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Figuring on the list is Rohan M Ganapathy, an engineer from Coimbatore’s Hindusthan College, who along with his friend Yashas Karanam, founded Bellatrix Aerospace, a developmental order from the Indian Space Research Organisation that researches satellite propulsion and rocket propulsion.
“Considering our age, no one could believe we could come up with something so technically challenging. But you try more and you get the results. That is the case with every researcher,” said 25-yearold Ganapathy, a native of Ooty and CEO of the company, which is planning to raise $3.5 million by May 2018.
Two graduates from IIT Madras, Satish Kannan and Enbasekar Dinadayalane, also find their names in the list, for building a mobile app DocsApp, which would connect patients to specialist doctors. “The real problem in health care was to make specialist doctors accessible to people across the country,” 28-year-old Kannan was quoted
as saying on the Forbes website. The app is a digital platform with a curated list of more than 2,000 specialist doctors.
Another IIT-M graduate, 27-year-old Rohit Ramasubramanian is mentioned in the list along with his former colleagues Karan Gupta and Himesh Joshi from the Boston Consulting Group in Mumbai, who all joined together to launch Zefo, that buys products directly from consumers before refurbishing and selling them. “It is an operationally complex business. Not everyone believed that it was going to be the next big thing,” said chief executive Ramasubramanian.
Bollywood actors Bhumi Pednekar, Mithila Palkar and Vicky Kaushal are the entertainers in this prestigious list, which is spread exhaustively across 15 categories. Fast-medium bowler Jasprit Bumrah, pistol shooter Heena Sidhu, hockey goalkeeper Savita Punia, women’s team cricketer Harmanpreet Kaur, singer and song writer Jubin Nautiyal are some of the other names.
The names have been selected depending upon three broad criteria - the extent of impact of their achievements, their ability to disrupt the status quo, scalability of the business or line of work and their potential to stay a long-term player, stated Forbes.
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