Day 3 of 100 · Electric Mobility

Ather Energy

Two IIT Madras students who wanted a better scooter ended up building India's smart EV category.

Started atIIT Madras
Founded2013
FoundersTarun Mehta & Swapnil Jain
CountryIndia

How it started

The idea began in campus labs and grew inside IIT Madras Research Park. Their first prototype was assembled with student-grade budgets and professor-grade stubbornness.

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Why we are telling this story

The next company on a list like this one has not been founded yet. Right now it is a student in a lecture hall with an idea nobody has asked about, and no room to build it in. Innovation-Hub is that room: a permanent space inside your institution where students from every department explore, experiment, collaborate and prototype.

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Pick a question — or write your own — and get a grounded answer about how Ather Energy was actually built.

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