The Under 25 Club was started by Shreyans Jain and Anton Philip, both graduates of Christ University. “We noticed there were youngsters who set up start-ups but were not doing anything with them. So we wondered how do we build a community and enter the eco-system?” says Anton. The duo organised their first Under 25 start-up summit in 2014. “It was more like a networking event,” says Shreyans. They wanted to scale up their event. “The organisers at Construkt Festival got in touch with us. They mentored us and at the Festival we were separate entity all together,” says Anton. They then decided to make an online presence by launching their media platform,www.under25.club. “We have 116 stories of youngsters who are change makers,” says Anton. The duo didn’t want to focus only on start-ups. For their summit planned next year, they have taken a multi-pronged approach. “Unlike earlier when the name was Under 25 start-up summit, our next event we have named it Under 25 summit. There are five categories: tech, design, young achievers, food and music,” says Shreyans. Activities include “artists’ collective, hackathons, start-up showcase, chat rooms.”
