Who is the youngest person in the U.S. to ever raise venture capital funding? Vip Sitaraman.
Vip—no relation to Very Important Person, although he is pretty damn cool—is a 3-time entrepreneur, scientist, and designer extraordinaire. He is at the helm of
GMTRY (parent company of
Draw Science,
RXN, and
Explica), an open access publishing platform that turns academic papers into infographics. Did we mention he's 18 years old?