Archive · 30 Nov 2025
Teenagers from India Join Y Combinator
Two 18-year-old boys from India, Aayam Bansal and Ishaan Gangwani, have been chosen for a special program called Y Combinator.
This program helps new companies grow.
Aayam and Ishaan started a company called InkVell, which uses AI to help people turn their research into nice-looking documents.
They will join the program in January.
Their company is already doing well and has received money from investors.
Y Combinator is known for helping many successful companies, and its former president is Sam Altman, who is now the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT.
Two 18-year-old teenagers, Aayam Bansal and Ishaan Gangwani, have been selected for Y Combinator’s incubator programme.
They founded InkVell, a company that uses AI to transform research into publication-ready documents.
InkVell was registered in San Francisco in September 2025 and will join the Y Combinator programme in January.
The company has raised $1.4 million from venture capital firms like Cory Levy (Z-Fellows) and FireStreak Ventures.
Y Combinator, founded in 2005, has funded over 5,000 companies, including Zepto, Groww, and Razorpay.
- Who
- Aayam Bansal and Ishaan Gangwani, two 18-year-old teenagers from India
- What
- Selected for Y Combinator’s incubator programme with their startup, InkVell
- When
- Program starts in January; company registered in September 2025
- Where
- San Francisco, USA
- Why
- To accelerate their startup, InkVell, which helps transform research into publication-ready documents
- Teenagers
- Aayam Bansal and Ishaan Gangwani
- Company
- InkVell
- Program
- Y Combinator’s incubator programme
- Program Start Date
- January
- Company Registration
- San Francisco, September 2025
- Investors
- Cory Levy (Z-Fellows) and FireStreak Ventures