The founders of Sea6 Energy know in their bones that the company owes its existence to a series of coincidences early in its history. The first of these was in 2009, when founders Sailaja Nori, Nelson Vadasseri, Sayash Kumar and Sowmya Balendiran were students at IIT-Madras. 

They were trying to raise funds for an international competition, and one of their professors had told them to meet Shrikumar Suryanarayan, former R&D head of Biocon and then a visiting professor at IIT-Madras. When the students walked into his room, their best hope was to raise Rs 1 lakh for buying chemicals. They walked out three minutes later with a cheque for Rs 5 lakh..Read more

Source web page: Economic Times