Meet the youngest CEOs of India

Guys can you imagine a 12 year old starting a Silicon Valley company by getting funding from Intel !Or a 12 year old being the CEO of an app development company and giving his experience to thousands of adults at an IIM? A teenager raising over $1.5 million for orphans worldwide?

These guys are living proof that age is just a number when it comes to achieving success & excellence! When the sky’s your limit, nothing can stop you from realizing your true potential! Let’s find out more about these 3 inspiring young entrepreneurs who are a role model for every child.

1. Shravan and Sanjay Kumaran The story of this brother duo from Chennai is right out of the movies! Shravan(Age 14) and Sanjay(Age 12) are perhaps India’s youngest entrepreneurs.

Sanjay and Shravan Kumaran They are the founders of GoDimensions, which is an app development unit founded in 2011 in their home. Since then, they have developed 11 apps that are available on Google Play Store as well as Apple App Store. Their apps have received more than 70,000 downloads!

They’ve made presentations at IIM-Banglore & TEDx and have also been giving talks to thousands of adults at SAP event.
Their first app, ‘Catch me Cop’ a gaming Application, turned out to be a vast hit, such that even former president Late Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam on his visit to their school loved playing game. The game involves a wide hunt for a con who escapes prison. There are interesting chases through a desert, maze and beach. ‘Alphabets Board’, ‘Color Pallette’ and ‘Prayer Planet’ are among the other apps that they have launched which are basically in the area of games,Education, lifestyle and convenience. They are hopeful that at least 65% of smartphone users in India will get a chance to use their apps.

Their room is a digital lounge filled with a multitude of gadgets from Samsung & Apple and their spare time is spent on coding and debugging test apps.

2. Neha Gupta
At the tender age of 9 when most kids seldom think beyond toys, friends and vacations, Neha was struck by the condition of orphaned and underprivileged kids in India and she went on to create a nonprofit organization, Empower Orphans, which is now a global charity that has raised US $1.6 million.

The organization raises money for orphans worldwide and helps to build classrooms, buy books, pay for health exams,equip computer labs, supply water .
It all started when as a part of a family tradition, she went out to distribute gifts to orphans on her birthday in her Indian hometown. She was struck by the living condition of these kids. “The place was just really in shambles. I didn’t want to accept these things. These are things i wanted to fix.” (In an interview to ABC News). She came back home and immediately held a garage sale of all her toys and made 30000 INR from it. From that point on, she never looked back. She started selling handmade wine charms door-to-door and at community events to raise money for school books and other educational expenses for orphans. She also went around collecting corporate donations in her father’s car.

 

A 17-year-old Neha won the prestigious International Children’s Peace Prize at a ceremony in Netherlands. The prize is awarded every year to a child, for his or her dedication to children’s rights.

3. Shubham Banerjee
Shubham Banerjee A combination of curiosity and empathy led this 13-year-old to build his own company in the Silicon Valley.

Shubham created a Braille printer with a Lego robotics kit as a school science fair project for his seventh grade after he asked his parents a simple question “How do blind people read?”. “Google it,” they replied. On doing so, he realized that embossers(Braille printers) sell at prices starting from $1,800 which is extremely high for most blind readers, especially in developing countries.

In his effort to help these people, he spent many sleepless nights and developed a low-cost embosser. He then went on to launch a company to develop low-cost machine to print Braille and named it Braigo Labs. He got funding from Intel  and became the youngest entrepreneur to receive funding.