Meet the 30 young achievers of 2022

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Akshay Varma (26), Aditya (26) and Anuj Ruia (27), the cofounders of Beco, have created a platform to offer chemical-free, sustainable plant-based alternatives to everyday consumables like detergents, floor cleaners, and more.

Nishant Chandra and Siddharth Maheshwari, both 29, launched Newton School to enable those from Tier I and II cities get industry ready. Their personalised training programmes have helped 1,000 students get technology jobs at an average salary of Rs 7 lakh.

yellow.ai and Rashid Khan have been at the centre of all the action in interactive AI in the past few years. In 2021, it unveiled a voice AI product and wants to expand to new markets this year.

In 5 years, Nimisha Sajayan (25) has worked with several reputed filmmakers, and has delivered four back-to-back successes including The Great Indian Kitchen, Malik, Nayattu, and One.

From 99 percent auditions not leading to a role, to The White Tiger and BAFTA nomination for leading actor, Adarsh Gourav (27) has come a long way. This Drama School Mumbai alumnus is known to deep dive into his onscreen characters.

Mehul Nath Jindal, Eeshan Sharma, both 21, are building a formidable fintech platform at BharatX to provide embedded credit for D2C brands and low-income persons in micro-markets.

At 28, Ria Mirchandani is the product lead for Whatsapp Payments in India—Meta's largest market. She sets the vision and strategy, and has led to a 13x growth in users in one year.

Vidur Gupta and Third Eye Distillery are on a mission to make Indian gins, with locally sourced botanicals and spices. Stranger & Sons is fast becoming an aficionado's favourite.

Tasheen Rahimtoola, 27, is taking her venture Taste Retreat which specialises in experiential gourmet experiences, to new heights. She's expanded from Mumbai to pan-India, Dubai and London.

Jash Shah's Get-A-Whey makes healthy 'protein' ice creams and has clocked Rs 5 crore in revenues so far.

Lawyer turned fashion influencer and supermodel Rahi Chadda (28) was the first brown male ambassador for Dior Beauty, and collaborates with the biggest luxury brands including Armani, Fendi, Prada, and more.

Krishma Shah, founder, CliniBiz is striving to make clinical trials more efficient, and believes new treatments should be accessible to all

Elwinder Singh's Connect and Heal ties up with large companies to provide on-site primary healthcare to employees in metros and far-flung areas. It serves 1.5 million people from 300 corporations.

Pranav Sharma (25) and Felicity Adobe help forge 20-25 year contracts with farmers and solar EPC companies to set up solar power projects in drought-hit areas. Farmers earn a stable income with an annual hike.

AP Dhillon (29) has been stirring up a storm on social media. He released multiple songs during the pandemic and even had a successful first tour. His songs are amongst the most heard on streaming platforms.

Achyuth Jaigopal is the lead guitarist of When Chai Met Toast which is known to evoke deep emotions of happiness, love, joy, celebration, and loss through its songs that often use different languages in one melody.

Donatekart's Sandeep Sharma, Anil Kumar Reddy and Sarang Bobade are building the ecommerce of giving—providing keen givers with a shopping list from NGOs. 1 million donors have contributed Rs 150 crore to 1,000 NGOs.

Raju Kendre's Eklavya India mentors students to promote higher education and enables grassroots leadership of first-gen learners like himself. He's currently pursuing development studies at SOAS to hone his craft of making a difference.

At 20, Lakshya Sen is leading the charge for Indian men's badminton on the world stage. He's the youngest Indian to qualify for BWF World Tour Finals, and won a bronze at BWF World Championships like his mentor Prakash Padukone.

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, Vandana Katariya (29) is a "true fighter", Mir Ranjan Negi, former assistant coach of the team says.