Iliyas Albaruni: 19-Year-Old Rabt Founder From Assam

Iliyas Albaruni is a 19-year-old founder from Assam, Northeast India. He is the Founder and CEO of Rabt, which builds 1:1 Organic Content Systems for founders, and the founder of NevDev, an AI and software company. Here is his story, from a failed YouTube channel in Class 7 to companies across India, Italy and Canada. The details below come from Iliyas's own feature kit and public profiles, and have not been independently audited by Day1.

Who is Iliyas Albaruni?

Iliyas Albaruni is a founder, builder and self-described systems thinker based in Assam. At 19 he runs Rabt, founded NevDev, and is a co-founder of Impatto Studio (Italy) and Be Noticed (Canada). He shares his journey on Instagram at @iliyas.albaruni.

How did Iliyas Albaruni start building?

According to his kit, it began in Class 7 with a YouTube channel that failed. In Class 8 he started Low Dunk, a shoe dropshipping page, which he says brought in around Rs 2 lakh a year. A clothing brand in Class 9 did not work either. Back to shoes in Classes 10 and 11, he reports Rs 4 lakh in sales over two years. His own summary: he learned business by doing it, not by reading about it.

Why did Iliyas Albaruni sell his dream camera?

In Class 11 he fell in love with photography and started out as a wedding photographer, later adding cinematography. By Class 12, he says, weddings paid him Rs 3 lakh a year, and he bought his dream camera, a Sony A7 IV. When money got tight, he sold it and stepped back from photography to focus on building Rabt.

Why did he drop out of engineering?

Iliyas started Rabt as a local marketing agency during his first two semesters of engineering, and it grew fast in the local market. In the third semester he dropped out. His belief, in his words from the kit: building a business would teach him more than studying one. Then, he says, everything he had built was wiped out. He rebuilt Rabt and his personal brand from scratch, this time with a bigger goal: serving founders across the world from Northeast India.

What is Rabt?

Rabt runs what it calls a 1:1 Organic Content System: a personalised system built around each founder or business, covering ideation, structure, scripting, production, editing, repurposing and distribution. The idea is that founders focus on the business while Rabt handles the content process. Per the founder's kit, Rabt has served 500+ founders and businesses, generated 30M+ organic views and created 11,000+ pieces of content. These figures are self-reported.

What else has Iliyas Albaruni built?

NevDev builds custom AI agents and software, and has recently launched a product called QRM GO, as per the kit. Impatto Studio is a social media marketing agency in Italy, and Be Noticed is a branding and marketing company in Canada. His stated next mission is to build an AI from Assam that shapes how his generation builds, creates and grows.

His approved line, from the kit: "Where you start doesn't decide how far you can build."

More founder stories on Day1: Ravi Tamta's electric flying car prototype from Almora and Rapid Organic's journey from 7 farmers to 12,000.

Iliyas Albaruni FAQs

How old is Iliyas Albaruni? He is 19, as per his official feature kit.

Where is Iliyas Albaruni from? Assam, Northeast India.

What does Rabt do? Rabt builds and runs 1:1 Organic Content Systems for founders and businesses.

Which companies is Iliyas Albaruni linked to? Rabt (Founder and CEO), NevDev (Founder), Impatto Studio in Italy and Be Noticed in Canada (co-founder).

Sources: Iliyas Albaruni's official feature kit (shared with Day1, Oct 2026); his public Instagram and LinkedIn profiles confirm the role at Rabt and the dropout story. Business figures (500+ founders, 30M+ views, 11,000+ pieces, rupee amounts) are self-reported by the founder and were not independently verified. Photo courtesy of Iliyas Albaruni.