisors are brought in by discipline for the engagements that need them, rather than carried as overhead.
Partners
Working with universities, industry and government.
A growing network across Australia, India, Malaysia, New Zealand, Vietnam and beyond — supporting partnership development, industry engagement and research translation.
Engagements are shaped around institutional priorities and may span partnership development, capability building, industry-linked learning, innovation pathways and translational collaboration. Descriptions here are intentionally broad and do not disclose confidential scope or commercial arrangements.
Contact
Let's start with your objective.
Tell us what you are trying to achieve and which markets matter, and we will tell you honestly whether we are the right firm for it.
+61 434 421 008 · ceo@gonexsphere.com
Start a conversation with the founder
Enquiries come to Vignesh directly. Nothing is shared outside NexELabs.