Eleven-year-old Athvik Amith Kumar walked into a room of investors on Bharat Ke Super Founders, a reality show on Amazon Prime Video, and asked them to invest Rs 2 crore in his startup at a valuation of Rs 25 crore.
Athvik pitched ZOZOconnect, a startup that addresses a problem he noticed while attending events with his parents: piles of business cards were exchanged and eventually discarded. “The cards were on floors, at tables, at cafeterias, even in trash bins. I felt bad for Mother Nature,” he said on the show. “Is this 2025 or 1995?” he thought.