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Sanjay Vijayakumar | 30
Tech entrepreneur
While pursuing BTech at the University of Kerala, Sanjay Vijayakumar co-founded Torque Technology Solutions, a mobile tech startup. That evolved to MobME Wireless Solutions, a mobile internet company, in 2006. It focuses on mobile value added services and carrier grade solutions for network operators, and was rated among India’s 100 innovative startups by Nasscom. Its clients and partners include Vodafone, Airtel, NDTV and Café Coffee Day. The company also works with several state governments as well as central government departments including the Department of Science and Technology. Besides his own company, Vijayakumar has also been involved in creating a globally competitive startup ecosystem in India. He is the chairman (and one of the brains) of Startup Village, a Kochi-based not-for-profit technology business incubator, which is run on a private-public-partnership (PPP) model. Launched in 2012, Startup Village aims to build 1,000 technology product companies in the next 10 years.
(This story appears in the 20 February, 2015 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)