Born to a poor farmer couple in Machilipatnam, a city in Andhra Pradesh in 1992 Bolla was visually impaired from birth. The villagers called his birth sin and suggested his parents smother him to death.
19-year-old Kaivalya Vohra, Co-founder and CTO of the grocery delivery startup "Zepto" clinches the networth of 1,000 crores in IIFL Wealth Hurun India Rich List 2022.
Nanma Gireesh and Ben K George are the founders of the Kerala-based startup NestAbide that engineers amphibious buildings that float in flood water. In 2018, it was destructive monsoon days in Kerala that led to tragic floods that took the lives of more than 400 people, and thousands of families lost their hard-earned houses.
The Bangalore based couple invested Rs 8 lakh to launch Swa Juicery in 2015 and Swa Artisanal Syrups in 2019. So far, the company has taken care of more than 10,000 orders and made Rs 4 crore revenue.
On Tuesday, Alkesh Kumar Sharma, the secretary of the Ministry of Electronics and IT (Meity), announced that the government aims to promote more than 10,000 startups in the next 5–6 years under the GENESIS programme.