Sunday, September 20
At 11 am, the Google Meet buzzes and there’s Dhiraj Gatmane, the 17-yearold founder of Stoodive. The start is a little rusty. “Where are you from?” I ask. “Near Maharashtra,” he says. “Where exactly?” “Have you heard of Dadra & Nagar Haveli?” I have, but Gatmane still confirms if I am familiar with the small Union territory on the Maharashtra border. Yet that tentativeness about his location didn’t stop him from starting his company Stoodive in February with collaborators from across the world—many of whom he found on LinkedIn, which he joined just last November.Stoodive is his solution to a real-world problem: finding a professor or a research guide for project work. He calls it the world’s first social networking platform for researchers—“a Bumble + Linked
