Nandeet Mehta
Founder,
Pyur Solutions
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Field: Agricultural Innovation
Age
22
Nandeet Mehta is an Edison scholar, entrepreneur, venture capitalist and a UCLA class of 2016 student majoring in history and minoring in global studies. In January 2015, he founded and became CEO of Pyur Solutions, a company developing nontoxic, biodegradable, plant-based pesticides, herbicides and insecticides for agriculture. While focusing on developing sustainable solutions to control pests in agriculture, Mehta became drawn to the subject of nutrition and its relationship to performance and health. This past fall, he co-founded SNAC, a student nutrition advocacy group.