About

I build things that have to keep working.

Portrait of Advait Thakur in a black shirt against a dark studio background

I'm a founder and engineer from Mumbai, India. I started building companies while still in school and built Apex Infosys from the ground up, taking it from custom PCBs and firmware to a complete IoT platform spanning devices, software and cloud infrastructure. Over four years, the company grew to thousands of installations across homes and businesses, generating multi-million-dollar ARR. Building and scaling the business end to end shaped how I approach entrepreneurship: start with real problems, own the entire system, and make it work beyond the lab.

That experience led me to build ApexOS, a local-first home operating system designed to keep essential automations running even when the internet fails. My work also spans agri-tech, digital public infrastructure and document AI, with a common focus on building technology for real-world conditions.

Named India Today's Youngest Entrepreneur in 2019 and selected as a Leader of Tomorrow for the St. Gallen Symposium, I now work at the intersection of AI, IoT and digital public infrastructure, focusing on systems that bring intelligence closer to where data is generated—on devices and inside buildings, rather than in a data centre. NYU's Courant × Stern MS-CEI program starts in 2027; until then, this is the work.

Timeline

  • 2026 →FounderStealth AI company — IoT & industrial systems
  • 2024 — 25Project LeadDDRC, Govt. of India
  • 2021 — 25B.Tech IT, Honours in CybersecurityKJ Somaiya College of Engineering
  • 2020 — 22Co-founder & CTOCrophle, Inc.
  • 2022 — 26Product & TechApex Infosys India

Recognition

  • Leader of Tomorrow55th St. Gallen Symposium, Switzerland
  • Leaders of Tomorrow, Season 11ET Now
  • Professional Cloud ArchitectGoogle Cloud
  • Youngest EntrepreneurIndia Today
  • Invited speakerIIT Bombay, IIT Madras, IIT Kanpur, IEEE Kerala

In the media

  • Meet the new kids on the tech blockGulf NewsRead
  • Gen Z, working on their own termsIndia Today magazine · April 2024Read
  • #TechCEO At 19-Years Old, Advait Thakur Is Chief of IoT Company Apex Infosys IndiaTechTimes · June 2022Read
  • Young CEO: This 16-year-old has big plans for India's tech sectorZoomin English · DailymotionWatch
  • How this 15-year-old founded a company potentially worth millionsThe Startup · MediumRead
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Contact

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