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Free Flights, Free Housing, No Questions Asked: How India's Gen-Z Founders Are Funding Each Other

Karan Kamble

Aug 25, 2025, 03:51 PM | Updated 06:12 PM IST


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  • Across Bengaluru and beyond, India’s youngest founders are building not just startups but support systems by funding flights, offering free homes, and creating labs, so peers from small towns and big cities alike can dream, build, and scale together.
  • Suhas Sumukh, 17, has just finished high school. But he's already spent over half a decade as a software developer, including about two and a half years at well-known companies like the United States (US)-based SONA LLC and Merkle Labs (formerly DogeCapital), and in one as no less than a founding engineer. He was even Doge's youngest-ever software engineer.

    Amidst discharging software development duties at various companies, Sumukh snuck in time to build and subsequently sell his startup, Neurifyx, an artificial intelligence (AI) platform for workspace solutions.

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    Karan Kamble writes on science and technology. He occasionally wears the hat of a video anchor for Swarajya's online video programmes.


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