Deepak Ravindran, 27

LBS College of Engg dropout; Lookup, Bangalore

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Updated: 05 Feb 2022 5:05 pm

After walking out during his fifth semester in computer science, Deepak went through an entrepreneurship and incubation programme at IIM Ahmedabad. After two small ventures, he started Lookup, a messaging app like Whatsapp, for local businesses and their consumers. In eight months, it has garnered 3,00,000 users. His first venture, Innoz Technologies, was started in 2011 with four friends, also dropouts. It created SMS Gyan, an offline meta search engine, that provides info on the weather, stock prices and movies. It had 35 million users worldwide. Says Deepak, “Dropping out is for the braveheart and you need the support of the 3Fs (friends, family and fools) to succeed.”