Startup lessons from IIT-Delhi’s first experiment
5 years, 6 months ago

Startup lessons from IIT-Delhi’s first experiment

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Bengaluru: In early 2002, Dipinder Sekhon was in the final months of his five-year course in computer science at the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi. Even today, 17 years after its launch, the firm’s vision remains a work-in-progress, and Kritikal, somewhere lies in the grey space between success and failure. Xerox ModiCorp eventually collapsed because of corporate governance issues and the blueprint provided by Kritikal for the office device wasn’t commercialized, but the project did breathe some life into the firm. Vehant would take as long as three years to find a substantial number of clients for its surveillance technology, while Kritikal only chugged along despite the funding round. Three members of Kritikal’s original founding team—Sekhon, Nishant and Ashwani Gautam—continue to be at the firm; Anoop Prabhu, who had moved to Vehant when it was spun off in 2005, continues to be that firm’s CTO.

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