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Rajlakshmi Borthakur
Age: 41
Founder and CEO, TerraBlue XT
Necessity is truly the mother of invention, especially in the case of Rajlakshmi Borthakur. An IT engineer by profession, Borthakur decided to become a self-taught expert on neurology to understand her son’s epilepsy. Years of research and desperation led her to set up Bengaluru-based TerraBlue XT in 2016. “Soon after my son was born in 2011, I started reading papers, journals and medical books on neurology. With some knowledge on how the brain works, and my fair understanding in electronics, I came up with a concept of the device and then hired a fresher to help create a prototype,” says the first generation entrepreneur.
The biomedical wearable ring called TJay, which is yet to be launched commercially, is embedded with sensors, and can predict epilepsy attacks through the patient’s blood pressure and pulse rate. Signals are transmitted in real time for doctors to take the right decisions.
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(This story appears in the 15 March, 2019 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)