On A Mission to End Blindness

Tej Kohli improves human life by using technology to solve health problems. Intending to eliminate blindness across the globe, he has helped many people to regain their sight. Tej Kohli has given a lot of people the opportunity to live a better life.

Tej Kohli: Developing Solutions to Human Problems

Indeed, the world will be a better place if everyone contributes to improving human life. Tej Kohli is one of the few individuals who are committed to helping others. The investor is changing people’s lives by developing technological and scientific solutions to their problems.

Who is Tej Kohli?

Tej Kohli is a technologist, investor, and entrepreneur. He is interested in deep tech ventures focusing on biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and robotics. He owns a range of investments in e-commerce. Tej Kohli owns the Zibel Real Estate and is the founder of Tej Kohli Foundation, a not-for-profit organization.

He is popular for his mission to eradicate corneal blindness. In 2021, Tej Kohli and Dr. Sanduk Ruit started the Tej Kohli and Ruit Foundation, which is committed to curing cataract blindness. The foundation works in remote and poor communities in India, China, Myanmar, Indonesia, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and other countries.

Entrepreneurial career

Tej Kohli studied Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. His first job at Rabacomtel, where he installs tachometers, inspired him to become an entrepreneur. While working on a project for a Toshiba company, he designed a process controller that later transformed the company. In 1981, he migrated to the United States.

He started a real estate company in his late twenties. Sadly, the company which was located in Beverly Hills closed down in 1994. Tej Kohli made his comeback in Costa Rica. The location, a hub for technology as well as high-risk online technologies, allowed him to start his companies.

With the dot com boom, Tej Kohli figured out that high-risk technologies need protection from fraud. He developed fraud protection software for high-risk industries. His sophisticated payment gateways were widely used in the high-risk technology sector. The fraud protection technologies were profitable.

Later on, he sold his companies. Tej Kohli invested the proceeds from the sale in technology businesses and the Zibel Real Estate portfolio. He also invested in Esports. Currently, the entrepreneur and investor lives in England

Zibel Real Estate

Tej Kohli started his real estate in East Asia after selling his companies in 2006. He used his liquidity to buy real estate. According to him, ‘real estate is a passive store of wealth.’ Tej Kohli’s real estate holdings extend to Abu Dhabi and Europe. The income from Zibel Real Estate funds the activities of the Kohli Foundation.

Tej Kohli Foundation

Through its numerous projects, this not-for-profit organization continues to solve human problems. The foundation funds innovations and scientific research for the development of new solutions. As part of its mission to improve lives, it also funds community programs. The organization also rebuilds communities.

Tej Kohli Foundation helps alleviate hunger. It has provided food sources to many families. The Funda Kohli project feeds children daily in Costa Rica. And its intervention to make life better didn’t stop there. It started a new project in the United Kingdom to deal with hunger amongst children during holidays.

The foundation has restored sight to thousands of poor blind people. It funds corneal transplant surgeries for many patients. Through its FutureBionics program, Tej Kohli Foundation provides bionic arms to physically challenged teenagers.

Tej Kohli and Ruit Foundation

It is a not-for-profit organization that conducts cataract outreach surgeries in the poorest communities of the world. While Dr. Sanduk Ruit performs low-cost cataract surgeries on a large scale, Tej Kohli funds the operations. The foundation aims at screening 2,000,000 patients for cataract blindness and curing at least 300,000 by 2026.

During its outreach at Lumbini in Nepal, the foundation cured 380 patients of cataract blindness.

Tej Kohli and Ruit Foundation plan to train local technicians and establish eye hospitals in territories where it held cataract outreach surgeries. The four-day mission took place in April 2021.

Tej Kohli’s latest investment is in Esports. He invested heavily and became Europe’s biggest individual investor in 2018. His investment philosophy to invest early in business with future growth trends helped him to receive massive returns on his investments. Tej Kohli is using his wealth to rebuild lives and communities.