Numerous India-born entrepreneurs who are now residing in Seattle have come a long way in earning success and wealth. Among these is Intelius chief executive officer Naveen Jain, following his graduation from IIT and Jamshedpur’s Xavier School, migrated to the United States via a business exchange program to explore the country’s technology market. His first job was at New Jersey’s Burroughs Corporation, working there for a year, and he later moved to Washington to operate under Bill Gates’ software company Microsoft Corporation in 1989. Primarily, he was its group manager and eventually worked his way to being its senior executive. Confident that he could make it on his own, he formed InfoSpace Inc, an online business that provides real-world content for properties like America Online (AOL), Go2Net Inc, ABC LocalNet, Lycos, Microsoft, Disney and many others.

After founding InfoSpace, Naveen Jain set out to establish another company called Intellius Incorporated, an infocommerce business that focuses on predictive intelligence, in January of 2003.

The Intelius president stated that being a product of IIT has played a vital role in his current success. “A lot of us who come here obviously tend to be in the top 1% of the country because of having been filtered through IIT.”