Chandra R. Srikanth@chandrarsrikant
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- IIT-Bombay’s class of 1998 has gifted Rs 57 crore to its alma mater as part of the Silver Jubilee reunion celebrations
This is the highest combined contribution by a single class, breaking the previous record of Rs 41 crore by the Class of 1971 for their golden jubilee celebration
- Contributions have been made by over 200+ alumni including Anupam Banerjee, MD, Vector Capital; Apoorv Saxena, Managing Director, Silver Lake; Dileep George, AI Research, Google Deepmind; Mohan Lakahmraju, CEO, Great Learning; Manu Varma, SVP, Colopast; Sundar Iyer, Seasoned Silicon Valley entrepreneur; Sandeep Joshi, Co-founder and CEO, Indovance; Shailendra Singh, Managing Director, Peak XV; and Srikant Shetty, Chief Growth Officer, Americas, HCL.
The funds raised by the Class of 1998 will help the Institute support key academic projects and the research landscape at IIT Bombay. They include Project Evergreen, which aims to create sustainable and eco-friendly hostels for students; Makerspace labs to foster scientific and technological innovation and creativity including a new AI micro factory; and Student Aid initiatives (including Scholarships) to fuel the aspirations of the next generation of students at the Institute. There are also plans to create the first-of-its-kind endowment fund from the proceeds, and to fund projects at the Centre for Machine Intelligence and Data Minds (C-MinDS).
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