About
About Project108
A mentorship fellowship built on one core belief: exceptional people exist everywhere, but their opportunities don't.
Mission
To identify and support exceptionally talented youth from economically disadvantaged backgrounds in Telangana through meaningful mentorship, exposure, and long-term community.
Vision
A future where your starting circumstances do not determine your ceiling — where talent and character are the only metrics that matter.
Why 108?
108 is a number that carries deep significance across Indian philosophy, mathematics, and culture. It appears in astronomy — the distance between the Earth and the Sun is approximately 108 times the Sun's diameter. It appears in sacred traditions across multiple disciplines.
For Project108, the number represents both a target and a philosophy: identify 108 extraordinary young people and change the trajectory of their lives. Not hundreds of thousands. Not a mass program. Just 108 people — done with full commitment and complete integrity.
We start with 10. The goal is 108. The principle never changes.
Why we start small
Project108 is not trying to scale quickly. The Year 1 pilot has 10 fellows and 10 mentors — deliberately small. This is because mentorship only works when it's real. You cannot mentor 1000 people at once. You can mentor 10 people well.
Year 1 is about learning, proving the model, and building the foundation for future cohorts. Every decision in Year 1 is about quality over scale.
A note from the founders
“We are not outside observers of this problem. We lived it.
Growing up in Telangana, the path to building something meaningful was never straight. There were financial pressures, no obvious roadmap, and very few people who could show us what was possible. We had to figure out most of it alone — through difficulty, through failure, and through sheer stubbornness.
Eventually, we found our way to building Webpipl. But we know how differently things could have gone with even one person in our corner — someone who had been through it, who could see what we were capable of, and who was willing to invest their time in us.
That is what Project108 is. Not charity. Not a program. A deliberate effort to be that person for someone else — and to build a community of people willing to do the same.
If you have the talent and the drive, you should not have to figure it out alone. That is the only thing we are trying to fix.”
Jalagam Kalyan Chakravarthy
Co-Founder, Project108
Raj Thammala
Co-Founder, Project108 · CEO, Webpipl Solutions
Future roadmap
Pilot
- 10 fellows
- 10 mentors
- 12-month program
- Telangana
Grow
- Expand to 30–50 fellows
- Multi-city presence
- Partner organisations
- First alumni cohort
Scale
- 108 active fellows
- Structured alumni network
- Mentor dashboard
- Progress tracking system