Hailing from Hyderabad, the five incredible stories reached the worldwide summit of ‘Forbes 30 under 30 Asia 2020’ list. Apart from America, Forbes also annually recognizes the exemplary entrepreneurs across Asia, Europe and Africa. It considers thirty winners among 20 varied categories of industries. The 2020 year has witnessed around 3500 nominations. From among 300 from Asia alone and 69 from India, five have made a ground-breaking achievement under Forbes. These Entrepreneurs have extraordinarily acted upon the time and mindfully embarked to solve the Global growing issues. Hyderabad Angels recognized these startups and founders and saw a potential opportunity for HA to mentor and nurture such companies being from Hyderabad.
The five young entrepreneurs have proved their excellence beyond age for innovation and business. The five Hyderabad companies which walked the path of selection included Marut Drone tech, Urban Kisaan, Skyroot Aerospace, Thick Shake Factory and Adono Mo.
Hyderabad Entrepreneurs in Forbes List
The five young heroes have certainly brought honor to Hyderabad City and an inspiration to thousands of aspiring Hyderabad entrepreneurs.
- Prem Kumar and Marut Dronetech: Prem Kumar Vislawath, Suraj Peddi and Sai Kumar Chinthala the three musketeers of IIT- Guwahati founded the Hyderabad-based Marut Dronetech in 2019. Marut as the name suggests has a mythological significance with the ‘Gods of winds’ and drones gaining mastery over flying in skies. India’s first ever dronetech to startup with the intention to tackle the existing mosquito issue and water hyacinths in lakes. Now, this smart initiative is striving to help cope with the coronavirus in the state in collaboration with the Telangana Government. Marut’s Drones facilitate spraying disinfectants especially in the area where people are tested COVID-19 positive and public arenas like hospitals, bus-stations, auto-stands, markets, and so on. In the words of the co-founder and CEO, Prem, ‘Drones work like Game changers during this pandemic’. There are various drones serving different purposes like Thermal analysis Drone, Medical delivery Drone and Eye in the sky, a real-time surveillance Drone. Drones have the ability to disinfect 50 times better than traditional methods.
- Ashwin Mocherla and The ThickShake Factory: He is another vibrant entrepreneur is the co-founder of the India’s premium brand of ThickShake factory. The brand is best-known for its innovative concept of shakes. Started its journey in 2013 in the City of Pearls. Today it has expanded more than 65 stores across India. Its future plans are destined to have over 500 stores in the three consecutive years. At present, TSF is functioning in 12 Indian Cities and additionally in California, USA. The brand has won several accolades until today.
- Sandeep Bommi reddi: He is an inspiring leader is the co-founder of India-based Adonmo, an adtech startup grounded in assisting Advertisers in achieving target audience by way of outdoors such as display ads on digital screens attached at the top of the taxis based on time and location.
- Vihari Kanukollu: He is the mastermind of modern farming called hydroponic farming. The Hyderabad-based startup Urban Kisaan Company was developed in 2017. It is known for its indoor vertical farms built to cultivate pesticide-free yield. These are later sold to consumers based on subscriptions or walk-ins. It uses comparatively 95% less water and its crop yield exceeds 30 times more than the traditional farming. Here, the plants are grown using the Hydroponic farming method. This type of farming is suitable for urban areas. These vertically grown plants don’t require soil and use water including mineral nutrient solutions. It also got selected for Y Combinator’s Winter 2020 Batch.
- Pawan Kumar Chandana: He is the co-founder of the company Skyroot Aerospace along with former ISRO colleagues namely Pawan KumarChandana, NagaBharath Daka and Vasudevan Gnanagandhi including a small group of entrepreneurs. Established in 2017 Skyroot is a Hyderabad based company oriented towards launching small-lift rockets. It is one of its kind privately believed company for building space rockets in India. It looks forward to launching its first rocket in 2021 to include commercial satellites into space. Earlier Pawan Kumar worked under Government based Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) as a Systems Engineer.
Besides these, there are several change-makers who have made it to the list of Forbes 30 under 30 Asia.
Every year Forbes studies several nominees and recognizes Frontiers who outshines the crowd. The secret of this amazing event is to recognize the talent of the Indian Youth who create a legacy in the business world across different professionals ranging from technology, healthcare, finance, science, media, design, fashion, sports, entertainment, and likewise. Here is a rich opportunity for the aspiring Entrepreneurs to be at the pinnacle of the Forbes list of innovators.
