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Ashish Airon
Born (1992-12-03) 3 December 1992 (age 31)
NationalityIndian
Alma materDelhi University, Oxford University
OccupationEntrepreneur
Known forFounder of CogniTensor & BlitzBusiness Indian Podcast

Ashish Airon (born 3 December 1992) is an entrepreneur, founder of CogniTensor, a Artificial Intelligence based software development company, based out of New Delhi, India.[1]

Early life

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Airon was born and brought up in New Delhi, India. He attended Oxford University, United Kingdom and completed a degree in computer science in 2015 . After graduation, Airon worked at a Research Institute in Germany for less than a year. In 2016, Airon quit his research work to start his own company.[2]

Career

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In 2017, Airon started an Artificial Intelligence based company, CogniTensor, with an initial capital of ₹5,00,000 (5 Lakh Rupees or US$7,600).

In 2022, the company raised his first seed round from Shell plc India.[3][4] With a subsequent seed round in 2023 from IIMA's CIIE.CO in collaboration with Accenture India. Further raising capital in 2024 from Techstars [5][6]

Airon has been speaker at Ross school of business,[7] Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, [8] and The German Indian Startup Exchange Program (GINSEP).[9]

Awards and honours

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Year Name Awarding organisation Ref.
2020 Forbes 30 under 30 Forbes Asia [10][11]
2023 Nippon Foundation Fellow Nippon Foundation [12]

References

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  1. ^ Pandey, Ashish (4 July 2023). "This Noida-based startup is powering efficiency of employees, companies with AI". The Economic Times. Retrieved 28 October 2023.
  2. ^ "The Success Story Of DU Dropout – Ashish Airon » The ShareStory". The ShareStory. 16 April 2020. Retrieved 29 October 2023.
  3. ^ "Shell E4-Digital Track". e4.shell.in.
  4. ^ "Shell Launches 'Digital Track' for Indian Start ups". www.saurenergy.com.
  5. ^ "CIIE, IIM Ahmedabad". CIIECO.
  6. ^ "Techstars, Global Atlanta". globalatlanta. 11 September 2024.
  7. ^ "Speakers 2022". The University of Michigan.
  8. ^ "2nd Annual Conference 2022". Indo-German Centre for Business Excellence. 26 July 2022.
  9. ^ "INDO GERMAN STARTUP WEEK 2021". The German Indian Startup Exchange. Retrieved 28 October 2023.
  10. ^ "Ashish Airon". Forbes.
  11. ^ Zaleski, Alexandra (19 June 2020). "Three Catz Alumni featured in Forbes 30 Under 30". St Catherine's College.
  12. ^ "New Fellows Join Japan-India Transformative Technology Network". Salzburg Global.