Meet Puru Agrawal the 26-Year-Old who is digitizing the Mining Industry and making it more efficient than ever

April 22, 2020 at 05:18 AM EDT

How a 26-year-old, from a regular engineering college and no prior experience, turned to a successful tech entrepreneur.

Raipur, Apr 22, 2020 (Issuewire.com) - Puru Agrawal is a young and dynamic entrepreneur, who was born on 4 June 1993 in Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India. Puru Agrawal completed his secondary education from Holy Cross Byron Bazar, Raipur and then moved to SSIPMT, Raipur to pursue his B.E. in Computer Science Engineering. He is the Co-Founder and Director at Minocular (BlueBanyan Technologies Pvt. Ltd.) India. Where he leads the overall operations and execution. He has 6 years of experience in the field of Software project management, Computer programming and hands-on experience with managing and launching products at different verticles of the industry.

Minocular co-founded by Puru Agrawal, is a SAAS based platform for the mining industry, it's a suite of Applications and customized Hardware that is redefining mining intelligence & the overall work mechanism to attain Maximum Efficiency in Production & Utilization of Assets using IoT and Machine Learning.

Puru is a hands-on guy who manages the entire lifecycle of any software project and particularly IoT projects. Mining is a domain where Puru holds vast experience in technology implementation. Puru solves the on-ground problems faced by any mining company by a tech-enabled solution.

Puru during his college life was a very skilled programmer and has won several awards and recognitions in competitive programming. Also, a tech-enthusiast has been featured in newspapers like Dainik Bhaskar, Patrika etc. for his views and opinions on different technology domain topics.

Puru's startup Minocular has been awarded as "The Startup of the Year" by Entrepreneur Organization (EO), his startup was also in top 10 startups at the 10-minute pitch competition in IIT Mumbai, his startup has also been selected as top 3 best startups by Headstart at "Headstart-X". Puru's startup has also been covered by various media houses like Yourstory, INC42, Forbes etc.

Puru comes from a traditional Agrawal family, his father is a Chartered Accountant. Completing his engineering and then finding a good IT job was his plan like any other engineering student. He was also placed in many companies from the campus placement drives. But, instead of joining the IT company, he decided to start his own.

Right after graduating, he met his co-founder Mohit, who too at that time was a fresh college pass out and they started BlueBanyan together. For the first few months, like every IT company, they were happy with getting software projects and managing a small team of developers. By this time his family understood his inclination towards entrepreneurship and started supporting it.

Puru comes from Chhattisgarh, a state which has huge mineral reserves and Mining is one of the most important activities there. His small company BlueBanyan, which till date was making only software, transformed into a company which working on disruptive technologies solving some of the hardest problems of the industry and affecting the real lives of people.

Lastly, as mentioned earlier, do reach out to young entrepreneur like Puru Agrawal by sending him a message on their Instagram https://www.instagram.com/puru_ag/ or Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/agrawalpuru, or find him on CrunchBase https://www.crunchbase.com/person/puru-agrawal-72c0