Akshay Agrawal

Akshay Agrawal

Agrawal at the TEDxOIS conference in January 2016
Born 1998 (age 17–18)
Residence California
Nationality Indian
Alma mater Avalon Heights International School
Occupation Entrepreneur

Akshay Agrawal is an Indian first-generation entrepreneur. Born in 1998[1] in India, he founded two companies – Ukhadlo and ClassFever. He started his first company when he was 16. He is also a two-time TEDx speaker.

Education

Akshay studied at Avalon Heights International School[2] and is currently a student at ArtCenter College of Design[3] in California.[4]

Ukhadlo

Agrawal founded Ukhadlo when he was 16 years old. Ukhadlo is an online social Networking platform for entrepreneurs, investors, accelerators and incubators. Ukhadlo allows potential co-founders to connect and ideate collaboratively. Ukhadlo was featured in the Hindustan Times[5] and The Economic Times[6] among others.[7] Agrawal spoke about his journey with Ukhadlo at a TEDx event in Mumbai[8][9][10] and Pune[11][12] and at Brainstorm.[13]

TEDx speaker

Agrawal spoke at two TEDx events in India – TEDxUWCMC at UWC Mahindra United World College, Pune[14] and TEDxYouth at Oberoi International School, Mumbai.[15] Agrawal's talk at TEDxYouth@OIS has over 22,000 views.[8] Agrawal also spoke at an event ("Brainstorm") at Bombay Scottish School.[13]

ClassFever

Agrawal founded ClassFever when he was 17[2] and faced trouble switching schools after 10th grade. ClassFever was originally a school review aggregation platform but soon pivoted to an open source crowdsourced big data school ranking platform. ClassFever computes 200 million data sets to rank schools[16] and open sources the data it used as a basis to rank all schools. Agrawal collected his friends over the school break to help grow the company faster and organised them into the "Alpha Team".[3][17][18] ClassFever rankings are live and are refreshed at an undisclosed interval. ClassFever generates revenue by offering consultancy services to schools apart from Ranking Certifications. Agrawal spoke about ClassFever at both the TEDx talks and at Brainstorm.[9][11][13] ClassFever has been well received by the media including Yahoo[19] and Mid Day,[3] and it is ranked well.[2][20][21][1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "This 17 Year's Zomato For Schools Onboards 3000 Schools In Seven Months". The Startup Journal. 2015-09-05. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  2. 1 2 3 "This 17-Year-Old Solely Created A 'Zomato' For Schools, Tutors and Coaching Institutes". IndianWeb2. 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  3. 1 2 3 Das, Kusumita (23 October 2016). "A class apart". Mid Day. pp. 28–29. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
  4. ↑ "This 18-Year-Old Started a Zomato for Schools to Help Students & Their Parents Find Good Schools". The Better India. 2016-10-12. Retrieved 2016-11-23.
  5. ↑ "I no longer address my clients as uncle or aunty". Hindustan Times. 1 June 2014.
  6. ↑ "Make Me a Match...". The Times Group. 6 June 2014. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  7. ↑ "Akshay Agarwal, a 16-year-old entrepreneur talks about his crowdfunding platform Ukhadlo.com". startoholics.in. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  8. 1 2 Lie and lie till you succeed, TEDx Talks, 2016-04-15, retrieved 2016-10-08 – via YouTube
  9. 1 2 "TEDxYouth@OIS". TED.com. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  10. ↑ "TEDxYouth@OIS". Archived from the original on 2016-03-19. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  11. 1 2 "TEDxUWCMC". TED.com. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  12. ↑ "TEDx UWCMC: Shifting Lenses". uwcmahindracollege.org. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  13. 1 2 3 "Brainstorm 2016". Retrieved 2016-10-08 – via Facebook.
  14. ↑ "Lie and lie till you succeed | Akshay Agarwal | TEDxYouth@OIS". TEDxTalks. Retrieved 2016-10-27.
  15. ↑ "Startup Culture in India | Akshay Agarwal | TEDxUWCMC". TEDxTalks. Retrieved 2016-10-27.
  16. ↑ "A 18-Year-Old Started a Zomato for Schools to Help Students & Parents Find Good Schools". The Ideal Indian. 2016-10-14. Retrieved 2016-11-23.
  17. ↑ "This 18-Year-Old Started a Zomato for Schools to Help Students & Their Parents Find Good Schools". Retrieved 2016-10-13.
  18. ↑ Soni, Drishti (2016-06-15). "Make Way For The Alpha Teens". Retrieved 2016-10-12 – via Medium.
  19. ↑ "This 18-Year-Old Started a Zomato for Schools to Help Students & Their Parents Find Good Schools". Retrieved 2016-12-01.
  20. ↑ "Meet The 10 Startups That Made It To #StartupPulse Mumbai Edition". Inc42 Media. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  21. ↑ "Classfever.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors". Alexa. Retrieved 2016-10-08.

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