Meet the 30 young achievers of 2022

Forbes India 30 Under 30 recognises young achievers who are breaking the mould to script their own stories. And they epitomise that success can come from anywhere and anyone as long as they are empowe...

By Forbes India
Feb 09, 2022, 19:14 IST5 min
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<p><span class="c-mrkdwn__highlight">Rahul</span> <span class="c-mrkdwn__highlight">Jain</span> (28), brand and creative strategist, Sideways Consulting, from mentoring startups in the fir...
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<p>Neetu Yadav and Kirti Jangra"s easy to use mobile app, <span class="c-mrkdwn__highlight">Animall</span>, empowers farmers to start their own dairy farms by gaining access to quality ca...
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<p>Viraj <span class="c-mrkdwn__highlight">Mithani</span> (28) works with a mix of painting and print making, and has had a slew of group and solo exhibitions across US, London, Sweden, a...
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<p>MinionLabs" <span class="c-mrkdwn__highlight">Gokul</span> Shrinivas is disrupting commercial energy conservation with his palm-sized Minion device. It has enabled lifetime savings of ...
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<p>Under 30 and a unicorn founder, Rajan Bajaj redefines Forbes India 30 Under 30. Slice, 29-year-old entrepreneur"s company, accounts for about 70 percent of the Rs 2,800 crore+ funding ...
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<p>The debut winners are the cofounders of Instadapp, <span class="c-mrkdwn__highlight">Sowmay</span> and Samyak Jain, brothers who dropped out of college to build a decentralised finance ...
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<p>Manushi Ashok Jain (29), an architect and urban planner, has always been motivated by problem-solving and giving back to the community. She worked at the Sasaki project in Afghanistan ...
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<p><span class="c-mrkdwn__highlight">Khyati</span> <span class="c-mrkdwn__highlight">Trehan</span> (29) loves whipping up visuals from nothing using 3D design, and uses it with type design ...
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<p>26-year-old&nbspShlok&nbspSrivastava, popularly known as Tech Burner, has 7.5 million subscribers on his eponymous YouTube channel, and his videos garner a viewership of 50 million eve...
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<p>24-year-old Dr <span class="c-mrkdwn__highlight">Trinetra</span> Haldar Gummaraju is Karnataka"s first openly transgender doctor and an LGBTQIA+ advocate who throws light on gender, sexu...
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<p>Akshay Varma (26), Aditya (26) and Anuj Ruia (27), the cofounders of <span class="c-mrkdwn__highlight">Beco</span>, have created a platform to offer chemical-free, sustainable plant-bas...
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<p>Nishant Chandra and Siddharth Maheshwari, both 29, launched <span class="c-mrkdwn__highlight">Newton</span> School to enable those from Tier I and II cities get industry ready. Their pe...
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<p> and <span class="c-mrkdwn__highlight">Rashid</span> <span class="c-mrkdwn__highlight">Khan</span> have been at the centre of all the action in interactive AI in the past few years. In ...
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<p>In 5 years, <span class="c-mrkdwn__highlight">Nimisha</span> Sajayan (25) has worked with several reputed filmmakers, and has delivered four back-to-back successes including <em>The Gr...
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<p>From 99 percent auditions not leading to a role, to <em>The White Tiger</em> and BAFTA nomination for leading actor, <span class="c-mrkdwn__highlight">Adarsh</span> <span class="c-mrkdwn...
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<p>Mehul Nath Jindal, Eeshan Sharma, both 21, are building a formidable fintech platform at <span class="c-mrkdwn__highlight">BharatX</span> to provide embedded credit for D2C brands and lo...
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<p>At 28, Ria Mirchandani is the product lead for Whatsapp Payments in India&mdashMeta"s largest market. She sets the vision and strategy, and has led to a 13x growth in users in one year...
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<p><span class="c-mrkdwn__highlight">Vidur</span> <span class="c-mrkdwn__highlight">Gupta</span> and Third Eye Distillery are on a mission to make Indian gins, with locally sourced botanic...
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<p><span class="c-mrkdwn__highlight">Tasheen</span> <span class="c-mrkdwn__highlight">Rahimtoola</span>, 27, is taking her venture Taste Retreat which specialises in experiential gourmet ...
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<p><span class="c-mrkdwn__highlight">Jash</span> <span class="c-mrkdwn__highlight">Shah</span>"s Get-A-Whey makes healthy "protein" ice creams and has clocked Rs 5 crore in revenues so far<...
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<p>Lawyer turned fashion influencer and supermodel <span class="c-mrkdwn__highlight">Rahi</span> <span class="c-mrkdwn__highlight">Chadda</span> (28) was the first brown male ambassador for...
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<p><span class="c-mrkdwn__highlight">Krishma</span> <span class="c-mrkdwn__highlight">Shah</span>, founder, CliniBiz is striving to make clinical trials more efficient, and believes new tre...
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<p><span class="c-mrkdwn__highlight">Elwinder</span> <span class="c-mrkdwn__highlight">Singh</span>"s Connect and Heal ties up with large companies to provide on-site primary healthcare t...
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<p><span class="c-mrkdwn__highlight">Pranav</span> <span class="c-mrkdwn__highlight">Sharma</span> (25) and Felicity Adobe help forge 20-25 year contracts with farmers and solar EPC compan...
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<p><span class="c-mrkdwn__highlight">AP</span> <span class="c-mrkdwn__highlight">Dhillon</span> (29) has been stirring up a storm on social media. He released multiple songs during the pan...
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<p>Achyuth Jaigopal is the lead guitarist of When <span class="c-mrkdwn__highlight">Chai</span> Met <span class="c-mrkdwn__highlight">Toast</span> which is known to evoke deep emotions of h...
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<p><span class="c-mrkdwn__highlight">Donatekart</span>"s Sandeep Sharma, Anil Kumar Reddy and Sarang Bobade are building the ecommerce of giving<span><span>&mdash</span></span>providing k...
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<p><span class="c-mrkdwn__highlight">Raju</span> <span class="c-mrkdwn__highlight">Kendre</span>"s Eklavya India mentors students to promote higher education and enables grassroots leader...
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<p>At 20, <span class="c-mrkdwn__highlight">Lakshya</span> <span class="c-mrkdwn__highlight">Sen</span> is leading the charge for Indian men"s badminton on the world stage. He"s the younge...
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<p>Star performer of the India-South Africa match in which she scored a hat-trick and India clinched the fourth place finish at the 2020 Tokyo Games, <span class="c-mrkdwn__highlight">Van...
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