1. Sreedhar Bevara: Founder of Aayu AI, Building the Future of Intelligent Healthcare
Sreedhar Bevara, known for translating innovation into scalable solutions, emerges as a 2025 change maker with Aayu AI, a healthtech-startup incubated at BITS Pilani Dubai. Aayu AI offers a 360-degree dashboard empowering individuals while helping doctors improve patient outcomes through data-driven insights. Recognised by Startup-India and selected by the Department of Science & Technology as a digital health startup to watch in 2025, Aayu AI, with BITSian tech-team, has secured $200K in angel funding and $200K in Google Cloud credits to build its MVP. Author-Entrepreneur Bevara’s leadership in youth-empowerment has earned praise from Prime Minister Modi.
2. Jesicaa Singh, Founder of Stanley Communications
Jesicaa Singh is known for shaping landmark luxury and cultural moments with lasting impact. As Founder of Stanley Communications, she leads one of India’s most dynamic, women-driven PR agencies, spearheading a workforce of over 120 women. Her work spans landmark luxury and cultural milestones, from launching brands like Valentino, Amiri, Aquazzura, and Diptyque in India, to creating iconic moments such as Vivienne Westwood at the Gateway of India and René Caovilla at Milan Fashion Week, to working with global giants like Louis Vuitton and Bvlgari, and most recently opening the doors to the monumental Galeries Lafayette in India.
3. Anupama Dalmia – Founder & Chief Mentor, Beyond the Box
Anupama Dalmia is a multi-award-winning entrepreneur, writer, and creative education specialist reshaping how children in India think, create, and express. Founder of Beyond The Box (BTB), she has mentored 12,000+ children and teens globally. Her accolades include the Karmaveer Chakra Platinum Award, SheThePeople Digital Women Award 2024 (Impact), and the Woman Leadership in Education Award 2025 at the Global LEAP Awards. As National President, WICCI Holistic Child Development Council, she champions youth creativity and parent-school collaboration, building future-ready, empathetic thinkers.
4. Jitin Bhatia, Founder & CEO | Explurger
Jitin Bhatia didn’t build another social media app—he rebuilt its purpose. In a world driven by scrolling and illusion, he founded Explurger, the world’s only social media platform for travelers and explorers, where real journeys matter more than virtual applause. What began as a rebellion against the screen is now a global movement connecting over 18+ million explorers across 75 countries, led by verified creators. From India to the world stage, Bhatia’s vision earned global recognition, including a one-on-one interaction with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the G20 Summit, marking India’s growing leadership in digital innovation.
5. Santosh Kumar Sahu, Co-founder & CEO, GoGreen Warehouses Pvt Limited
Santosh Kumar Sahu, Co-founder & CEO, is a transformative force in India’s agri-warehousing and commodity-backed financing sector. Since founding the company in 2018 with early support from Gujarat-based financiers, he has built a trusted, pan-India platform connecting farmers, traders, banks, and markets. Under his leadership, scientific warehousing and NABL-accredited quality systems now manage 3.5 million MT per month, targeting 5 million MT soon. Commodity-backed financing peaked at ₹6,000 crore last year and is advancing toward ₹10,000 crore. Known for developing future leaders and leveraging digital technology, Santosh blends execution excellence with innovation to strengthen India’s agri value chain.
6. Raghav Bhambri, Co-Owner of TONI&GUY North & West India
Raghav Bhambri, Co-Owner of TONI&GUY across North, North-East, West and Central India, has played a defining role in strengthening the Indian footprint of one of the world’s most influential salon brands. Globally synonymous with fashion, session styling, and technical excellence, TONI&GUY represents a complete salon ecosystem, where precision hairdressing, high-fashion styling, luxury hair and scalp therapies, and science-backed in-salon solutions converge. This is also supported by Label.M, the brand’s official professional haircare range and long-standing sponsor of London Fashion Week, including advanced treatments such as the M-plex Bond Repair Treatment. Raghav has also reinforced the TONI&GUY Academy, embedding education and leadership at scale. His forward vision centres on deeper market expansion, innovation-led services, and building future-ready salon platforms across India.
7. Dheeraj Agrawal, Co-Founder of Social Buzz
Dheeraj Agrawal, Co-Founder of Social Buzz , is recognized as a changemaker in 2025 for reshaping how brands build visibility and demand in an AI-driven digital ecosystem. Moving beyond traditional SEO, he has pioneered Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) to help brands remain discoverable across emerging search and AI platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity. A BITS Pilani alumnus, his expertise spans organic and performance marketing across multiple industries, including a high-impact lead generation campaign for a Dubai-based real estate project—demonstrating how strategic insight, data-led execution, and innovation translate vision into measurable business outcomes.
8. Nitin Jain, CEO and founder of India PR Distribution
Nitin Jain is the CEO and founder of India PR Distribution, India’s top trusted PR agency for press release distribution. Nitin and IPD have played an important part in changing how companies in India use press release distribution services. India PR Distribution is well-known for its wide range of publication reach and economical PR packages. Since its launch in 2018, Nitin’s team at India PR Distribution has launched many industry-first digital PR solutions that are now industry norms. Nitin was instrumental in launching organic PR packages at affordable costs. India PR Distribution has recently entered into partnerships with new media houses, making it one of the most comprehensive PR package agencies in India. Under Nitin’s leadership, India PR Distribution is the top choice for PR distribution for many leading startups, celebrities, corporations, and Fortune 500 companies. India PR Distribution has won awards, including ‘Top PR Agency’ and many others, under Nitin Jain’s leadership. India PR Distribution continues to provide strong results, wider media reach, and dependable support.
9. Ismail Sheikh, Founder of Bearhugs
In 2025, Ismail Sheikh has redefined retail by transforming Bearhugs from a niche portal into India’s largest novelty powerhouse. By curating premium, "never-before-seen" global trends—from high-tech gadgets to Sanrio collectibles and from kawaii décor to premium plushies—Sheikh has tapped into the nation's growing desire for unique self-expression.
Beyond digital dominance, Sheikh successfully bridged the online-offline gap this year, launching Bear Hugs’ flagship store and announcing aggressive expansions into Delhi and Mumbai. With over 50k+ SKUs, 100,000 customers and a global supply chain, his impact is measurable and profound. Sheikh’s ability to blend whimsical curation with scalable business logic solidifies his status as a key visionary driving the future of India’s experiential e-commerce landscape.
10. Shruti Shah - Founder, House of Shrusha
Shruti Shah is the founder of House of Shrusha, a brand born from her love for storytelling, culture and self- expression. What began as a fashion label has grown into a movement celebrating individuality, femininity and modern Indian identity. Named after her initials, House of Shrusha reflects Shruti’s authenticity and her belief that fashion should be timeless, versatile and deeply rooted in heritage. The brand is known for its breathable fabrics, fluid silhouettes and meticulous craftsmanship-pieces that blend traditional artistry with contemporary elegance. As it evolves, House of Shrusha unveils a refreshed visual identity and expands naturally into décor and lifestyle, carrying forward the same values of thoughtfulness, culture and refined design. For Shruti, every creation is a moment of connection-through fabric, space and story.
