Infosys cofounder recently teamed up with Ratan Tata, former chairman of the Tata Group, to start Avanti Finance, which will provide microloans to the poor. Nilekani, who is credited with building Aadhar, India's identity card scheme, while chairman of the Unique Identity Authority of India, has backed several startups, including auto parts maker Sedemac Mechatronics, whose founders studied at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, his alma mater.