Nirmit Parikh is an Indian entrepreneur, CEO, and founder of Apna (a professional job search platform founded in 2019). In just 21 months, as of May 2023, the company gained a valuation of $1.1 billion.
Education & Career Time Line
Nirmit Parikh was born and raised in Mumbai, India. After completing high school and intermediate he enrolled at an Engineering college to pursue a B.Tech degree. Let's see a year-on-year basis his education and career journey.
2005
In 2005, he enrolled at Nirma Institute Of Technology (Ahmedabad, Gujrat) to pursue a B.Tech degree in Instrumentation & Control Engineering stream from where he graduated in 2009.
2009
In 2009, after completing his graduation Nirmit founded his first venture "Incone Technologies", the company deals in Control systems in the Hydropower Automation & IT sectors.
2012
In 2012, he founded his second venture "Cruxbot" (an Artificial Intelligence data analytics solution that helps to automatically highlight the most important concepts on the webpage).
2013
He sold Cruxbot to Kno Inc, Intel Corp. For the next 10 months Nov 2013 to Aug 2014, he worked at Intel Corporation as director of new products.
2014
In 2014, Nirmit Parikh enrolled at Stanford University Graduate School for Business in the US to pursue the Master of Business Administration (MBA) course, he completed his MBA in 2016.
2016
After completing his MBA, Nirmit joined Apple where he worked in the product & strategy department, in 2018 he resigned from Apple and returned to India just before the COVID-19 outbreak.
2019
In 2019, Nirmit Parikh founded one of his most successful ventures "Apna" that gained more than a billion dollar valuation within 2 years of its foundation.