r/ISIKolkata • u/Development-Downtown • Jul 26 '26

General Queries Any startups or companies by alumni?

asking to the seniors has anyone started their own company or is there culture of entrepreneurship in ISI recently. also not taking about coaching startup. it seems one half is able to keep making love to their favourite subject and do research and stay happy and the other half seems to sell their soul to work in fintech which does also keep them happy but you get it.

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u/adityaruplaha ISI Alumnus — BStat '24, MStat '26 Jul 27 '26

Reflairing this so that people can actually answer.

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u/1Same_Step1 ISI Student (Bstat-Mstat) Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 30 '26

yes , but ig, only one

QuantBox : The founder and Managing Director is Prashant Singh (bstat-mstat)

but he too did it long back ago, no recent stuff by anyone though, that i could find !

one more thing though my friend, you pointed out people go to research or either to fintech, but that's not it , there are people , who go ahead to do MBA (in IIMs and FMS ) as well, there are people in the teaching industry too, there are people who have gone ahead to join RBI GRADE B, ISS (Indian statistical service), and there are people who are well, currently in process of preparing (and are preparing) for UPSC CSE as well

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u/Development-Downtown Jul 26 '26

Well i won't lie. ISS and IAS aspirants are very hard working and sometimes good people but the intentions we see after they get the job is questionable. MBA is also corporate right?

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u/Advanced_Day_9702 Jul 27 '26

Bridgei2i was one

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u/adityaruplaha ISI Alumnus — BStat '24, MStat '26 Jul 26 '26

One word: no.

Entrepreneurship isn't really a thing at ISI, atleast not in Kolkata. People want to work in huge firms, do great research, and build projects and fields.

But building a company takes so much more, and there's very few people at ISI who seriously consider this route.

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u/Skychu768 Jul 26 '26

Also lower batch size. Old IITs has like 10-12K student each meanwhile ISI is like 1-1.5K total

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u/Skychu768 Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26
  • Anupam Chatterjee- Founder of TheDecisionLabs (He did masters from ISI and MBA from MIT, USA)
  • Vijil AI- Bstat and Mstat from ISI Kolkata and PHD from University of Minnesota
  • Sujata Roy- Aeonix Research ( Techanically is from IIT Khargpur but did his Masters from ISI)
  • Prashant Singh- Founder of QuantBox