{"id":1020721,"date":"2026-07-14T08:47:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020721"},"modified":"2026-07-14T08:51:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:21:24","slug":"he-had-no-mobile-or-internet-and-then-karnataka-techies-rs-900-cr-startup-won-nasa-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/14\/he-had-no-mobile-or-internet-and-then-karnataka-techies-rs-900-cr-startup-won-nasa-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"He had no mobile or internet and then Karnataka techie\u2019s Rs 900 cr startup won NASA funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Born in Aldur, a village in Chikmagalur district of Karnataka, about five hours away from Bengaluru, Awais Ahmed neither had access to the internet nor a smartphone until he was in eighth grade. The result? He ended up spending most of his time reading encyclopedias on space, science and technology \u2014 a habit that ultimately laid the foundation for his never-ending pursuit of interstellar marvels and a village-to-metro cities arc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in Aldur, a village in Chikmagalur district of Karnataka, about five hours away from Bengaluru, Awais Ahmed neither had access to the internet nor a smartphone until he was in eighth grade. The result? He ended up spending most of his time reading encyclopedias on space, science and technology \u2014 a habit that ultimately laid the foundation for his never-ending pursuit of interstellar marvels and a village-to-metro cities arc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020744,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020721\/revisions\/1020744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}