Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash, World’s Fastest Human Calculator Founder and the founder of BHANZU

Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash is the founder and CEO of Bhanzu, which is a maths-learning platform with a meticulously designed curriculum that helps students become 4x quicker and better at maths by nurturing their cognitive abilities and building their core maths acumen.

The company aims to build the most thought-through maths curriculum using personalised AI-aided methodology, which builds students’ confidence by enabling them to apply maths in the real world.

He was listed in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2022 List in the Consumer Technology heading “Bhanzu” in 2022.

Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash has been compared to Usain Bolt in terms of mental maths calculations by the BBC. He took first place in gold in the 2020 Mental Calculation World Championship at the Mind Sports Olympiad. For his mathematical computations, he also has 50 Limca records.

In 2020, Bhanu and his startup were named the Telangana government’s official maths partner. They used recorded maths films to teach kids during the COVID-19 wave, and the movies were streamed on the government of Telangana’s TV channel (T-SAT). Bhanzu asserts that during the pandemic, through its social projects with the local state governments in India, it helped more than two million children.