A daily series

100 companies that started on a campus.

Google in a dorm room. Ather in an IIT Madras lab. FedEx in a term paper the professor was not impressed by. One story every day, for 100 days.

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2 of 100 published
Google
Day 1 Google Stanford University
Facebook / Meta
Day 2 Facebook / Meta Harvard University
Day 3
17 Aug
Day 3 Ather Energy IIT Madras
Day 4
18 Aug
Day 4 Dell University of Texas at Austin
Day 5
19 Aug
Day 5 Practo NITK Surathkal
Day 6
20 Aug
Day 6 Microsoft Harvard University
Day 7
21 Aug
Day 7 Zepto Stanford University (Indian founders)
Day 8
22 Aug
Day 8 Snapchat Stanford University
Day 9
23 Aug
Day 9 Ola IIT Bombay (alumnus)
Day 10
24 Aug
Day 10 Yahoo! Stanford University
Day 11
25 Aug
Day 11 Flipkart IIT Delhi (alumni)
Day 12
26 Aug
Day 12 FedEx Yale University
Day 13
27 Aug
Day 13 Razorpay IIT Roorkee
Day 14
28 Aug
Day 14 Sun Microsystems Stanford University
Day 15
29 Aug
Day 15 Unacademy NMIMS / campus YouTube channel
Day 16
30 Aug
Day 16 Reddit University of Virginia
Day 17
31 Aug
Day 17 ideaForge IIT Bombay
Day 18
01 Sep
Day 18 Duolingo Carnegie Mellon University
Day 19
02 Sep
Day 19 Meesho IIT Delhi
Day 20
03 Sep
Day 20 Atlassian University of New South Wales
Day 21
04 Sep
Day 21 HackerRank NIT Trichy
Day 22
05 Sep
Day 22 Figma Brown University
Day 23
06 Sep
Day 23 BrowserStack IIT Bombay (alumni)
Day 24
07 Sep
Day 24 Canva University of Western Australia
Day 25
08 Sep
Day 25 GalaxEye Space IIT Madras
Day 26
09 Sep
Day 26 DoorDash Stanford University
Day 27
10 Sep
Day 27 Innovaccer IIT Kharagpur
Day 28
11 Sep
Day 28 Klarna Stockholm School of Economics
Day 29
12 Sep
Day 29 Log 9 Materials IIT Roorkee
Day 30
13 Sep
Day 30 Time Magazine Yale University
Day 31
14 Sep
Day 31 Zomato IIT Delhi (alumni)
Day 32
15 Sep
Day 32 Dropbox MIT
Day 33
16 Sep
Day 33 Agnikul Cosmos IIT Madras
Day 34
17 Sep
Day 34 Grab Harvard Business School
Day 35
18 Sep
Day 35 Uniphore IIT Madras
Day 36
19 Sep
Day 36 Under Armour University of Maryland
Day 37
20 Sep
Day 37 Databricks UC Berkeley
Day 38
21 Sep
Day 38 Detect Technologies IIT Madras
Day 39
22 Sep
Day 39 Lyft (Zimride) Cornell University
Day 40
23 Sep
Day 40 Mad Street Den IIT Madras Research Park
Day 41
24 Sep
Day 41 Napster Northeastern University
Day 42
25 Sep
Day 42 Wow! Momo St. Xavier's College, Kolkata
Day 43
26 Sep
Day 43 Formlabs MIT Media Lab
Day 44
27 Sep
Day 44 Wingify / VWO Delhi College of Engineering (alumnus)
Day 45
28 Sep
Day 45 Coursera Stanford University
Day 46
29 Sep
Day 46 Zetwerk IIT Madras (alumni)
Day 47
30 Sep
Day 47 Bolt Secondary school / University of Tartu
Day 48
01 Oct
Day 48 Bellatrix Aerospace IISc Bengaluru
Day 49
02 Oct
Day 49 Celonis Technical University of Munich
Day 50
03 Oct
Day 50 Chegg Iowa State University
Day 51
04 Oct
Day 51 GUVI IIT Madras Research Park
Day 52
05 Oct
Day 52 Genentech UCSF
Day 53
06 Oct
Day 53 Sea6 Energy IIT Madras
Day 54
07 Oct
Day 54 Warby Parker Wharton, University of Pennsylvania
Day 55
08 Oct
Day 55 Postman Bengaluru engineers / side project
Day 56
09 Oct
Day 56 Twitch (Justin.tv) Yale University
Day 57
10 Oct
Day 57 Zoho IIT Madras (alumnus)
Day 58
11 Oct
Day 58 Robinhood Stanford University
Day 59
12 Oct
Day 59 Ultraviolette Bengaluru / campus engineering
Day 60
13 Oct
Day 60 Skydio MIT
Day 61
14 Oct
Day 61 Niki.ai IIT Kharagpur
Day 62
15 Oct
Day 62 Insomnia Cookies University of Pennsylvania
Day 63
16 Oct
Day 63 Wayve University of Cambridge
Day 64
17 Oct
Day 64 Nykaa Not campus-born (contrast story)
Day 65
18 Oct
Day 65 Oxford Nanopore University of Oxford
Day 66
19 Oct
Day 66 Chalo / Zophop IIT Bombay (alumni)
Day 67
20 Oct
Day 67 Coupang Harvard University
Day 68
21 Oct
Day 68 Aerostrovilos Energy IIT Madras
Day 69
22 Oct
Day 69 Palantir Stanford University
Day 70
23 Oct
Day 70 Bombinate / Modulus Housing IIT Madras
Day 71
24 Oct
Day 71 Akamai MIT
Day 72
25 Oct
Day 72 Mercado Libre Stanford GSB
Day 73
26 Oct
Day 73 Aerem / Pi Beam IIT Madras
Day 74
27 Oct
Day 74 Darktrace University of Cambridge
Day 75
28 Oct
Day 75 Cure.fit IIT & IIM alumni
Day 76
29 Oct
Day 76 Instagram (Burbn) Stanford University (alumni)
Day 77
30 Oct
Day 77 Bugworks Bengaluru research ecosystem
Day 78
31 Oct
Day 78 Yik Yak Furman University
Day 79
01 Nov
Day 79 String Bio Bengaluru / research spinout
Day 80
02 Nov
Day 80 Stripe MIT & Harvard
Day 81
03 Nov
Day 81 Wobot / Vahan Indian campuses
Day 82
04 Nov
Day 82 Moderna Harvard / MIT research
Day 83
05 Nov
Day 83 BioNTech University of Mainz
Day 84
06 Nov
Day 84 Brex Stanford University
Day 85
07 Nov
Day 85 Scale AI MIT
Day 86
08 Nov
Day 86 Ginkgo Bioworks MIT
Day 87
09 Nov
Day 87 Blablacar INSEAD
Day 88
10 Nov
Day 88 Gojek Harvard Business School
Day 89
11 Nov
Day 89 iRobot MIT
Day 90
12 Nov
Day 90 Anyscale / Ray UC Berkeley
Day 91
13 Nov
Day 91 PhysicsWallah Self-taught teacher, YouTube
Day 92
14 Nov
Day 92 Sarvam AI / Krutrim class IISc & IIT ecosystem
Day 93
15 Nov
Day 93 Zerodha Not campus-born (contrast story)
Day 94
16 Nov
Day 94 VMware Stanford University
Day 95
17 Nov
Day 95 Improbable University of Cambridge
Day 96
18 Nov
Day 96 Exscientia University of Dundee
Day 97
19 Nov
Day 97 Aadyah / Indian defence startups Indian engineering campuses
Day 98
20 Nov
Day 98 Paystack Babcock University
Day 99
21 Nov
Day 99 Tinder University of Southern California
Day 100
22 Nov
Day 100 Your Campus Your Institution

Your campus could be Day 101

Every company above began with a student, a problem and a room. Two of those your campus already has. Innovation-Hub is the third.

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