More about Sumeet Mahendra
He has pursued a BS in Environmental Studies from the BU, then contributed to prominent National English dailies while he was in New Delhi.
Sumeet is the 3rd Gen Entrepreneur, launched RTIwala as a blog in late 2017, and scaled to a full fledged growing Legaltech startup with 1,00,600+ users.
He has received multiple awards from CMs and Cabinet Ministers of three different states and won many National & International Level B-plan/Startup Competition(s). The prominent ones are Maharashtra Startup Week 20021, Technoviti Award 2021 by Banking Frontiers and Ernst and Young; Dream Startup Challenge by CII & Yi 2020, Governance 2020 by Dy. CM Gujarat and Top 25 National Startups by TiE Lucknow and Venture Catalysts etc.,
He and his startup have been covered by national media more than 55 times and also featured by the TiE Silicon Valley (USA) in the month of May 2020 and praised by NITI Aayog twice. His startup is not part of IIM-A, BITS-PILANI and recently selected in super exclusive group of Startup for the DST & MEITY, Govt of India Grants.
About his startup:
RTIwala is a citizen-centric Legaltech startup, empowering the masses through sensible content & affordable legal services. We've organically gained 1,00,600+ users including prominent media houses, big MNCs, Real Estate & Legal Firms, and Bureaucrats, as our paid users in less than two years of Beta launch.
We help people in exercising their Right To Information by Drafting and Filing Online RTI applications, First Appeal, Second Appeal, and CIC & Consumer Right Complaints.
The RTIwala Team also provides 10 mins Micro Consultation on RTI/Legal issues at affordable pricing. People will get data-driven and analytically researched content in the form of Reports, Articles, Listicles, Charticles, News, and Interviews on the RTIwala.com website.
Sumeet is the 3rd Gen Entrepreneur, launched RTIwala as a blog in late 2017, and scaled to a full fledged growing Legaltech startup with 1,00,600+ users.
He has received multiple awards from CMs and Cabinet Ministers of three different states and won many National & International Level B-plan/Startup Competition(s). The prominent ones are Maharashtra Startup Week 20021, Technoviti Award 2021 by Banking Frontiers and Ernst and Young; Dream Startup Challenge by CII & Yi 2020, Governance 2020 by Dy. CM Gujarat and Top 25 National Startups by TiE Lucknow and Venture Catalysts etc.,
He and his startup have been covered by national media more than 55 times and also featured by the TiE Silicon Valley (USA) in the month of May 2020 and praised by NITI Aayog twice. His startup is not part of IIM-A, BITS-PILANI and recently selected in super exclusive group of Startup for the DST & MEITY, Govt of India Grants.
About his startup:
RTIwala is a citizen-centric Legaltech startup, empowering the masses through sensible content & affordable legal services. We've organically gained 1,00,600+ users including prominent media houses, big MNCs, Real Estate & Legal Firms, and Bureaucrats, as our paid users in less than two years of Beta launch.
We help people in exercising their Right To Information by Drafting and Filing Online RTI applications, First Appeal, Second Appeal, and CIC & Consumer Right Complaints.
The RTIwala Team also provides 10 mins Micro Consultation on RTI/Legal issues at affordable pricing. People will get data-driven and analytically researched content in the form of Reports, Articles, Listicles, Charticles, News, and Interviews on the RTIwala.com website.
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