Animesh Kumar, 29, ISB

Last month, the company raised a couple of million dollars through private equity funds—"they don’t normally fund start-ups but did so in our case given our academic qualification and overseas experience and attitude". The other two partners in the company are Shashank Kabra, an IIT Bombay graduate, and Kunal Sharma of IIT Delhi. "In five years, we will be the number one in the IP space, like Infosys is in the IT space. In India we are growing through training. Just this month, we have been able to get a mobile commerce company as a client after a month’s training, largely through education on why it is important to have patent registration." Aggressively hiring from IITs, i-runway is planning to double its staff strength from the existing 20 currently.