Hyderabad based startup wins Hult Prize

Telangana IT minister KT Rama Rao congratulated the Hyderabad-based NanoHealth team on winning the prestigious Hult prize which is also known as Nobel prize for students.

He said that such path-breaking initiatives are the need of the hour to tackle the complex challenges that are plaguing our country. The NanoHealth team had met Rama Rao before leaving to New York for the finals.

Hyderabad-based social startup enterprise NanoHealth, won the prestigious Hult Prize worth $ 1 million. The finals were held in New York on Tuesday. The team comprised five students from the Indian School of Business – Aditi, Ashish, Manish, Pranav and Ram.

NanoHealth team has been selected from 11,000 applications and several qualifying rounds. The Hult Prize is the planet’s largest student competition and is dubbed as the ‘Nobel Prize for Students’

‘’NanoHealth is a social enterprise built by 5 PGP students from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. It focuses on reducing non-communicable diseases (cancer, CVD, diabetes, hypertension, respiratory diseases) in urban slums.

As part of the Hult Prize competition, NanoHealth team was one of the six teams worldwide invited to pitch their idea to former US President Bill Clinton among other luminaries. (Source: The New Indian Express)