
104 verified founders


Jesse Rumball-Smith
18Youngest 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
172025 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
14Gold 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
18At 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
15Youngest 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
15Youngest (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
17Reached 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
17First 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
12Believed 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
14Named "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
17Africa 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
17At 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
17Youngest 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
17Built 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
16Dubbed '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
17Co-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
15Founded 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
18One 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
17Built 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
16Won 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
18At 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
16Gloria 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
16At 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
17Gloria 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
13At 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
16First Irish winner of NFTE’s World Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge (World Champion) — won in New York for Vax Chill (Nov 2025).

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

Joshua Danrich
16At 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
16At 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
17One of only two students worldwide to receive the $75,000 Regeneron Young Scientist Award at Regeneron ISEF 2025 (Society for Science).
Aaron Prager
16Selected 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
13Named 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
17Founded 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
17At 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
16Co-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
17Winner 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
15Named 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
17Won 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
16One 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
18Regeneron 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
152nd-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
17Founded 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
17Asia 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
15America’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
15Won 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
18Won 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
16Built 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
14Built 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
15Recognized 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
16Built 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
17Received 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
14At 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
17Built 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
17Won the 2025 Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes for founding Harmony Hugs at age 16 — winner profile on Barron Prize (Sept 2025).

Maximilian Kopp
18Placed 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).
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Radhika Goyal
18Believed 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
17Founded 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
14Became 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
17One 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
17Received 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
17At 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
18Founded 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
17Won 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.
Ísis Valentin
17Central & South America Regional Winner of The Earth Prize 2026 — the world's largest environmental competition for students aged 13–19 ($100,000 prize pool); selected from 6,095 entries across 160+ countries.
Helena do Rego
17North America Regional Winner of The Earth Prize 2026 — the world's largest environmental competition for students aged 13–19 ($100,000 prize pool); selected from 6,095 entries across 160+ countries.
Fredrick Njoroge Kariuki
17Africa Regional Winner of The Earth Prize 2026 — the world's largest environmental competition for students aged 13–19 ($100,000 prize pool); selected from 6,095 entries across 160+ countries.
Brian Ohebshalom
18Noah Fakheri
18Do Duc Anh Le
16Mai Anh Le
16Carlos Morret
17Carla McDonnell
16First Irish winner of the NFTE World Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge (2025)
Sunkalp Chandra
18Co-founded an Alzheimer's AI startup and published research at IEEE BigData 2024 conference while still a high school student; one of the youngest healthcare AI founders with a peer-reviewed publication
Arjun Tyagi
1618th globally (Gold Medal) at IOAI 2025 (310 students, 60+ countries) as a Class XI student from Delhi. One of 3 Indian gold medalists at India's debut IOAI, where India placed 3rd in the medal table. Also INOI Silver + IOITC qualified = dual elite competitive programmer.
Mythreya Dharani
18Jinan Woo
18Justin Bernstein
17Amy Xiao
18Brad Wu
17Ethan Yan
16Elizabeth Hanechak
18Hannah Cairo
18Yanin Tangkaravakoon
17Tala Mousa
17Arya Satheesh
18Mridul Jain
17Almaha Almansoori
16Fatma Hussen
16Jourey Abdullah
17Israa Ashraf
16Yume Yorita
17Ajsel Budlla
17First Albanian high school student to win the EIT Digital Innovation Award at Gen-E (Europe's largest youth entrepreneurship festival, 400,000+ students). One of only 4 students selected to represent Albania at the European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad (EGMO) 2024. Won 'Get in the Ring' prize at Gen-E 2025 — a startup pitch competition run in partnership with leading European VCs.
Avyana Mehta
16Ariana Agarwal
16Vivaan Chhawchharia
16Zinia Khattar
18Peter Dulay
15William Tan
15Zeynep Demirbas
14Rabani Bajaj
16Dom Pecora
16Madhvi Chittoor
13Holds 2 Guinness World Records; one of the youngest UN Child Advisors.
Madeleine Chin
13Self-published two novels and founded a literacy nonprofit by age 12 — one of the youngest nonprofit founders in Long Island recorded by local press.