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BITS PILANI: THE UNICORN FACTORY

15 Unicorns • $60+ Billion Combined Valuation • 1,500+ Startups

1,500+
Total Startups
657
Funded Startups
15
Unicorns
$60B+
Combined Valuation
8
Major Acquisitions
30+
Years of Success

Top 5 BITSian Unicorns

📱

SanDisk

$19B
Sanjay Mehrotra
Acquired by Western Digital (2016)
🍔

Swiggy

$11B
Sriharsha Majety
Current Valuation
💱

FalconX

$8B
Raghu Yarlagadda
Current Valuation
🚀

Postman

$7.5B
Abhinav Asthana
Current Valuation
🏢

OfBusiness

$5B
Asish Mohapatra & Bhuvan Gupta
Current Valuation

BITSian Unicorns by Valuation

SanDisk
$19B
Swiggy
$11B
FalconX
$8B
Postman
$7.5B
OfBusiness
$5B
Eruditus
$3.2B
BigBasket
$3B
Groww
$3B
MPL
$2.3B
Zeta
$1.45B

Major Acquisitions Timeline

96
1996

Hotmail

Sabeer Bhatia

$400MMicrosoft

13
2013

RedBus

Phanindra Sama

$138MIbibo Group

16
2016

SanDisk

Sanjay Mehrotra

$19BWestern Digital

16
2016

Media.net

Divyank Turakhia

$900MChinese Consortium

21
2021

BigBasket

Hari Menon

Majority StakeTata Digital

What Makes BITS Different

🎯

Flexible Attendance Policy

Freedom to focus on entrepreneurship and innovation

🚀

Startup Gap Year

Official policy allowing gap year for startup building (2022)

🏢

Technology Business Incubators

Dedicated incubators across all campuses

💡

Innovation Center

Rakesh Kapoor Innovation Centre for startup support

👥

Angel Network

Angel investment network of successful alumni

Accelerator Program

Hybrid program for startup acceleration