The Rise Of Women Entrepreneurs In India

The Rise Of Women Entrepreneurs In India

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Aditi Gupta, Co-founder of Menstrupedia

Menstrupedia is a complete guide about periods that is taught in more than 30 schools across India. They also have several free resources available to help break the taboo. Founding Year: 2012 Investors: The Morpheus Address: Ahmedabad

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Ashwini Asokana, Founder of Mad Street Den

MAD is an Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision company. Their mission is to build models of generalizable intelligence to make it available for use to billions of people.

Founding Year: 2013 Funding: $21.2M Investors: Global Brain Corporation, Sequoia Capital, Falcon Edge Capital, KDDI, Array Ventures Address: Chennai

 

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Falguni Nayar, Founder of Nykaa

Nykaa is a beauty and wellness e commerce, premier platform for women. They are known for authentic products and trustworthy brand names. They boast about their retail partnerships with top-notch personal care corporations like Unilever, P&G, L'Oreal, Beiersdorf, Johnson & Johnson.

Founding Year: 2008 Funding: $145M Address: Mumbai

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Vandana Luthra, Founder of VLCC

VLCC is the largest organisation in terms of scale and breadth of operations in the beauty and wellness service in India. Today VLCC has crossed borders and has a presence across over 350+ locations in 165 cities spanning 16 countries in South Asia, South East Asia, Middle East and East Africa.

Founding Year: 1989 Investors: Wellscience, VanityCube Address: Gurgaon

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Upasana Taku, Co-founder of Mobikwik

Mobikwik is a fintech startup that was founded in April 2009. It is a phone-based payment system and digital wallet. It helps bridge the digital divide between consumers and companies. Also allows payment of bills, DTH, data card and much more through their app. Founding Year: 2009 Funding: $131M Advisors, Tianying Fu, Gaurav Manglik,

Investors: NDTV Limited, Trifecta Capital

Sequoia Capital India

Address: Gurugram

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Shubhra Chadda, Co founder of Chumbak

Chumbak is a fashion-led lifestyle brand. Today, they've expanded into several products from fashion to face masks. They've grown to be known from their fun, quirky mix of trends. Their focus on Indian heritage also shows the roots and helps them stand out. They started with a seed funding on Rs 40 lakhs and have grown. Founding Year: 2009

Funding : $27M Investors: seed fund.in, Matrix Partners India, Gaja Capital, BlackSoil Address: Bangalore

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Suchi Mukherjee, Founder & CEO of Limeroad

Limeroad is an eCommerce platform for men and women's fashion. It focuses on user generated content and engagement to help their audience be completely engrossed with the product. It targets women and works on making online shopping more fun. Founding Year: 2012 Funding: $50M Investors: Tiger Global Management, Lightspeed India Partners, Matrix Partners India, Lightspeed Venture Partners

Address: Gurgaon

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Suchita Salwan, Founder & CEO of Little Black Book

Little Black Book today is an online platform to find local brands and businesses that are used by 25 million+ people. It is a discovery lead e-commerce platform for retailers. It focuses on helping its customers discover local brands. The Little Black Book includes lifestyle, food, travel and other things. Founding Year: 2012

Funding: $8.3M Investors: Alteria Capital, AET Fund, Blume Ventures, IAN Fund, Inventus Capital Address: New Delhi

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Shradha Sharma, Founder & CEO of YourStory Media

Your Story is the top media platform for entrepreneurs, startups and businesses to report about updates and promote their businesses. The platform reaches over 10 million engaged readers every month. It has also been invested in by Ratan Tata. Founding Year: 2008 Funding: $13M

Investors: 3one4 Capital, Kalaari Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, UC-RNT Fund, Ratan Tata

Address: Bangalore

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Sairee Chahal, Founder of Sheroes.in

Sheroes is a woman's only platform for offering support, resources, opportunities and interactions. Furthermore, SHEROES hosts the #SHEROESSummit, a flagship event and #theshift Series to help change the gender narrative and the organise community meets across the country. Founding Year: 2013

Funding: $2.6M Investors: HR Fund, Quintillion media, Lumis Partners, Leo Capital Holdings, Lumis Partners

Address: Delhi