Founder & CEO

Ajit Kumar

Ajit Kumar is the founder and CEO of UpcharMitra, a Patna-based healthtech company building LocalPill to make local medicine access easier. He started working on the company after leaving his B.Tech programme at Saharsa College of Engineering during his second semester and later continued his education through IGNOU while working full-time on UpcharMitra. His work is focused on building LocalPill and the local pharmacy network behind it.

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At 19, Ajit Kumar Left Engineering to Build LocalPill Around One Simple Question: Where Is My Medicine?

A medicine can be sitting in a nearby pharmacy and still feel out of reach when nobody knows where to find it. In Patna, Ajit Kumar is building LocalPill around that everyday problem, starting with neighbourhood pharmacies.

8 Sept 2026 · 8 min