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Post and selection by Shruti Rajagopalan:
Lakshay Taneja is an innovator and entrepreneur with a background in blockchain and AI. He received an EV grant to develop his project aiming to harness ocean and tidal energy to generate electricity.
Madhulash K. Babu is a 24-year-old entrepreneur and electronics engineer and the founder of Edodwaja. He received his EV grant to develop flowbus/lab on wheels to bring the latest technology to schools allowing students to have hands-on STEM lab experiences.
Ryan Nadar is an engineering student and received his EV grant for his research on ion batteries.
Samay Sanghvi is a 17-year-old self-taught engineer from Mumbai. He received his EV grant to develop gliders to generate electricity from high altitude winds, at his start-up Alteon Energy which aims to generate 7.5Mw/h with just $12m (about 4.5x cheaper than solar in India).
Divyanshu Dembi is an antitrust lawyer and writes at Impatiently Curious. He received the EV grant for his podcast Jack of all knowledge with people doing interesting projects in the field of law, policy, arts and technology.
Sriram Kuchimanchi is a social entrepreneur and the founder of Smarter Dharma. He received an EV Grant to build India’s first data-driven open platform for sustainable materials and solutions which can help accelerate the decarbonising of the building industry from the design stage.
Junaid Ahmed is a 21-year-old entrepreneur and founder of WalkingPal – the world’s first walking buddy app – with a mission to change the way how people cover their last mile, by making walking more fun and the preferred way to commute.
Akshin Makkar is a 17-year-old from Toronto, Canada, building a drone-related application to help farmers with ground-weed problems in an agricultural setting.
Nikhil Garg is a 15-year-old high-school dropout working as a software engineer for the last four years. He received his EV grant to develop his startup bytecubetech. He is also working on Advisely, to help students who wish to study abroad.
Ayush Chauhan is a high-school student and young entrepreneur who was awarded an EV grant to expand multi-device charging station system to improve electricity access in underserved areas in rural India.
Moksh Soni is a 20-year-old innovator from Mandi, Himachal Pradesh. As a teenager, he made an electrolyzer by stripping a bus tire for rubber and cutting up some old steel plates from his mother’s kitchen. He received his EV India grant to design a relatively smaller electrolyzer, in a lab, and hopes to produce greater yields of hydrogen.
Amanjot Singh and Sehaj Pasricha are 19-year-old AI engineers. Badal Panchani, also 19, has worked as a developer and designer, and ran a natural science community. They received their EV grant to move to Bangalore and start Wayfarers Space, their start-up which aims to create a social environment for those on unconventional paths.
Indraneel S. Bankapure is a journalist and indologist from Kolhapur, Maharashtra. His organization Virasat: Indian Heritage Initiative hopes to introduce the wonders of Indian culture to the world. He received his EV grant to develop a machine learning tool which will help identify and recreate sculptures in their original glory.
Those unfamiliar with Emergent Ventures can learn more here and here. The EV India announcement is here. More about the winners of EV India second cohort, third cohort, fourth cohort, and fifth cohort. To apply for EV India, use the EV application, click the “Apply Now” button and select India from the “My Project Will Affect” drop-down menu.
If you are interested in supporting the India tranche of Emergent Ventures, please write to me or to Shruti at [email protected].
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