Joint Entrance Examination – Advanced (JEE-Advanced), is an academic examination held annually in India that tests the skills and knowledge of the applicants in physics, chemistry and maths. It is organised by one of the seven zonal IITs: IIT Roorkee, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur, IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, and IIT Guwahati, under the guidance of the Joint Admission Board (JAB) on a round-robin rotation pattern for the qualifying candidates of the JEE-Main. It used to be the sole prerequisite for admission to the Indian Institutes of Technology bachelor's programs before the introduction of UCEED, Online B.S. and Olympiad entries, but seats through these new media are very low.
Indian Institute of Technology Varanasi(IIT-BHU) is a public technical university located in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. Founded in 1919 as the Banaras Engineering College, it became the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University in 1968. It was later designated an Indian Institute of Technology in 2012. IIT (BHU) Varanasi has 16 departments, 3 inter-disciplinary schools and 1 Humanities & Social Sciences Section. It is located inside the Banaras Hindu University Campus.
The Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) is an engineering entrance assessment conducted for admission to various engineering colleges in India. It comprises two different examinations: the JEE-Main and the JEE-Advanced.
Anand Kumar is an Indian mathematics educator, best known for his Super 30 program , which he started in Patna, Bihar in 2002. He is known for coaching underprivileged students for JEE–Main and JEE–Advanced, the entrance examinations for the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). Kumar was named in Time magazine's list of Best of Asia 2010. In 2023, he was awarded the Padma Shri, the country's fourth highest civilian award by the Government of India for his contributions in the fields of literature and education.
Indian Institute of Technology Ropar is a public technical university located in Rupnagar, Punjab, India. It is one of the eight Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) established in 2008 by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India under The Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Act, 2011 to expand the reach and enhance the quality of technical education in the country.
Sanjeev Bikhchandani is an Indian businessman, who is the founder and executive vice chairman of Info Edge which owns Naukri.com, a job portal, as well as the co-founder of Ashoka University. He was honored with the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian award, in January 2020.
Binny Bansal is an Indian billionaire Internet entrepreneur. As of February 2024, his net worth was estimated at US$1.4 billion. In 2007 he co-founded the e-commerce platform Flipkart. He was the chief operating officer until January 2016, when he was promoted to chief executive officer (CEO). In January 2017 he was promoted to group CEO, then resigned in November 2018 due to personal misconduct allegations of Flipkart. He is an anchor investor in the venture firm 021 Capital. In 2019, Bansal invested in the endowment fund of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi.
FIITJEE is a coaching institute based in India primarily for competitive exams. FIITJEE was by Dinesh Kumar Goel in 1992. It offers courses for students in grades 6-12 aspiring to appear in numerous competitive exams and other examinations.
Ritesh Agarwal is an Indian billionaire entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of OYO Rooms. He has also appeared in Shark Tank India since 2024. Agarwal's net worth is estimated to be around ₹16,000 crore as of March 2024.
Namita Thapar is an Indian entrepreneur, business executive, and angel investor. She is the Executive director of Emcure Pharmaceuticals. She has also been a prominent investor in Shark Tank India investing in over 100 companies. She is also the founder of Thapar Entrepreneur Academy.
Munitions India Limited (MIL) is an Indian state-owned defence company, headquartered in Pune, India, established in 2021 as part of the restructuring and corporatisation of the Ordnance Factory Board into seven different Public Sector Undertakings. Munitions India primarily manufactures ammunition, explosives, rockets and bombs for the use of the Indian Armed Forces, foreign militaries and domestic civilian use.
Shark Tank India is an Indian Hindi-language business reality television series that airs on Sony Entertainment Television. The show is the Indian franchise of the American show Shark Tank. It shows entrepreneurs making business presentations to a panel of investors or sharks, who decide whether to invest in their company.
The second season of Shark Tank India aired from 2 January 2023 to 13 March 2023.
Vineeta Singh is an Indian entrepreneur and CEO, co-founder of Sugar Cosmetics. She has been a Shark on the business reality TV show Shark Tank India since the show started airing on SonyLIV in 2021.
Anupam Mittal is an Indian entrepreneur, business executive and angel investor. He is the founder and CEO of People Group and Shaadi.com. Apart from starting Shaadi.com, an Indian online wedding service, he has also been a prominent investor in Shark Tank Season 1, 2 and 3, investing in over 250 companies. He was also the co-founder and chairperson of the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) from 2006 to 2007 and is currently on its Governing Council. He is the recipient of the Karmaveer Chakra Award. He has also acted in and produced Bollywood films such as 99 and Flavors.
Peyush Bansal is an Indian entrepreneur, business executive and an angel investor. He is the co-founder and CEO of Lenskart, an Indian multinational optical prescription eyewear retail chain, based in Gurugram. He is also a shark at the show Shark Tank India.
The third season of Shark Tank India aired from January 22, 2024 to March 31, 2024.
Aman Gupta is an Indian entrepreneur and angel investor. He is the co-founder and CMO of Indian electronics brand boAt Lifestyle. He is a judge and investor in Sony TV's business reality show Shark Tank India.
Inshorts is a news aggregator and content distribution company based in India that publishes a software app that sends out news stories in 60-word bites.
Sushma Bopanna,, is the chief executive officer and academic director at Sri Chaitanya and is a founder of Infinity Learn.