Avanti Fellows is an award winning non-profit organization established by two IIT alumni- Akshay Saxena & Krishna Ramkumar in 2010 with the support of the Pan-IIT alumni organization. Both Akshay and Krishna came from successful corporate careers; Krishna a former gold-medalist at IIT Bombay and Akshay out of the MBA program at Harvard Business School. The goal was straight-forward - to give every student the opportunity to study at India’s best colleges. It was established with the aim to provide affordable, high-quality education to disadvantaged students aspiring to study at India’s top universities.
Avanti Fellows, the social education enterprise running India's largest interventions integrating technology to improve Math and Science achievement in secondary schools, has received a total grant of USD 4.5 million for its projects from leading organizations such as USAID, J. P. Morgan and Mi... (more)