Hey, I'm Rudra

I build technology for the people it usually leaves out.

Founder and CEO of Evion, distributed to 50,000+ growers.
Researching AI access with Stanford's King Center.
Funded by NASA at 14.
Got a bill into the Maryland General Assembly at 15.

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Building machines that could see, and pushing the people in charge until they listened.

● Zone safe● Hazard detected

NASA TechRise

NASA funded me to build STARLACE: LiDAR, IMUs, and cameras feeding an AI model I wrote (OLVR) to find safe landing zones in real time. It flew on a rocket-powered lander over simulated moon terrain.

14years old

About TechRise

The STARLACE flight box on a workbench, surrounded by tools — The flight hardware, mid-build.

● HB0373 · Voting age · Board of Education

MoCo Students for Change

As an officer, I led 30+ students lobbying Annapolis to let 16-year-olds vote in Board of Education elections. We flooded lawmakers with letters and annoyed them until it became a bill.

200+letters written

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Rudrojas presenting for MoCo Students for Change at a podium — Presenting the campaign.

Ripple was the first time I put technology behind the access work. With a few upperclassmen, I built a platform where students report what's broken at school and administrators actually fix it. After scaling to every school in Montgomery County, MCPS considered it for a $32,000 pilot.

ABC7 · Ripple

Poolesville students launch Ripple

WTOP · Ripple

Students look to democratize school maintenance

Montgomery County · every school on Ripple

● Closed bathroom · Poolesville · reported● Broken lights · Rockville · reported● Leaky faucet · Silver Spring · reported● Menstrual products · Germantown · reported

ABC7 broadcast: high school students launch innovative app, showing Ripple on a laptop — ABC7, Montgomery County.

Precision agriculture has existed for decades. Only industrial farms could afford it. In 10th grade I started Evion to change that. It turns a photo from any drone or camera into a crop-health map, for a fraction of what satellites or multispectral sensors cost.

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● Any drone, any camera● Every frame stitched into one map● Stress zone flagged● No multispectral sensor neededStressedHealthy

Any drone flies the field. Evion reads every frame into a crop-health map.

Then I needed the right people to care. I wrote a script that guessed the Calendly links of Silicon Valley founders and booked the calls myself. People who built companies I grew up using actually picked up, and it got me flown out to San Francisco.

Who picked up

Max MullenCo-founder, Instacart
Emmett ShearCo-founder, Twitch

Packing to go home (couldn't yet afford an LED sign).

While I was there, someone offered me

$0,000

to take Evion purely commercial.

I said no.

Going purely commercial meant charging the farms I built it for.

But there is some power in being 16:

Rent: $0
Payroll: $0
Investors to answer to: 0
Rational thinking (joking): 0

So I gave it all away.

The offer01 / 04

The data that decides whether a harvest survives shouldn't sit behind a paywall.

Enterprise customers pay, so small farms never do. Free became the distribution, and the distribution became the business.

Hundreds of people and organizations reached out. I used that reach to scale.

Today, that looks like this.

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farmers and growers across the US and Asia

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acres of pine forest monitored from the air

Today01 / 02

Business Insider

This 16-year-old refused a $300,000 offer to drop out of high school and now runs his own AI company

Business Insider · Evion

Fast Company · Evion

Hindustan Times · Evion

Rejected 2.8 crore, now runs his own AI startup

Channeliam · Evion

WTOP · Evion

A classroom idea turned global AI farming tool

The Times of India · Evion

The teen who said no to $300,000

Yahoo News · Evion

This 16-year-old refused a $300,000 offer

NDTV · Evion

Teen rejects a 2.8 crore dropout offer

India.com · Evion

The teen who said no to 2.8 crore

Financial Express · Evion

Rejected 2.8 crore to build for farmers

Storyboard18 · Evion

Rejects 2.8 crore offer, builds AI startup for farmers

ABC7 · Ripple

Poolesville students launch Ripple

WTOP · Ripple

Students look to democratize school maintenance

Also one of 50 first-cohort Bambu Lab School Ambassadors across North America.

World Food Prize Top Agri-food Pioneers card for Rudrojas Kunvar

The youngest person in history recognized by the World Food Prize Foundation.

The World Food Prize is agriculture's Nobel. Its Foundation named me a 2026 Top Agri-food Pioneer for Evion, alongside the scientists shaping how the world eats.

First place in Social Innovation at the most prestigious high school entrepreneurship competition in the world.

More than 4,000 students compete every year. Evion took the track outright, and $12,000 with it.

The youngest founder ever named to Fast Company's Innovation by Design.

One of the most prestigious design honors in the world, usually reserved for Google and top university labs. Evion was a finalist when I was 16.

Hey, I'm Rudra

It started with two things I couldn't stop doing.

Then the two collided.

Then I took on the biggest project of my life.

Moved to San Francisco alone for the summer, at 15.

The no that went viral.

Then the world noticed.

The youngest person in history recognized by the World Food Prize Foundation.

First place in Social Innovation at the most prestigious high school entrepreneurship competition in the world.

The youngest founder ever named to Fast Company's Innovation by Design.

Now I'm going one layer deeper.

My next step is building something generational that pushes the frontiers of human knowledge.

Build it with me.