65 verified founders

Shaan Guru

Shaan Guru

17
Orlando, Florida, United States•Other
Arushi Nath

Arushi Nath

15
Toronto, Ontario, Canada•Tech
Jesse Rumball-Smith

Jesse Rumball-Smith

18
Wellington, New Zealand•Tech

Youngest ever winner of the Transportation Group NZ Research Grant (2023–2024). Helped establish New Zealand's first-ever independent ISEF national affiliation — previously NZ students competed under Australia's delegation.

Divine Osuji

Divine Osuji

17
Chicago, United States•Healthcare

2025 National STEM Champion for developing a cost-effective, muscle-controlled hand prosthetic (Lane Tech; CBS News Chicago coverage notes the award and his work).

Jia Mingxuan

Jia Mingxuan

14
Aohan Banner, China•Other

Gold medal winner (youth group) at the 77th iENA Nuremberg International Invention Exhibition 2025 — one of the world's three major invention fairs — beating 540+ inventions from 21 countries with a low-cost, hand-built device.

Arzouma Sorgho

Arzouma Sorgho

18
Saaba, Burkina Faso•Manufacturing

At 18, presented a locally built solar-powered electric quadricycle (“Eude”) to Burkina Faso’s Ministry of Secondary Education (4 Jul 2025) — reported by Les Faits d’ici citing the ministry’s communications.

Ali Al Loughani

Ali Al Loughani

15
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates•Healthcare

Youngest participant at the 6th International Inventions and Trade Expo in London (September 2024), competing against 285 inventors worldwide. Gold medal winner at the 2024 Silicon Valley International Invention Festival.

Aarav Rao

Aarav Rao

15
Plano, United States•Tech

Youngest (age 15) Texas Standard–profiled builder of an AI-powered waste-sorting bin (SmartBin) and companion recycling app (RecyclAI) — covered by Texas Standard / Texas Public Radio (Apr 21, 2026) and listed as chapter president contact by STEM for Others (Jasper HS chapter).

Vedant Vohra

Vedant Vohra

17
New York City, NY, United States•Tech

Reached 60K+ people across all platforms with CTDnyc; app live on iOS and Android; won Mitsubishi x BYD Business Competition ($1000); pitch to Manhattan Borough President's Office recognized; runs podcast on housing systems change (25+ episodes); 4x AIME Qualifier; Hawley Award (top 3 GPA in class of 132).

Isaque Borges

Isaque Borges

17
Palmas, Brazil•Tech

First winner from Brazil in The Earth Prize (Central & South America category), at age 16 — stated in The Earth Prize’s 2025 winner communications.

Eniola Shokunbi

Eniola Shokunbi

12
Middletown, Connecticut, United States•Healthcare

Believed to be the youngest person to directly catalyze $11.5M in U.S. state government funding for a self-initiated public health invention.

Kevin Tang

Kevin Tang

14
Hacienda Heights, United States•Healthcare

Named "America's Top Young Scientist" 2025 — winner of the 3M Young Scientist Challenge, the nation's premier middle school science competition, at age 13.

Amara Nwuneli

Amara Nwuneli

17
Lagos, Nigeria•Other

Africa regional winner of The Earth Prize 2025 for Preserve Our Roots’ G.R.E.E.N. Sustainability Park initiative, recognized at age 17 (The Earth Prize; Business Insider Africa, Apr 2025).

Ava Hauck

Ava Hauck

17
Dickinson, United States•Healthcare

At 17, earned a $50,000 Innovate ND grant to commercialize Clinivue LLC — her patent-pending AI blood-disease diagnostic (including malaria) — as documented by KFYR (Mar 2026).

Cynthia Zhang

Cynthia Zhang

17
Great Neck, United States•Other

Youngest Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes winner (2025) on Long Island, recognized at age 17 for founding Monarchs Matter — Gloria Barron Prize winners profile (2025).

Okechukwu Nwaozor

Okechukwu Nwaozor

17
Osogbo, Nigeria•Tech

Built one of Nigeria’s earliest teen-led homegrown generative-AI platforms (OkeyMeta/OkeyAI), founded at 14 in 2022 — based on Techpoint Africa’s profile of the company and founder [estimated superlative — flag for verification].

Raul Aju

Raul Aju

16
Kochi, India•Tech

Dubbed 'AI Kid of India' — widely cited as the youngest entrepreneur to advise the Kerala state government on AI, and one of the youngest founders in India to run a registered AI technology company with full-time employees.

Vick Tan

Vick Tan

17
Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States•Other

Co-founded Fish Hut and, at age 16, was named a 2025 Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes winner for expanding free-access “Fish Hut boxes” and youth fishing festivals to support youth mental health (Barron Prize 2025 winners announcement).

Giuliana Demma

Giuliana Demma

15
Freehold, United States•Healthcare

Founded G’s Giving Gowns at age 11 and grew it into a pediatric care nonprofit shipping custom hospital gowns to 40+ U.S. states and multiple countries — an unusually large distribution footprint for an age-11 founder. [estimated superlative — flag for verification]

Aeshnina Aqilani

Aeshnina Aqilani

18
Gresik, Indonesia•Other

One of just three finalists for the 2025 International Children’s Peace Prize (KidsRights / Global Child Forum), recognized at age 17 for campaigning against plastic-waste exports to Indonesia — KidsRights finalist announcement (Nov 3, 2025).

Sophie Zeng

Sophie Zeng

17
La Jolla, San Diego, California, United States•Tech

Built and deployed a 90% accurate invasive-plant identification model and co-founded Project ARISE while still in high school (age ~15–16) — notable youth achievement cited by Barron Prize and local press. [estimated superlative — flag for verification]

Yashika Garg

Yashika Garg

16
Tampa, United States•Healthcare

Won 1st Place (FL-15) in the 2025 Congressional App Challenge for NeuroPath — per the official Congressional App Challenge FL15-25 winners page (Jan 20, 2026).

Rexan Wong

Rexan Wong

18
China•Tech

At age 17, built Text Behind Image in 3 hours and grew it to 300K users and #1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt — per rexanwong.com (project stats) and HKIS/Young Post coverage.

Yashwin Adusumilli

Yashwin Adusumilli

16
Parkland, United States•Other

Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes 2025 Runner-Up at age 16 for Marine Guard biofilters combating harmful algal blooms in South Florida — Barron Prize 2025 winners/runners-up listing (2025).

Naya Ellis

Naya Ellis

16
New Orleans, United States•Healthcare

At 14, selected as a National STEM Challenge Champion (one of 126 out of 2,500+ U.S. student entries) for inventing the WingItt stroke-detection watch — The 74 / National STEM Challenge coverage (Mar 2024).

Vivian Liu

Vivian Liu

17
Katy, Texas, United States•Other

Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes 2025 Winner ($10,000), recognized at age 16 for co-founding Origami For Good and scaling it to 200+ chapters across 50+ countries — Barron Prize winners list (2025).

Jaiwardhan Tyagi

Jaiwardhan Tyagi

13
Ghaziabad, India•Healthcare

At age 13, secured a ₹60 lakh investment from Aman Gupta on Shark Tank India Season 5 (Episode 11, aired Jan 2026) for Neurapex AI — reported by The Indian Express (Jan 2026).

Carla McDonnell

Carla McDonnell

16
Drogheda, Ireland•Other

First Irish winner of NFTE’s World Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge (World Champion) — won in New York for Vax Chill (Nov 2025).

Amal Eltayib

Amal Eltayib

17
Iowa City, United States•Tech

Selected as a 2026 Coca-Cola Scholar (150 students nationwide) at age 17 — per Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation’s 2026 Scholar bios page.

Joshua Danrich

Joshua Danrich

16
St. Louis, United States•Retail

At age 16, got Mr. Fresh automobile air fresheners onto Walmart shelves across ~150 Missouri stores — reported by St. Louis Magazine (Aug 27, 2025).

Harrison Nott

Harrison Nott

16
Maldon, Essex, United Kingdom•Retail

At 15, became Alibaba.com CoCreate Pitch Europe 2025 Grand Winner for CoolTowel — chosen from 14,000+ applicants at CoCreate Europe in London (Nov 2025).

Benjamin Davis

Benjamin Davis

17
Wrentham, United States•Manufacturing

One of only two students worldwide to receive the $75,000 Regeneron Young Scientist Award at Regeneron ISEF 2025 (Society for Science).

Aaron Prager

Aaron Prager

16
Newton, United States•Healthcare

Selected as the Eastern Region “Top App” winner in the 2025 Congressional App Challenge after winning MA-04 — advancing from 4,600+ student apps nationwide to the top spot among the East Region’s district champions (U.S. House of Representatives CAC; The Heights, Mar 2026).

Rebecca Young

Rebecca Young

13
Glasgow, United Kingdom•Other

Named to TIME’s inaugural Girls of the Year list (2025) at age 12 for designing a solar-powered heated blanket backpack that won the UK Primary Engineer competition (70,000+ entries) and was prototyped by Thales for Homeless Project Scotland — TIME and BBC Scotland (Aug 2025).

Alaina Zhang

Alaina Zhang

17
Portsmouth, United States•Other

Founded Harvesting Change and built one of Rhode Island’s first student-run sugar kelp farms to reduce coastal nitrogen pollution by 30%+ — documented by the Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes (2025 winner profile).

Ryan Honary

Ryan Honary

17
Newport Beach, United States•Tech

At 17, won 2nd-place Grand Award in the Embedded Systems category at the 2025 Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) for SensoRy AI’s wildfire-detection network — per Ryan Honary’s official bio (May 2025) and supporting coverage.

Salish Matter

Salish Matter

16
Los Angeles, United States•Retail

Co-founded a national skincare brand (Sincerely Yours) and launched into Sephora at age 15 — one of the youngest known founder-led beauty brand launches at Sephora. [estimated superlative — flag for verification]

Arjun Kommidi

Arjun Kommidi

17
Plano, Texas, United States•Healthcare

Winner of America’s Top Young Innovator 2025 for commercializing the AI-powered MYLIN youth mental health and development insight system — announced by DiscoverSTEM / ACCESS Newswire (Mar 5, 2026).

Sheyna Patel

Sheyna Patel

15
Orlando, United States•Other

Named a national finalist in the 2025 3M Young Scientist Challenge for developing a hydrogel that removes ~93% of PET microplastics from water — per 3M/Young Scientist Lab finalist listing (June 2025) and Spectrum News 13 coverage (Oct 2025).

Mithran Ladhania

Mithran Ladhania

17
Indore, India•Healthcare

Won The Earth Prize 2025 (Asia region) at age 16–17 for Thermavault, a first-of-its-kind electricity-free, reusable salt-reaction medical cold-chain unit designed to keep supplies at temperature for up to 12 hours — announced by The Earth Prize (Apr 22, 2025).

Kande Sill

Kande Sill

16
Kingston, Jamaica•Healthcare

One of the youngest known recipients of the Arkwright Engineering Scholarship for engineering talent in the UK, awarded at age 16 — based on public coverage and UTC Reading announcement. [estimated superlative — flag for verification]

Mia Heller

Mia Heller

18
Nokesville, United States•Tech

Regeneron ISEF 2025 finalist who built a self-recycling ferrofluid-based water filter removing 95.52% of microplastics (and recycling 87.15% of the ferrofluid) — reported by Smithsonian Magazine (Mar 2026).

Amaira Srivastava

Amaira Srivastava

15
Gilbert, United States•Other

2nd-place finisher in the 2025 3M Young Scientist Challenge (Discovery Education / 3M Young Scientist Lab), at age 14 — finalist profile and competition coverage.

Ethan Hua

Ethan Hua

17
San Mateo, California, United States•Other

Founded and scaled the H.O.P.E. school-uniform recycling program to operate across 10 schools in 3 San Mateo County districts, diverting 13,500+ garments from landfills and redistributing 11,700+ uniforms to 1,400+ families (founded ~age 11–12) — per H.O.P.E. site and Barron Prize 2025 winner profile.

Dhruv Chaudhary

Dhruv Chaudhary

17
Indore, India•Healthcare

Asia regional winner of The Earth Prize 2025 for Thermavault — an electricity-free salt-reaction medical cold-chain unit (ages 16–17, announced Apr 2025).

Sirish Subash

Sirish Subash

15
Snellville, United States•Tech

America’s Top Young Scientist (Grand Prize winner) of the 2024 3M Young Scientist Challenge at age 14 — announced by 3M / PRNewswire (Oct 16, 2024).

Miles Wu

Miles Wu

15
New York, United States•Tech

Won the 2025 Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge top prize (Thermo Fisher Scientific ASCEND Award, $25,000) at age 14 — announced by Society for Science (Oct 28, 2025).

Cooper Taylor

Cooper Taylor

18
Greenwich, United States•Tech

Won the Chief of Naval Research Scholarship Award ($15,000) for his “Next-Generation VTOL Drones” project at the 2025 Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair — reported by Dronexl (Jun 2025) and local coverage.

Anisha Dhoot

Anisha Dhoot

16
Portland, United States•Other

Built EARTH-ai, a machine-learning crop-selection model trained on a 17,000-parameter environmental dataset and reported at 99% predictive accuracy, while still 16 — documented in the Gloria Barron Prize 2025 winners profile. [estimated superlative — flag for verification]

Michael Goldstein

Michael Goldstein

14
Toronto, Canada•Tech

Built and launched a weather balloon project at age 13 that reached high enough altitude to visibly show the curvature of the Earth, earning CNN coverage (Apr 2024) — widely cited in his public bio and press profiles.

Siddharth Nandyala

Siddharth Nandyala

15
Frisco, United States•Healthcare

Recognized by Andhra Pradesh CM N. Chandrababu Naidu as the world’s youngest AI‑certified professional (Oracle + ARM) while building Circadian AI — source: CM’s public X post (Mar 2025).

Srihan Sankepalle

Srihan Sankepalle

16
Northville, Michigan, United States•Other

Built a microplastics-removal system that he reports costs ~90% less than comparable commercial solutions and runs on UV light — recognized in the 2025 Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes winner profile (Barron Prize, 2025).

Daniel Thomas

Daniel Thomas

17
Colleyville, United States•Other

Received the U.S. EPA’s 2024 President’s Environmental Youth Award (EPA Region 6) for founding LitterScout and organizing cleanups across Euless, Colleyville, and Grapevine that kept 16,703 lbs of trash out of waterways — per EPA press release (July 16, 2024).

Nicolina Pappas

Nicolina Pappas

14
Rock Island, United States•Other

At age 14, successfully authored and testified for Illinois state resolutions adopted by both chambers, declaring April 1 as “Skip the Plastic Day” — documented in the 2025 Gloria Barron Prize winner profile (Sep 2025) and local coverage (WQAD, Aug 14, 2025).

Nikhil Garg

Nikhil Garg

17
Gurugram, India•Tech

Built and sold Zodiac Labs AI to Nitro Commerce at age 17 — acquisition announced publicly by Nikhil Garg on LinkedIn and described as a “17-year-old” founder exit in public coverage (Mar 2026).

Matthew Vila

Matthew Vila

17
Miami, United States•Education

Won the 2025 Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes for founding Harmony Hugs at age 16 — winner profile on Barron Prize (Sept 2025).

Maximilian Kopp

Maximilian Kopp

18
Fort Washington, United States•Healthcare

Placed in the Top 3 in Engineering at the National Junior Science & Humanities Symposium (JSHS) as a high school student — cited in Max Kopp’s public project write-up (May 2025).

Radhika Goyal

Radhika Goyal

18
San Jose, United States•Education

Believed to be among the youngest founders in the Bay Area to scale a multi-chapter youth tech-education initiative focused on girls and low-income students (TechPower4All) while still in high school — [estimated superlative — flag for verification]

Anoushka Poddar

Anoushka Poddar

17
Mumbai, India•Retail

Founded Snazz at age 13—positioned as India’s first major teenager-focused personal care brand—making them one of the youngest founders in India to launch a dedicated teen personal-care line (reported by YourStory, Kidsstoppress, and Snazz’s official site).

Alby Churven

Alby Churven

14
Wollongong, Australia•Tech

Became one of the youngest founders to reach a national business profile as the 14-year-old founder of Clovr after his Y Combinator application video went viral on X (AOL / Business Insider syndicated, Dec 28, 2025).

Holden Bierman

Holden Bierman

17
Holly Springs, United States•Retail

One of the youngest U.S. founders to launch and run a sustainability-linked swimwear brand (Coastal Cool) starting at age 12–13 — documented by ABC News (Oct 2025) and WECT (Apr 2026). [estimated superlative — flag for verification]

Anika Bhat

Anika Bhat

17
Fremont, United States•Healthcare

Received a U.S. utility patent for the portable electronic asthma monitoring device MEDeBuddy, granted Dec 23, 2025 at age 17 — reported by Tri City Voice (Feb 10, 2026).

Dikshant Pandey

Dikshant Pandey

17
Kathmandu, Nepal•Tech

At 17, built and launched GuffGPT, widely described in Nepali media as Nepal’s first Nepali-language AI chatbot, and secured $150,000 in Microsoft Azure cloud support to scale it (Feb 2026) [estimated superlative — flag for verification].

Samaira Mehta

Samaira Mehta

18
Mountain View, United States•Education

Founded and built CoderBunnyz as a coding-education board game at age 8, later adopted by 100+ schools — documented in multiple profiles/interviews (e.g., EdSurge and Career Girls).

Heman Bekele

Heman Bekele

17
Annandale, United States•Healthcare

Won the 2023 3M Young Scientist Challenge (“America’s Top Young Scientist”) at age 14 for proposing Melanoma Treating Soap (MTS) — announced by Young Scientist Lab / Discovery Education.