Founder

Ashish Munjal

Sunstone

“I come from a humble, middle-class family. My parents had government jobs. And education is what changed our lives. But people from small towns don’t always have access to educational opportunity. We started Sunstone to give back to the kinds of communities that raised us.“

Partnered in: 2021
Focus areas:
- Education
- Technology

About Ashish

Ashish Munjal has worked as a Deloitte consultant, an investment banker with BofA, and handled sales and operations at cloud-based telephony provider Knowlarity. After co-founding Crownit, an online consumer research platform, he started to look for his challenge. He reflected on how people from small towns didn’t have access to the same educational opportunities he did, contributing to India’s growing youth employability gap. This led him to create higher education startup Sunstone, which partners with academic institutions to upskill students.

Ashish says his passion for food is “unparalleled” and loves sharing his entrepreneurial experiences over a cup of hot tea.