Suneet Singh Tuli
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Suneet Singh Tuli | |
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| Born | 1968 (age 57–58) |
| Citizenship | Canadian |
| Education | Civil Engineering Graduate |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto |
| Occupation | Enterpreuner |
| Organization | Datawind |
| Notable work | Founder of Datawind and other companies, Ubislate Tablets, Aakash (tablet) Tablet |
| Awards | 18 patents |
| Website | http://datawind.com; http://ubislate.com |
Suneet Singh Tuli is the co-founder of DataWind. He was born in 1968 to Lakhvir Singh, the head of an entrepreneurial Sikh family.[1][2] He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1990 in Applied Sciences in Engineering.[3] As a student he started working In his brother Raja Tuli's entrepreneurial firm, Widekom.[4] He developed the objective of developing sales of large size fax machines.[5] His machines were recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records.[4][5][1]
In his second venture, he created battery-operated handheld printers and hand-held scanners for DocuPort Company.[2] These two companies were among the first formed by people of Indian origin to IPO on NASDAQ.[2] Most recently, Datawind's Aakash/Ubislate tablets attracted attention due to its affordable price.[6]
