FORBES 30 UNDER 30 ASIA 2022
Forbes 30 under 30 Asia 2022 list released today
highlights Young Entrepreneurs and Rising Stars Who Are
Redefining the Future of Business and Society in Asia and
who are inspiring change and driving innovation in their
respective fields amid the challenges brought about by the
Covid-19 pandemic.
Happy to share that eight young BITS alumni have been
featured in the Forbes 30 under 30 – Asia 2022 list:
Malhar Patil, Rajat Gupta, and Shourya Agarwal (all K. K.
Birla Goa Campus alumni), are the founders of Flam App.
They have raised $3.5 million recently and their current
valuation is in the range of $50-$75 million.
Harish Uthayakumar and Shreyans Sancheti (both K. K.
Birla Goa Campus students and soon to be alumni in
2022), are the founders of Bluelearn. They have raised a
pre-seed round of $500,000 recently and their current
valuation is in the range of $4-$6 million.
Ahmed Faraaz, Harshit Awasthi, and Sashakt Tripathi (all
Pilani campus students and soon to be alumni in 2022),
are the founders of Kalam Labs, a Y-Combinator backed
venture. They have raised a pre-seed round of $450,000
and undisclosed some in the seed round recently and their
current valuation is in the range of $10-$14 million.
Health Care and Sciences Category
Prasanna Date, Research Scientist, Oak Ridge National
Laboratory. Date is developing novel quantum machine
learning techniques that are faster than current
technology. His work seeks to enable faster and more
effective data analysis in scientific and consumer
applications such as high-energy physics and self-driving
cars.
Finance & Venture Capital
Sajal Khanna co-founded Akudo along with Lavika
Agarqwal and Jagveer Gandhi (over 30) of IITR in 2020.
The digital bank offers prepaid debit cards for teenagers
while helping them to manage their expenses and save
money. Akudo, whose name means "peaceful wealth" in
Nigeria's Igbo language, has already raised $4.2 million in
seed funding led by Y-Combinator.
A common theme in all these above startups is that they
started their venture while being on campus, and have
been invested in by BITS Alumni Angels.