News

tenCube receives most innovative company award

2010-04-15

Paragon fellow '09 Rishi Kumar and his company tenCube have added yet another feather to its cap. We just got news that they won “Most Innovative Company Award” at the China Mobile Innovation Competition. tenCube was selected from 110 entries covering wide range of mobile applications in the category of music, games, entertainment, social networking and security.

 

Learn more about Grassroutes

2010-04-08

Inir Pinheiro's Grassroutes, a social venture that adopts Indian villages for sustianble tourism programs, has been profiled in a case study http://bit.ly/cz6vey & interview http://bit.ly/biOwe

   

Paragon '09 fellow Irfan Alam chosen among "Most Promising Entrepreneurs" by BusinessWorld

2010-03-30

Irfan Alam utilised his IIM-A degree to come up with a socially relevant business model, by creating services around and for cycle rickshaw pullers. Today he was selected as one of the "Most Promising Entrepreneurs" by Business World, one of India's leading business magazines.

   

Grassroutes in the recent Sunday DNA

2010-03-25

Gangadharan Menon wrote a wonderful descriptive piece about the villages adopted by Paragon fellow Inir Pinheiro's organization Grassroutes, which has been promoting village tourism in the tribal belt around Mumbai.

   

2 Paragon fellows selected as finalists for 2010 Rolex Young Laureate finalists

2010-03-09

Reese Fernandez (Philippines) and Piyush Tewari (India) have been selected as finalists for the inaugural edition of the Rolex Awards for Enterprise: Young Laureates Programme. Aged between 18 and 30, the finalists were singled out from almost 200 applicants and come from 16 countries worldwide. Their inventive ideas to solve tomorrow’s challenges in the fields of science and health, applied technology, exploration, the environment and cultural preservation. A total of five Young Laureates will be revealed in April and each will receive US$50,000 to implement their projects.

   

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