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IIT Graduate and IIM Gold Medalist Leaves Foreign Job to Fuel Indian Startups
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News18•08-10-2026, 13:32
IIT Graduate and IIM Gold Medalist Leaves Foreign Job to Fuel Indian Startups
- •Siddhant Agarwal, the Institute Rank-1 and Gold Medalist of IIM Ahmedabad's 2022-24 batch, hails from Lucknow and completed his engineering from IIT Kharagpur.
- •He scored an impressive 99.97 percentile in the CAT exam in his very first attempt and chose IIM Ahmedabad over Bangalore and Calcutta.
- •After working in America with Capital One, he returned to India and is currently working as an Associate Vice President at Elevation Capital.
- •He maintains that discipline and clear priorities were key to balancing rigorous academic success with campus life.
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Siddhant Agarwal completed an integrated dual degree in Mechanical and Financial Engineering from IIT Kharagpur and achieved a 99.97 percentile in the CAT exam in his very first attempt.
After leaving behind a foreign job in America and winning the Institute Rank-1 gold medal for the 2022-24 batch at IIM Ahmedabad, Siddhant Agarwal is working as an Associate Vice President at the venture capital firm Elevation Capital in India.
Siddhant Agarwal received admission offers from all three premier IIMs in the country, namely Ahmedabad, Bangalore, and Calcutta, ultimately choosing to pursue his MBA at IIM Ahmedabad.
