Akarsh Shroff

With his Bangalore-based social venture YuvaSpark, Shroff set out to improve baseline literacy and numeracy to ensure kids from low-income backgrounds in India are not excluded from opportunities. YuvaSpark assesses metrics about student success, from retention rates to test scores, and then creates custom academic programs for teachers that they can access on a cloud platform. The program has been used by government schools and orphanages, providing learning tools in five languages.