They are passionate and formidable bunch, and for good reason, says Forbes.
Five Indian Americans have been featured in the Forbes Magazine’s list of 30 under 30 in consumer technology category.
The list brings 30 game changers in 20 industries all under 30 years old — 600 in total — who are challenging the conventional wisdom and rewriting the rules for the next generation of entrepreneurs, entertainers, educators and more.
“They are passionate and formidable bunch, and for good reason. Their goal is nothing short of breaking the status quo and transforming the world,†said Forbes.
The Indian Americans on the list include Shruti Merchant, Sneha Keshwani, Sundeep Kumar, Abhishek Chandra, and Arun Saigal.
Shruti Merchant found the startup HubHaus along with Kerry Jones in early 2016 with the goal of making it easy for professionals to find community in shared housing.
When Shruti Merchant dropped out of medical school to found her first startup, she moved to Silicon Valley and struggled to find affordable housing and community. This inspired the Fremont, Calif., native to start HubHaus.
HubHaus has raised about $1.5 million and now has more than 300 members in more than 50 homes in the Bay Area and Los Angeles.
Sneha Keshwani, a product manager at LinkedIn, runs global mobile growth and engagement for LinkedIn, leading projects across India, Germany, China and the US, which have resulted in double-digit increases in engagement since 2016.
Keshwani, who was born in Dubai, is also responsible for securing large partnerships with OEMs and carriers such as Samsung, LG, Sony, and Verizon, with goals to bring the LinkedIn app to more than 400 million professionals worldwide by 2019.
By connecting student renters to apartment buildings looking to fill leases, Sundeep Kumar made it to the Forbes list. He along with Sam Bernstein founded LoftSmart which is already called the ‘future of renting.’
More than 250,000 leases are available to instantly book on the website and the company takes a percentage cut of each lease booked. LoftSmart has processed millions in lease transactions already and raised $5 million from investors.
Abhishek Chandra, who co-founded Spring Health at Yale University after learning that fewer than one in eight people diagnosed with depression get adequate treatment.
Spring Health offers a mental health tool for large employers that screens employees for mental illness, develop personalized, data-driven treatment plans based on peer-reviewed algorithms and connects employees to a provider within a week through a video psychiatry platform.
Arun Saigal’s Thunkable democratizes app creation by making it easy for people around the globe to build both Android and iOS apps, regardless of programming experience. He co-founded the app creation tool along with WeiHua Li.