Vijender Reddy Muthyala

Vijender (VJ) is the Co-founder and CEO of DrinkPrime, India’s leading drinking water solution provider. 50% of India does not have access to safe drinking water and DrinkPrime is focused on solving this problem. Under his leadership, DrinkPrime has been recognised as a part of Fast Company’s ‘The 10 most innovative Asia-Pacific companies of 2021’ and in Forbes Asia 100 To Watch list. VJ has utilised his expertise in technology and product development to build India’s first smart water purifier available on a subscription basis. Using the Internet of Things (IoT), DrinkPrime constantly monitors the water quality received by every subscriber to ensure they get clean and safe drinking water. This innovative approach has led to DrinkPrime being backed by Sequoia Surge, Omidyar Network, Alteria, UC Inclusive Credit, and Western Capital among other notable investors. Before starting DrinkPrime, VJ was in the compiler research team at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) where he worked on next gen AMD servers. He is a Master of Engineering