Jeet Adani and Shark Tank Come Together To Encourage Innovation for People with Disabilities
Mumbai, 5 Feb 2025: Jeet Adani, the world’s youngest airport infrastructure developer, is offering mentorship and support through Shark Tank to entrepreneurs with disabilities and entrepreneurs who are working for people with disabilities. In a special program, titled ‘Gateway to Shark Tank – Divyang Special’, Jeet Adani and Anupam Mittal discussed the dire need for focused interventions in this domain. With an aim to encourage innovation in this field, entries are invited till 15 February 2025, after which pitches will be shortlisted for the ongoing season of Shark Tank.
“There is potential to disrupt this space,” said Jeet Adani. “We need more passionate people to create solutions for problems faced by people with disabilities. I am excited to partner and support entrepreneurs to help bring about this change, in whatever way possible.”
Jeet Adani, younger son of billionaire philanthropist Gautam Adani, is Director of Adani Airports – today India’s largest airport infrastructure company with eight international airports in its management and development portfolio. Apart from the airports business, he oversees the Adani Group’s defence, petrochemicals and copper businesses. He is also in charge of the Group’s digital transformation.
Inspired by Dr Priti Adani, his mother, who evolved the Adani Foundation from a small rural project in Mundra, Gujarat, into a global force for change, Jeet is keenly interested in philanthropic initiatives. He has catalysed various collaborations facilitated by the Foundation, with a focus on supporting people with disabilities.
India has more than 25 crore people with disabilities. The special Shark Tank program featuring Jeet Adani and entrepreneurs, working to resolve problems faced by people with disabilities, is to be produced and released in the early part of this year.
