Founded by Sashank Reddy Gujjula, Anupam Pedarla and Rahul Attuluri, NxtWave is on a mission to build India’s largest online employability university for 4.0 tech careers without the need for a conventional college degree. The startup aims to produce one million new-age developers every year. Presently, the startup offers vernacular, asynchronous and online cohort-based training programmes in Industry 4.0 Tech career tracks for college students, graduates and early professionals. In the last 6 months, 250+ companies have hired NxtWave graduates including the likes of Google, Jio, among others. NxtWave has built an active student community of 200,000+ students from over 3,000 colleges and currently has paid customers from 250+ districts with more than 85% of them coming from non-metros and rural areas.