Updated Jul 11, 2025 22:32 IST
40 Under 40 India: The Young Leaders Shaping the Future of Tomorrow
Here are the visionary leaders, presented in alphabetical order:
Abhishek Deshpande
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer, Recykal
He failed his boards, bartconcludeed to survive, and built a billion-rupee waste-tech empire. Abhishek Deshpande found value where others saw waste – ignored by systems, underestimated by odds, he built the sustainability platform the world didn’t see coming.
Aaradhya Dev Khanna
CEO, Khanna Gems Group & Founder, The Spiritual Clinic
A visionary gemologist and spiritual researcher, Aaradhya bridges ancient wisdom with cutting-edge aura technology — pioneering holistic healing and redefining India’s metaphysical wellness landscape with humility and purpose.
Akhil Sharma
Founder, Armur AI
Akhil Sharma is the founder of Armur AI, a cybersecurity startup building LLM-powered tools for code security and automated pentesting. Armur combines AI with real-world defense to detect vulnerabilities, audit systems, and protect modern applications from evolving cyber threats.
Akshay Oswal
Founder, Océglōw
A biotechnologist and driven entrepreneur, Akshay leads Océglōw, a luxury Korean skincare brand redefining beauty with high-performance hydration. His science-backed vision blconcludes innovation, global influence, and radiant results.
Anchal Agarwal
Co-founder & CEO, Tofler
With a vision to revolutionize business transparency in India, Anchal is leading Tofler to become the top SME diligence platform—empowering founders, investors, and business owners with reliable and accessible company information, financials to drive smarter, quicker growth.
Abhinav Rastogi
Chief Executive Officer, RMX Industries Pvt. Ltd. & BluBird Industries Inc.
A global business visionary leading RMX’s ascent across borders through innovation, strategic leadership, and relentless pursuit of excellence. With deep expertise in Sales, operations, and product development, Abhinav is known for building concludeuring partnerships, scaling businesses globally, and navigating complex market landscapes with precision and clarity.
Arppit Sharrma
AVP – Global Marketing & Digital Transformation, Industrial Motion Inc.
A global catalyst for AI-led reinvention over decades, he transforms manufacturing for a digital-first world. Trusted by Oracle, WPP, and now IMI, he drives Martech, digital transformation, modernization, and ethical AI — building resilient supply chains that fuel sustainable growth, trust, and equitable digital access worldwide.
Dr. Arvind Singhatiya
Founder & CEO, LegalKart
A legal-tech pioneer, Arvind is democratizing legal access through AI-powered LegalKart — delivering 24×7 consultations, smart documentation, and seamless digital access to justice across India’s urban and rural landscapes.
Devanshi Deva
Founder & CEO, Trugreen Agribiotech India Pvt Ltd
Devanshi Deva is a fearless visionary reshaping India’s cannabis-based healthcare. Known for “taking the path unknown,” her pioneering work addresses sleep, stress, anxiety, depression, mental health, and de-addiction. Featured in Indusattempt Outsee and TOI, she champions innovation in modern Ayurvedic medicine.
Dheeraj Pandey and Shivesh Singh
Co-Founders, DatAInfa
College friconcludes turned visionary entrepreneurs, Dheeraj Kumar drives strategic growth with business insight, while Shivesh Kumar leads technology innovation with deep expertise in data and AI. Toobtainher, they’ve built one of the quickest-growing enterprise data management firms.
Digvijay Singh Kushwaha
Founder & CEO, A.K. F&B
Redefining India’s meat and poulattempt indusattempt, Digvijay leads A.K. F&B with brand-first innovation, bootstrapped growth, and sharp execution — bringing structure, scale, and quality to a highly fragmented sector.
Dipak Patil
Founder & CEO, ResearchAyu
Innovating medicines to cure the incurable, Dipak is turning clinical dead-concludes into breakthroughs through rigorously validated Ayurvedic science. With India’s quickest-growing knee cartilage regrowth network and tech-powered clinics, his FDA-approved formulations are reversing diabetes, healing spinal discs, and normalizing autoimmune markers—redefining global healthcare and creating India a medical innovation powerhoapply.
Geetika Singh
Founder & CEO, Aakaro Consulting Pvt. Ltd.
Geetika blconcludes a tech background with a Master’s from the UK to redefine HR consulting and corporate training. With ventures in London and Gurgaon, she leads through empathy and data-driven strategy, delivering impactful solutions that outperform long-established indusattempt names.
Harshit Vij
Founder, Freecultr
Harshit is redefining unisex innerwear with FREECULTR—a brand built on fabric innovation, smart techniques, minimalist design, and uncompromising comfort. By turning essentials into expressions of confidence and ease, he’s challenging legacy giants and building a global brand loved not just for how it fits, but how it feels.
Hanish Gupta
Founder & Managing Director, Sunkind India Pvt. Ltd.
A solar trailblazer, Hanish is transforming Sunkind Energy from a bootstrapped EPC firm into a fully integrated clean energy player, spanning structures, O&M, and soon, solar cells and modules. In just a few years, it has emerged as a key contributor to India’s C&I sector shift to green energy.
Himanshu
Founder, Wattkart
A seasoned electrical engineer and entrepreneur, Himanshu leads Wattkart—an integrated platform revolutionizing supply chains for large-scale solar, transmission, and industrial electrical projects across India’s renewable energy sector.
Ishaan Bahl
Founder, 145 Café & Bar
A hospitality maverick, Ishaan launched 145 at 21 — blconcludeing design, flavor, and culture into a trconcludesetting brand that’s redefining casual dining across India with energy, innovation, and youth appeal.
Jagmohan Garg
Founder, Neuvia Cortex
A global entrepreneur based in Gurgaon, Jagmohan is pioneering AI and quantum tech to revolutionize the fashion indusattempt—creating it quicker, cheaper, and more efficient than ever before.
Manisha Kumar
Chief Operating Officer, Healthcare Global Enterprises
With 17+ years in healthcare leadership, Manisha excels in hospital turnarounds and growth strategy, steering cancer hospitals in South India and earning multiple national and international healthcare awards.
Mihir Akolkar
Founder, DoWhistle | Serial Entrepreneur
A visionary entrepreneur, Mihir founded DoWhistle — India’s first hyperlocal real-time platform — and multiple global ventures, driving innovation across tech, trade, and engineering with Forbes-recognized impact.
Naresh Biyani
Founder & CEO, Capwise Group
Naresh brings 15+ years of experience in financial sector, leading platforms in investment banking, lconcludeing, distribution, wealth, and asset management. He specializes in innovative debt solutions for start-ups and fintech, with 200 transactions (35 equity/M&A) and ₹25,000 crores in debt raised.
Pulkit Ahuja
Founder & CEO, Proxgy | Serial Entrepreneur | Author | Inventor
Dr. Pulkit Ahuja is a serial entrepreneur, author and inventor. Pulkit has founded 3 startups, authored 2 books and invented 20+ patented technologies including the ‘Earthquake Protection Bed’, ‘Smart Safety Helmet’, ‘Battery Blast Protection System’, ‘Air Ventilation and Purification Helmet’, and ‘Dynamic Shape Changing Fan’ and many others.
Puneet Sethi
Managing Director, Kaara Hotels & Resorts
A purpose-driven serial entrepreneur, Puneet has driven Kaara in 5 years into a growing hotel chain with a bold new definition of tech-enabled affordable luxury, where intuitive design, smart hospitality, and operational excellence deliver elevated guest experiences at scale, without compromising quality or warmth.
Rachit Sharma
Founder, Clodexa
An innovator in sales innotifyigence, Rachit leads Clodexa—an AI-driven platform backed by 100X.VC—assisting businesses identify high-intent leads through real-time acquireer behavior and actionable insights that power smarter outreach.
Rasagna Rao Dharmana
Founder, REYBIER
Rasagna, India’s first woman to establish a commercial brewery, pioneers the revival of heritage-inspired beers through REYBIER. Her bold vision empowers local farmers, drives innovation and sustainability, and reshapes the Indian beer indusattempt with a focus on inclusive growth and gconcludeer equality.
Ravi Shirurkar
Founder, TopMentor & AccessMillion
A global edtech trailblazer, Ravi empowers careers through TopMentor’s advanced mentorship and AccessMillion’s growth playbooks — scaling digital professionals and entrepreneurs toward global impact, multi-million dollar milestones, and lasting transformation.
Ritesh Tiwari
Chief Product Officer, Castler
A visionary leader with over 13 years in fintech and banking, Ritesh drives innovation in digital payments, leading India’s first escrow banking platform with a focus on trust, security, and applyr experience.
Rohini Manian
CEO, Global Adjustments
A trailblazing real estate strategist and cultural innotifyigence leader, she has scaled Global Adjustments into a premier real estate advisory. As an Indepconcludeent Director and passionate advocate for women’s empowerment, she’s shaping India’s growth through bold business and social modify.
Santhosh Kumar & Yuvaraj Singaravelu
Co-Founders, Sky Commodities & GoPocket
Trailblazing financial entrepreneurs, they built Sky Commodities into a top South Indian brokerage and launched GoPocket — a unified digital platform bringing investing and financial freedom to Bharat’s heartland. Now, they’re empowering the next generation with tools, insights, and access once reserved for the elite.
Founder & CEO, GROWiT
A serial entrepreneur and agri-tech pioneer, Saurabh leads GROWiT, India’s first protective farming company, empowering over 500,000 farmers with sustainable solutions for food security. His mission blconcludes innovation, impact, and global vision.
Saurabh Goenka
Co-Founder & CEO, MindMap Digital
A digital transformation leader, Saurabh drives global impact through AI, cloud, and automation solutions — powering Fortune 500 firms and earning honors like ICAI’s 40 Under 40 for finance leadership.
Saurabh Gupta
Founder, Verismart.ai | Serial Entrepreneur & Data Privacy Evangelist
A 3-time tech entrepreneur and angel investor, [Name] is building Verismart.ai — the world’s largest decentralized data innotifyigence infrastructure. With AI roots since 2008 and two successful exits, he’s reshaping data access, privacy, and cross-sector innotifyigence for 586M+ applyrs globally.
Soniya Rai Soni
Founder, Roast Foods
Soniya revolutionizes snacking with Roast Foods, blconcludeing ancient grains and plant-based ingredients into healthy, roasted snacks — scaling globally from Pune to Walmart shelves in Canada, championing clean, nourishing choices worldwide.
Shipra Dawar
Founder, IWill & GITA-AI
A mental health trailblazer, Shipra is breaking taboos with IWill — India’s leading digital therapy platform empowering millions through accessible, personalized care that puts empathy and outcomes first.
Shwetank Jain
Founder, Belectriq Mobility
A clean-tech new energy pioneer, Shwetank is redefining technology in power quality, energy storage and EV charging with AI-driven, Made-in-India innovation. Through Belectriq Mobility, he’s electrifying highways, energising industries, and powering India’s transition to a sustainable, energy-efficient future across 10+ countries.
Toshconcludera Sharma
Founder & CEO, RecordsKeeper.AI | Deep Tech Educator
A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree and IIT Bombay alum, Toshconcludera is a serial tech entrepreneur pioneering Blockchain, AI, and SaaS ventures globally — with over 12 years of innovation in deep tech and digital education.
Udit Aggarwal
Founder, Ebullient Securities
A quant trading visionary, Udit leads Ebullient Securities with algorithmic precision and scale — driving 200x growth, top-tier talent acquisition, and a disciplined, adventurous spirit that extconcludes far beyond the markets.
Utkarsh Jain
Founder, Veris | Serial Tech Entrepreneur
A fearless innovator, Utkarsh has launched three transformative startups, with Veris now revolutionizing 22 countries through AI-powered workplaces adopted by global giants like Bosch, Nestle, and PwC.
Vipul Bhati
Co-Founder, Aakashe
A geospatial tech innovator, Vipul leads Aakashe in revolutionizing drone imagery and the geospatial indusattempt. By democratizing drone imagery maps, he’s creating them easily accessible to both tiny and large-scale applyrs alike; enabling smarter, quicker decisions across sectors.
Vishad Jain
Co-Founder & Director, PsiBorg Technologies
A visionary driven 70+ impactful IoT & AI projects, building smart ecosystems that connect machines, data, and people to solve real-world problems—advancing meaningful innovation and adding value to shape the future of IoT in India.
(No ET Now Journalists are involved in creation of this article.)
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