Herman Narula
Herman Narula | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 1988 (age 33) Delhi, India |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School |
| Alma mater | Girton College, Cambridge University |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Known for | co-founder and CEO of Improbable Worlds Limited |
| Title | CEO, Improbable |
| Parent(s) | Harpinder Singh Narula Surina Narula |
Herman Narula (born April 1988) is a British Indian businessman and the co-founder and CEO of Improbable Worlds Limited, a British multinational technology company founded in 2012. It makes distributed simulation software for video games and corporate use.
Early life[]
Narula was born in April 1988,[1] in Delhi, India.[2][3] He is the son of Harpinder Singh Narula, who runs DSC Ltd, the family construction business,[2] and Surina Narula, a prominent philanthropist devoted to children's rights and other social and environmental causes.[4] He has two older brothers, Anhad and Manhad, who work for DSC.[5]
He was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, Elstree, and Girton College, Cambridge, where he studied computer science.[2][5]
Career[]
In 2012, Narula and friends from Cambridge set up Improbable, which at the end of 2013 was still being run from his parents' house, Hyver Hall, in Hertfordshire.[6]
In May 2017, following a further $502 million of investment, the company is estimated to be worth $1 billion.[3]
According to The Telegraph Tech 100 in 2020, Narula is worth an estimated £450 million.[7]
References[]
- ^ "Herman NARULA - Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House)". Beta.companieshouse.gov.uk. 11 July 2012. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
- ^ a b c "Meet Improbable, The Startup Building The World's Most Powerful Simulations". Forbes.com. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
- ^ a b Susannah Butter (30 May 2017). "Meet the man who's about to turn London into a virtual reality playground | London Evening Standard". Standard.co.uk. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
- ^ "The 'Otherness' Of Living". Verve Magazine. 18 August 2008. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
- ^ a b Amit Roy. "Eye on England: Herman Narula and his Improbable story, Dear Dad, Abir's sequel and Tittle tattle". telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
- ^ Solon, Olivia (29 May 2014). "The Improbable dream to radically transform online gaming | WIRED UK". Wired.co.uk. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
- ^ "Telegraph Tech Hot 100: The full 2020 list revealed". The Telegraph. 28 October 2020. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
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- 1988 births
- Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge
- Living people
- People educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School
- People from Hertfordshire
- Indian emigrants to the United Kingdom
- British company founders
- Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom
- British business biography, 20th-century birth stubs