Herman 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.

Herman Narula
BornApril 1988 (age 32)
Delhi, India
NationalityBritish
EducationHaberdashers' Aske's Boys' School
Alma materGirton College, Cambridge University
OccupationEntrepreneur
Known forco-founder and CEO of Improbable Worlds Limited
Net worth£450 million (October 2020)
TitleCEO, Improbable
Parent(s)Harpinder Singh Narula
Surina Narula

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
  1. "Herman NARULA - Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House)". Beta.companieshouse.gov.uk. 11 July 2012. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
  2. "Meet Improbable, The Startup Building The World's Most Powerful Simulations". Forbes.com. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  3. 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.
  4. "The 'Otherness' Of Living". Verve Magazine. 18 August 2008. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  5. 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.
  6. Solon, Olivia (29 May 2014). "The Improbable dream to radically transform online gaming | WIRED UK". Wired.co.uk. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  7. "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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