Abhay Singhal

On Friday evening, IIT-Kanpur conferred distinguished alumnus award upon on seven ex-students.The award was received by four ex-students (out of seven) present during the function.

Discussing mental health is no longer a taboo but it is a problem that is now being realized especially amongst youngsters. And unlike earlier when there was no help available to take note there are now options and a similar initiative is being taken up by abhay singhal a recent pass out from Indian School of Business (ISB) Mohali.

InMobi, the mobile advertising platform that was the first Indian company to touch a billion dollars in valuation early last decade, is planning an IPO in the US in the last quarter of 2021, a source close to the development told TOI.

According to the study, for over 60% of the founders, the current unicorn was the only company they had ever built.

Talgeri (25) and a group of school friends set up Monks On Wheels in December 2015 as a travel agency that curates offbeat trails.

Tewari, an IIT-Kanpur alumnus, founded InMobi in 2007 together with three other IITians, abhay singhal, Amit Gupta, and Mohit Saxena. In 2008 and 2010, it received $15 million in funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sherpalo Ventures, and in 2011, received $200 million from SoftBank.

In a study that lists universities that have produced the most unicorn founders, the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) bagged the fourth spot.

InMobi turned profitable in 2016, making it only the second Indian unicorn (private companies with a valuation of over $1 billion) and one of the first major internet-based ventures in the country to do so.

Not everyone can do what Flipkart founders Sachin and Binny Bansal did — build a $7 billion dollar company before turning 40.