Startup Nation: 10 Emerging Founders from IIT and IIM Shaping India’s Future
India’s emergence as a global innovation hub is being fueled by a new generation of entrepreneurs—many of whom are graduates of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) & Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs). With just a fraction of the country’s annual graduates, IIT & IIM alumni are behind more than two dozen unicorns, have raised over $36 billion in venture capital, and have created more than 400,000 jobs globally. According to NASSCOM and Tracxn, nearly one-third of all founders behind India’s top 200 high-growth startups hail from IITs & IIMs.From clean energy and AI to education and industrial transformation, these founders are solving high-impact challenges at scale. Among them, the following ten alumni are building ventures that are helping shape India’s economic fu...










