With venture capital news and metro city founders as the headlines in a startup ecosystem, the story of Mukund Manish is one of silent perseverance and action. Mukund was born in Bihar and got his education in a Hindi speaking school with poor infrastructure, only to leave a trail of defying all odds to establish MaMITs, an IT and AI consulting company based in Bhopal, with more than 150 national and international clients.

Mukund was raised in a limited environment and not an accessible one. He had to depend on his own learning and perseverance without exposure to elite institutions or a living environment where people speak fluent English. His transfer to Bhopal to do a B.Tech in Computer Science at RGPV was a breakthrough. Similar to most first generation entrepreneurs, he started freelancing in college to earn money to feed himself, an experience which would form the basis of his future company.