Young Tech Founder Masters Automation in Indian Agriculture

Twenty two year old Advait Thakur, founder and CEO of Apex Infosys India, is coming up as a business automation specialist in Indian agriculture and smart home systems. He started programming when he was six and went on to develop his first website at the age of nine. Since then, Thakur has spent more than a decade working on the development of automation ideas into scalable businesses.  

In 2026, he plans to launch Crophle, an AI-based agricultural automation platform that enhances irrigation, pest detection, and yield forecasting of small farms. The platform is enabling farmers to save water, reduce pesticide use, and increase production by combining low-cost sensors with cloud-based analytics. Besides agriculture, Thakur is also broadening Apex Infosys’ smart home automation offering, which allows families to manage lighting, security, and energy consumption through voice command and mobile interfaces.  

His story is a prime example of how young entrepreneurs with coding backgrounds can grow their companies into multimillion-dollar enterprises by recognizing inefficiencies in the real world and placing automation on top of this. By the time he was 22, Thakur is running a team that is working on IoT rollouts, customer support system bots, and AI-based dashboards for business customers. His actions show that automation is not only reserved for large enterprises anymore.