RAJASTHAN STARTUP QUEST 2026
INNOVATE RAJASTHAN — IDEAS FOR VIKSIT BHARAT
VRAJ

VRAJ

Rajasthan’s youth — rural and urban alike — learn technology by building real products. They never pay a rupee, and they share in what the work earns.

A work-first technology studio for Rajasthan — open to every district, every block and every village in the state. A unit of VRAJHNA Technologies Private Limited.

Yuvraj Sharma
Founder & Managing Director
VRAJHNA Group of Companies
5/544, U.I.T. Bhiwadi
Rajasthan 301019, India
hello@vrajhna.com · +91 99500 98124
01 — THE PROBLEM

Rajasthan educates its young people, then watches them leave.

A diploma holder in Rajasthan and a graduate in Gurgaon can write the same code. Only one of them is ever asked to.

Every year, families across Rajasthan spend what they have on a technical education for a son or daughter. The degree arrives. The work does not. What follows is familiar in almost every household: a capable young person sitting at home, or taking work far below their training, or boarding a bus to Gurgaon and sending money back to a house they no longer live in.

This is not a shortage of talent. It is a shortage of work that reaches them where they are.

WHAT THE NATIONAL DATA SHOWS
25.30%
of India’s technical graduates aged 18–30 are underemployed
Periodic Labour Force Survey, 2023–24
27.55%
among rural graduates — against 24.01% in urban areas
The gap this programme exists to close
30.76%
among engineering diploma holders — the group employers screen out first
The largest untapped pool in the state
Highest
Rajasthan is named among the states with the highest graduate underemployment in India
Alongside Nagaland, Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Kerala
Source: Analysis of PLFS 2023–24 microdata. VRAJ — a unit of VRAJHNA Technologies Private Limited
02 — MISSION AND VISION

What we are for.

MISSION

To make technical work reach Rajasthan’s young people where they already live — by putting them on real software from the first week, giving them the tools and the guidance to do it, and asking them for nothing in return.

VISION

That in ten years, a young person in a Rajasthan district town has no reason to leave in order to do world-class technical work — because the work is being done here, by people like them, for companies anywhere in the world.

Between those two statements sits a practical question: who pays for a person to become good enough to be employed? At present the answer is the family. VRAJ answers it differently. The company carries the cost, and the work carries the company. VRAJHNA pays for tools, infrastructure and senior time. The member brings effort. What the work earns is shared. Nobody is asked for a rupee.

The reason you could not learn this was never ability. It was access to the tools and to somebody who would check your work.

Five commitments.

Stated plainly so that the district administration, and anyone who joins, can hold us to them.

I
No fee, ever

Not upfront, not deferred, and not a share of a future salary elsewhere.

II
A share of what the work earns

We do not yet have the capital to promise a fixed salary. We commit to a defined share from the first rupee it earns.

III
No degree filter

Diploma, degree, self-taught, or none. Selection is on a real task, not a certificate.

IV
Everything they need, paid for by us

AI tools, API credits, hosting, licences and senior review — carried by VRAJHNA, not the member.

V
They leave stronger than they came

A public record of work actually delivered, with their name on it.

On the second commitment, plainly: a programme that cannot pay a wage should not claim to. We would rather state the position honestly than promise a stipend in September and explain its absence in December.
03 — THE IDEA

VRAJ is a working studio that trains by employing.

Not a course with a job at the end. A job, with the learning inside it.

VRAJ takes on real software work — for our own companies, for local businesses, and for clients outside Rajasthan — and does that work with people who are learning to do it. A small senior team designs and reviews; the studio delivers. Everyone is paid.

What exists today

Coding schools that charge a fee, or defer it against future salary. Government programmes that give a certificate. Both leave the learner waiting, and one leaves them in debt.

What VRAJ does differently

No fee at any stage. We carry the cost of the tools and the supervision, and the member carries a share of what the work earns.

Every other model asks the learner to pay, now or later. This one does not.

Selection is the part most programmes get wrong. A written test measures who had a better school. A real task measures who can do the work.

WHO THIS IS FOR
  • Engineering and diploma holders across Rajasthan who finished their course and never found technical work.
  • Students in the final year of an ITI or polytechnic, before the migration decision is made for them.
  • Young women whose families would support technical work locally but not relocation to another city.

How a person moves through VRAJ.

Six steps, from an application to an income. No stage costs the applicant anything.

01
Apply

Open to anyone in Rajasthan. No fee, no degree, no entrance exam.

02
A real task, not an exam

Candidates are given something a client actually needs done.

03
Real work from week one

Live production work under supervision, on products that ship — with every tool paid for by us.

04
Machine review, then human review

Every submission is reviewed by AI before a senior sees it — checked, corrected, explained, graded.

05
A verified record of work

Not a certificate. A public log of what was actually shipped.

06
A role, or a portfolio

Stay on the team, or leave with proof of delivered work that gets hired anywhere.

The measure of step six: a person should be more employable on the day they leave VRAJ than on the day they arrived — whether or not they stay with us.
04 — WHY THIS IS POSSIBLE NOW

The economics of teaching changed in the last two years.

Learning by doing has always been the best way to train an engineer, and the most expensive. That is why it happens in Bangalore and not in Rajasthan.

Training on live work needs a senior watching every junior — reading code, catching the mistake, explaining the fix. One senior could carry two or three juniors. At that ratio the arithmetic only works where senior salaries are supported by large clients, which means the metros.

WHAT CHANGED

Every piece of work submitted inside VRAJ receives a machine first-pass before a human sees it: reviewed against the brief, checked for correctness, corrected, explained back, and graded. The senior engineer then reviews the review — not the raw work.

That single change takes the supervision ratio from roughly one to three up to one to fifteen, and the feedback loop from a day down to minutes.

This is the technical claim of the venture:
AI does not replace the junior. It makes the junior affordable to teach.

This is also why the venture is registered under AI and Emerging Technologies rather than education services. The product is the supervision system; the outcome is employment.

05 — WHAT GETS BUILT

The work is Rajasthan’s own, to begin with.

A studio only trains people if it has real work. VRAJ has three sources of it, and each one solves a problem that exists inside Rajasthan.

ONE — SOFTWARE FOR RAJASTHAN’S INDUSTRY

Bhiwadi sits inside one of Rajasthan’s largest industrial belts. Smaller units still run on paper registers, WhatsApp and memory. They need something simple, in Hindi, on a phone.

TWO — LOCAL BUSINESSES THAT CANNOT BE FOUND

Nearly half of all searches are now answered without a click, and small businesses are absent from those answers. Audits, corrected profiles and light storefronts are well-defined, high-volume work a studio can train on.

THREE — OUR OWN PRODUCTS

VRAJHNA Fashions and WebStudio Bhiwadi generate continuous work at a standard we control. Every new person begins by reading code that already ships.

Rajasthan’s young people, building Rajasthan’s software, for Rajasthan’s own businesses — and then for anyone.
ALREADY AT WORK ON RAJASTHAN’S OWN PROBLEM STATEMENTS

We have not waited to be asked. VRAJHNA has entered three challenges issued by the Government of Rajasthan.

01Vernacular AI Assistant for Government Scheme Discovery
Citizens cannot claim what they cannot find. Most scheme info exists only in English.
02Revamp of the Department of Agriculture Web Portal
A portal used by farmers should be built for a farmer with a phone and a weak signal.
03Safe and Flexible Job Discovery Platform
Young people in Rajasthan cannot find work that is both real and safe to take.
These are not hypothetical projects for a training programme. They are the state’s own problems, and they are what we intend our members to build.
06 — WHY US

We are not proposing that this can be done from Bhiwadi.
We have already done it.

VRAJHNA Technologies Private Limited is a DPIIT-recognised company operating from Bhiwadi, Rajasthan. It was founded and is run by a 23-year-old from this state. Its work is live and can be inspected at any time.

VRAJHNA Fashions

A full e-commerce house — brand, photography, catalogue and storefront — designed and built in-house in Bhiwadi to international standard.

WebStudio Bhiwadi

The services arm. Websites, Google visibility and digital systems for local businesses, with every price published openly.

YourDoclyn

Documentation and operational services — a source of structured, teachable work.

The group

VRAJHNA Group, operating across technology, fashion and digital services from a single office.

The relevance is simple. A studio that trains people on real work must first be able to win and deliver real work.

Verifiable: vrajhna.com · webstudiobhiwadi.com · CIN and DPIIT on record.

Built with nothing, so far.

VRAJHNA has taken no outside capital, no loan and no grant. Everything was paid for out of its own work.

WHAT VRAJHNA CARRIES
ToolsAI and API credits, hosting, domains, software for every member.
SupervisionSenior review of every piece of work, and the machine review layer.
WorkLive products to build on, so nobody practises on exercises.
CreditPublic attribution on shipped work.
WHAT THE MEMBER RECEIVES
FeeNone, at any stage.
ShareA defined share of revenue from any client work they contribute to.
StipendIntroduced for the founding cohort the moment prize money or revenue makes it possible.
We will not use an income-share agreement. The established alternative is to train first and collect a share of a future salary. It still sends a young person home carrying an obligation.

Exactly what each rupee does.

We are not asking for money to test whether this works. We are asking for money to remove the three things currently slowing it down.

₹10,000
Block
AI and API credits for the founding cohort.

Every member needs paid access to the tools the work is done with.

₹50,000
District
The first stipends.

Enough to support ten members through their initial weeks.

₹5,00,000
State
A working office in Rajasthan, and a year of stipends.

Sited wherever it serves the most people — not necessarily a city.

THE HONEST POSITION

Today VRAJ can take a small number of people, because supervision and tool costs are carried personally. Support decides whether the first cohort is three people or thirty.

We have built four products with no capital.
Give us the credits and a room, and we will build the people too.
WHAT THE STATE CAN GIVE THAT MONEY CANNOT
SpaceIncubation space under iStart Nest.
AllowanceSustenance allowance for registered startups.
WorkAccess to state procurement and departmental problem statements.
ReachReferral through district administration, ITIs, polytechnics.
08 — RAJASTHAN TO THE WORLD

The work should travel. The people should not have to.

For thirty years talent has moved to where work is. That arrangement is now optional.

Software is delivered over a wire. A team in Bhiwadi can build for a company in Jaipur, Bangalore, London or Dubai without leaving the state.

A young person in Rajasthan should be able to build for the world without leaving the house their family built.
09 — THE FIRST YEAR

What we will do, and by when.

Oct 2026 Batch 01 opens — 10 people10
Dec 2026 First cohort shipping — 10 building10
Mar 2027 Batch 02 — 25 people25
Jun 2027 50 people + permanent space50
Sep 2027 Year one target — 100 people100
HOW WE SHOULD BE MEASURED

Not by people enrolled, but by the number of people in Rajasthan earning an income from technical work who were not before — and whether they are still earning it a year later.

The talent is already here. The work is not. That is a solvable problem.

VRAJ exists to break that circle in Rajasthan: to be the place that gives a person their first real technical work, supervises it properly, and lets the record speak for them.

We are not asking for permission to try. We have started.

From Bhiwadi, for Rajasthan.
And from Rajasthan, for anyone.
Yuvraj Sharma — Founder & Managing Director
VRAJHNA Technologies Private Limited · DPIIT recognised
5/544, U.I.T. Bhiwadi, Rajasthan 301019, India
hello@vrajhna.com · +91 99500 98124 · vrajhna.com
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