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Emergent Ventures India, 20th cohort

Marginal Revolution · Oct 25, 2026 · 12:42 AM ET

Zahan Turel, a backend engineer and eighth-generation Zoroastrian priest from Surat, received a grant to digitize his community’s manuscripts and liturgical records before they are lost. Aditya Vijay, 17, is building Forge, supporting overlooked, self-taught young founders with shared housing, capital, and access. Dev Goyal received a grant for SCRIPT, exploring whether stylus-based drawing...

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