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

Feb 09, 2022, 19:14 IST5 min

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Rahul Jain (28), brand and creative strategist, Sideways Consulting, from mentoring startups in the first cohort of Flipkart"s accelerator programme, to disrupting movie marketing and trailer formats for animation films like Incredibles 2, he has done it all.

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Neetu Yadav and Kirti Jangra"s easy to use mobile app, Animall, empowers farmers to start their own dairy farms by gaining access to quality cattle efficiently and quickly. With this online cattle trading platform, they are on their way to disrupting the dairy farming business in India.

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Viraj Mithani (28) works with a mix of painting and print making, and has had a slew of group and solo exhibitions across US, London, Sweden, and Mumbai. He has has taught at SAIC in Chicago, his alma mater, and at the Chicago Public Library.

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MinionLabs" Gokul Shrinivas is disrupting commercial energy conservation with his palm-sized Minion device. It has enabled lifetime savings of 5.25 mn kWh of electricity and reduced 3,712 metric tonnes of CO2.

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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 raised by the Class of 2022.

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The debut winners are the cofounders of Instadapp, Sowmay and Samyak Jain, brothers who dropped out of college to build a decentralised finance (DeFi) protocol. Instadapp lets users lend, borrow or earn interest in savings-like accounts.

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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 to develop five war-torn cities.

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Khyati Trehan (29) loves whipping up visuals from nothing using 3D design, and uses it with type design to make meaning of things.

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26-year-old Shlok Srivastava, popularly known as Tech Burner, has 7.5 million subscribers on his eponymous YouTube channel, and his videos garner a viewership of 50 million every month.

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24-year-old Dr Trinetra Haldar Gummaraju is Karnataka"s first openly transgender doctor and an LGBTQIA+ advocate who throws light on gender, sexuality, queerphobia, bullying, mental health, and feminism.

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