Rajeev Circle Fellowship facilitates their visit to California, US, A stylish Smart Watch that helps deaf individuals learn about their environment through vibrations and an ear pod that can sense your brainwaves and tell the mood and emotions at that point of time on an app fetched for their innovators the prestigious Rajeev Circle Fellowship and an all-expense paid ticket to Silicon Valley in California.
The fellowship provided the selected makers a chance to showcase their products in Silicon Valley and meet some of the best startups there for further honing their talents. Now back from their stint in California, the young innovators are excited to take their products to the next level with plans of commercial production.
Asha Jadeja Motwani, a celebrated Silicon Valley-based venture capitalist and serial angel investor who started the Fellowship five years ago, said she would provide seed funding to some of the Fellows for further development of their products.
Overall, ten bright young Indians were selected for the fellowship from a host of products and devices that were displayed at the 4th edition of Maker Fest India, held in Ahmedabad in January this year.
The Maker Fest is a homegrown version of the hugely popular Maker Faire that began in California in 2006 and is now held in several cities of the US, Europe, Japan, Brazil and Africa. Introduced in India in 2013 by
Asha, it is fast shaping up as a stellar event in India on innovation, creativity and early-stage entrepreneurship. Nitin Vasant, a student of Cochin University of Science and Technology, has developed the ear pods that can sense a person’s brain waves and register the mood, feelings and emotions at that point of time on an app. The pioneering product has been sponsored by companies like Intel and Bosch.
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