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Six prominent Indian Americans made the cut in the 40 under 40, of 2016, by Crain’s New York Business magazine.
The six who made the list are: Nisha Agarwal, commissioner in the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs; Miki Agrawal, Thinx, CEO, CMO and co-founder; Sarita James, CEO, Embark; Payal Kadakia, ClassPass founder; Gurinder Sangha, founder of Intelligize and Lit IQ; and Kal Vepuri, founder and chairman of Brainchild.
Agarwal, a graduate of Harvard Law School, has worked with a U.S. Court of Appeals judge to establish the Immigrant Justice Corps, a nonprofit that recruited lawyers to offer free legal representation to immigrants.
Miki Agrawal, along with her twin sister Radha, and a friend, Antonia Dunbar, co-founded Thinx Inc., in 2012. Thinx has launched this past May panties which is claims provides proof to any leaking during periods, and is also odor proof.
Sarita James, a Harvard computer science graduate and Oxford M.B.A., has launched EmbarkMatch, which lets young scholars input a few key metrics and receive and accept offers from universities. Last year, it had revenue of more than $3 million.
ClassPass by Payal Kadakia, offers subscribers the option to go to any class without having to take on expensive annual memberships.
Sangha quit his job as a fourth-year associate at White & Case in 2007 to work on making Securities and Exchange Commission filings more digitally searchable, saving attorneys endless hours of page turning. Reports say 75 percent of the American Lawyer 100 firms use his Intelligize software, paying yearly subscriptions of $100,000 to $150,000. He has also launched Lit IQ, which seeks to protect lawyers from themselves by scanning legal documents for ambiguous or conflicting language and suggesting alternatives.
Vepuri has launched three companies: The Arrivals — a direct-to-consumer outerwear line; Onomie, which combines skin care and makeup; and Hero, a smart medical appliance that turns the traditional pill-organizer into a connected device that can track medicine and order refills.