Posted and selected by Shruti Rajagopalan:
Lakshay Taneja is an inventor and entrepreneur with a background in blockchain and AI. He received an EV grant to develop his project that aims to use ocean and sea energy to generate electricity.
Madhulash K. Babu he is a 24 year old entrepreneur and electronics engineer and the founder of Edodwaja. He received his EV grant to develop a flowbus/lab on wheels to bring the latest technology to schools allowing students to have a STEM lab experience.
Ryan Nadar is an engineering student and received his EV grant for his research on ion batteries.
Samay Sanghvi is something a 17-year-old self-taught engineer from Mumbai. He got his EV funding to develop gliders to generate electricity in high altitude winds, his startup Alteon Energy aims to generate 7.5Mw/h for just $12m (about 4.5x cheaper than solar in India).
Divyanshu Dembi he’s an unscrupulous lawyer and writes on Impatiently Curious. He received EV funding for his podcast Jack of all things knowledge and people doing interesting projects in the fields of law, policy, art and technology.
Sriram Kuchimanchi is a social entrepreneur and founder of Smart Dharma. He received an EV Grant to build India’s first data-driven open platform for sustainable building materials and solutions that can help decarbonize the construction 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 people cover their last mile, by making walking more fun and the preferred way to travel.
Akshin Makkar is a 17-year-old from Toronto, Canada, building a drone-related app to help farmers with soil weed problems in the agricultural area.
Nikhil Garg is a 15-year-old high school dropout who has been working as a software engineer for the past four years. He got his EV funding to develop his startup bytecubetech. He also works at 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 a multi-device charging station system to improve access to electricity in underserved areas in rural India.
Moksh Soni is a 20-year-old founder from Mandi, Himachal Pradesh. As a teenager, he made an electrolyzer by stripping a bus tire for rubber and cutting old metal plates in his mother’s kitchen. He got his EV India grant to design a small electrolyzer, in the lab, and hopes to produce a high yield of hydrogen.
Amanjot Singh again Sehaj Pasricha they are 19-year-old AI engineers. Badal Pankani, and at the age of 19, he worked as an engineer and designer, and ran a natural science society. They got their EV funding to move to Bangalore and start Wayfarers Space, their startup that aims to create a social space for those on unconventional paths.
Indraneel S. Bankapure is a journalist and psychiatrist from Kolhapur, Maharashtra. His organization Virasat: Indian Heritage Initiative hopes to present the wonders of Indian culture to the world. He received his EV grant to develop a machine learning tool that will help identify and recreate images in their original glory.
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