Pran Kurup (3 October 1966 – 3 September 2016) was an Indian entrepreneur and author.

Personal life

Pran Kurup was born in Chennai to K. Madhava Kurup and Sarojini, who hailed from Kannur. He was the nephew of

K. P. P. Nambiar Kunnath Puthiyaveettil Padmanabhan Nambiar DIC (Lond), FIEE (Lond), CEngg (Lond.), more popularly known as K.P.P. Nambiar (15 April 1929 – 30 June 2015), was an Indian industrialist and technocrat, known for his work in the field of industrial ...

. He completed his graduation in

Electrical Engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

from

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur) is a public institute of technology established by the Government of India in Kharagpur, West Bengal, India. Established in 1951, the institute is the first of the IITs to be established ...

and post-graduation in Robotics from Miami University.

Entrepreneur and author

Pran Kurup co-founded Vitalect with Taher Abbasi and Ricky Bedi, an e-learning company based in California in 1997. The company was originally called ByteK Designs Inc. and renamed to Vitalect in 1999. He also served as the president of the Silicon Valley Indian Professionals Association (SIPA). Kurup authored three books. The first two books were on technical topics. He co-authored
Logic Synthesis Using Synopsys
' with Taher Abbasi. The second book

' was co-authored with Taher Abbasi and Ricky Bedi. In 2016, he released his third book on his IIT batchmate and friend Arvind Kejriwal. Titled
Arvind Kejriwal & the Aam Aadmi Party: An Inside Look
', the book contained a political analysis of the rise of Kejriwal and AAP and a comparison of the growth with that of start-up companies. The book was released by Kejriwal himself in New Delhi. He was also a columnist on the Economic Times blogs.

Death

Pran Kurup died on 3 September 2016 in Thiruvananthapuram, due to heart failure and was cremated on 5 September 2016. He is survived by his wife, a daughter and a son.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kurup, Pran 1966 births 2016 deaths English-language writers from India IIT Kharagpur alumni Writers from Chennai People from Kannur