MU student startups have excelled in the Babson Collaborative Global Student Challenge by securing two of the top three positions. Harvested Robotics and EXtrive Innovations, founded by MU students and incubated at Atal Incubation Center bagged second and third place, respectively. This makes them the only Indian teams in the top three.

The competition featured 2,414 students and 665 startup teams from 20 different countries, underscoring the global scale of this challenge.

EXtrive was founded by Abhishek Pratap, Ronak Oinam, Prem Ningombam, and Yashaswi Matla. Harvested was started by Rahul Arepaka and George Mathew.

Business mentorship for both teams was provided by CEI and AIC Mahindra’s Dr. Rajkumar Phatate, Keerthi Kadam, Abhinav Chaturvedi, and Ismail Akbani, with Professors Bhaskar Tamma and Bharghava Rajaram offering technical guidance.