Aditi Avasthi – Embibe

Aditi Avasthi is the founder and CEO of Embibe, an educational technology company, based in Bangalore. 

Awards: Fortune’s 40 Under 40, in 2015; BBC 100 Women for addressing illiteracy in 2017;  Vogue Woman of the Year, under the category Young achiever, in 2018; CEO of the Year, Edtechreview, February 2018; Accenture Vahini Innovator of the Year, Economic Times Prime Women Leadership Awards, March 2019

Aditi Balbir – V Resorts

Aditi Balbir is the Founder & CEO of V Resorts – an organization that provides holiday experiences that showcase the Real India.   V Resorts quickly became a famed startup in India and was awarded the Best Upcoming Resort Chain award by Lonely Planet in 2016. In total, the startup raised US$17 million in seed funding. 

Awards: ‘Dell Foundation’s 200 most powerful women entrepreneurs in the world’ in 2016.; Young Women Business award by CNBC TV 18 in 2018; WEF 17 Award of “Exceptional Women of Excellence 2017 ; Fortune 100 Most Powerful Women Asia 2017

Aditi Gupta – Menstrupedia

Aditi Gupta is an Indian author and co-founder of Menstrupedia Comic. She and her husband, both National Institute of Design Alumni, co-founded Menstrupedia Comic in 2012. In 2014, she was named in the Forbes India 30 Under 30 2014 list.

Akanksha Anshu – Refundme.in

Akanksha is an engineering graduate and in 2016 founded refundme.in – India’s first-ever flight compensation company that makes people aware about their air passenger rights, fight for their rights and help them get the compensation by airlines company.

Anisha Singh – mydala.com

Anisha Singh is an Indian digital entrepreneur & founder of mydala.com, based in Delhi. Its India’s largest local services marketing platform, present in 209 Indian cities and with 28 million registered users.

Awards: Top 7 women CEOs located outside the US by Crunchbase in 2018;  The Most Enterprising Brands & Leaders of Asia Award in 2018; Women in Asia – 50 Most Influential 2018. 

Ankita Gaba – Social Samosa

Ankita Gaba is an Indian businesswoman, internet entrepreneur, and co-founder of Social Samosa. This is an Indian Social Media Knowledge Storehouse that tends to provide hands-on experienced and professional services running in various social media projects and campaigns by virtue.

Ankita Vashistha – Saha Fund

Ankita is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of India’s (and Asia’s) first venture capital fund that invests in and promotes women’s entrepreneurship, along with technology and innovation.  The intention behind this specialized fund is to promote and scale-up successful businesses that have women leaders, or women employees, or women consumers as the focus; across healthcare, brands, Artificial Intelligence (AI), financial services, analytics, and cybersecurity.  

Ashwini Asokan – Mad Street Den (MAD)

Ashwini Asokan is the founder and CEO of Mad Street Den, an Artificial Intelligence company, powering the Retail industry with its Image recognition platform, Vue.ai. Vue.ai works with marquee retailers, brands, and marketplaces across the globe, transforming the fashion industry’s operations through intelligent automation.

Awards: Ashwini was featured on Fortune’s 40 under 40 lists and has also been featured in over 100 publications including Forbes, TechCrunch, Nikkei, and Vogue.

Basudha Shrivastav: ExpressEarth Digital Services

Basudha Shrivastav co-founded Expres Earth Digital services, a travel agency that takes care of all your travel needs, in 2015. H Express Earth takes care of all your travel needs, from hotels, cars, flights, insurance and more for both B2B and B2C clients.

Chitra Gurnani Daga – Thrillophilia.com

Chitra Gurnani is the co-founder of adventure tours and travel company, named Thrillophilia Tours Pvt. Ltd. Thrillophilia is an Indian adventure travel company that curates local experiences for unique and offbeat travel stories & one of the largest online platforms for travel experiences.

Chitra Ravi – Chrysalis

Chitra Ravi is the Founder and CEO of  Chrysalis. Chrysalis is an educational technology company, based in chennai.

Debadutta Upadhyaya – Timesaverz

Debadutta is CEO and Co-Founder of Timesaverz.com. Launched in April 2012 and based out of Mumbai, Timesaverz is an Indian on-demand home services marketplace & delivers curated and verified home service providers to one’s doorstep and the range of services cover cleaning tasks to appliances repair, handymen jobs to pest control management as well as at home salon services. 

Divya Gokulnath: BYJU’S

Divya co-founded Byju’s an educational platform to help students learn better. BYJU’s is the world’s most valuable ed-tech startup. It offers learning through an app and website for competitive exams like JEE, CAT, NEET and IAS and for students in classes 1-12.

Falguni Nayar – Nykaa

Falguni Nayar, the founder of Nykaa, one of India’s biggest online fashion and lifestyle portals. It’s a Lifestyle retailer of beauty, wellness, and fashion products that was founded by Falguni Nayar in 2012. It retails over 2,000 brands and 200,000 products across its platforms.

Awards: The Most Powerful Women in Business 2017 Business Today; Woman Ahead (2017) Economic Times Startup Awards 2017

Farah Nathani Menzies – The Mumum Co.

After facing difficulty finding nutritious snacks for her kids in India, Farah co-founded The Mumum Co. along with Shreya Lamb. The company gained popularity and was even acknowledged as a Coca-Cola Golden Spoon Most Admired Start-Up in 2020. Farah obtained a bachelor’s degree in International Studies and Business from a U.S. university in 2001 and later worked as a business consultant at Bain & Company. She later obtained an MBA from Harvard Business School and continued working as a business advisor before establishing her own startup in 2016.

Gazal Kalra – Rivigo

Gazal Kalra cofounded Rivigo in 2014 as a relay trucking model that ensures higher truck utilization by changing drivers, just as how crews change onboard an aircraft. Valued at over $950 million, it counts Warburg Pincus and SAIF Partners as its investors. 

Garima Satija – PoshVine

Garima Satija is a young entrepreneur who is the founder of PoshVine. Before starting PoshVine, Garima worked with Naukri.com and Ozone Media.PoshVine helps users discover memorable experiences and amazing things to do with their loved ones. 

Gurleen Kaur – Hareepatti

Gurleen Kaur Tikku is the founder of Hareepatti a financial advisory company. It helps steer the wealth in directions that are advised based on lifestyle, requirements, and future plans. She is a graduate of the College of Business Studies, Delhi, and has also done her MBA from IMT, Ghaziabad.

Harpreet Kaur – Love 4

Harpreet Kaur is the Co-founder of Love 4 Apple her third venture. Harpreet is also the Chief Operator of System3, a successful IT Services and Product Supplier in India. Love4Apple sells accessories for Apple products, including covers designed by top artists as well as platforms for customers to create their own personalized items. 

Hemalatha Annamalai – Ampere Electric

Hemalatha founded Ampere Electric, a company that manufactures electric cycles, scooters, and three-wheelers and, in 2018, was valued at US$16.28 million.

Jaya Jha – InstaScribe and Pothi

Jaya is the author and founder of Pothi.com. Pothi.com is a revolutionary concept that aims at bringing out closet writers and turn them into successful authors. It also puts the book for selling on their website and only takes a share of book sales over 2,000 authors have reached readers via Pothi’s Print on Demand platform.

Kanika Tekriwal – JetSetGo

Kanika Tekriwal is the Founder of JetSetGo, an interactive technology-driven platform enabling users to search and charter aircraft and helicopters across India. JetSetGo has almost 80% of India’s private jet fleet on board. This entrepreneur fought cancer and is a relentless pursuer of hope and positivity.

Khushboo Jain – ImpactGuru.com

In 2014, Khushboo Jain and her husband Piyush Jain established ImpactGuru, a crowdfunding platform that provides assistance to patients who are unable to afford their medical bills. To date, the company has helped more than 25,000 patients obtain the necessary funds for their medical treatment. Khushboo Jain obtained her MBA in Marketing from the Welingkar Institute of Management in 2010 and has since worked with prominent brands such as Jimmy Choo and Hackett.

Mansi Gupta – Tjori

Mansi Gupta is the founder of Online Store Tjori. She along with her husband Ankit Wadhwa in 2013 started Tijori an online store for selling Indian handcrafted products to a primarily American market. Now it retails a diverse portfolio that includes apparel, wellness, footwear, and jewelry products for both the domestic and global market.

Manisha Raisinghani – LogiNext

Manisha Raisinghani – is the Co-founder and CTO of LogiNext. LogiNext is one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies catering to logistics and workforce optimization. The company has won over different global markets with superior products that work around patented self-learning algorithms.

Meena Bindra – Biba Ethnic Wear

Meena Bindra is the Founder of Biba Apparels. Biba Apparels is an Indian fashion brand for women and girls founded by Meena Bindra in 1988 from her home in New Delhi, India. It has more than 150 brand outlets and 225 multi-brand outlets. Biba recorded sales of INR 600 crore in 2014-15.

Megha Malik – DesignerPeople

Megha Malik founded  Designer People in the year 2003. DesignerPeople is a professional creative branding agency in Delhi NCR, It specializes in branding, packaging, visual communication for print and digital marketing.

Malika Sadani – The Moms Co.

Malika Sadani is the Founder of The Moms Co. started in 2012.  The Moms Co offers a wide range of products including skincare products for newborns and moms. 

Neha Behani – Moojic

Neha Behani is the Co-Founder of Moojic which is an in-store radio service for local stores, which allows customers to interact with the playlists at the locations that have signed up with. Moojic has been managing the in-store radio experience for customers in retail, hospitality, entertainment, and fitness for more than half a decade now.

Pranshu Patni – Hello English

Pranshu is a Co-Founder of CultureAlley, which has developed Hello English, an interactive, mobile-based application that allows speakers of 16 different vernacular languages to learn English right on their phones. The platform won awards such as India’s Best Mobile App and Google’s Best of 2016 Apps, while Pranshu was awarded a Forbes 30 Under 30 title. 

Radhika Aggarwal – Shopcules

Radhika Ghai Aggarwal is an Internet entrepreneur and India’s first woman to enter the Unicorn Club. She is the co-founder of the online marketplace ShopClues established in 2011 in silicon valley. Currently, she serves as the Chief Business Officer of the company.

Rati Batra – YourHR

Rati Batra is the Founder of YourHR based in New Delhi. YourHR serves end to end strategic human resource consulting and talent management services for startup ventures and small and medium enterprises. 

Roshni Nadar Malhotra, Chairperson of HCLTech

HCLTech is one of India’s largest IT and consulting services firms, and today is worth US$12 billion. When Roshni took over the chairperson role from her father in 2020, she became the first woman entrepreneur to lead a listed IT company in India.

Ruchi Garg – VenueLook

Ruchi Gara is the Founder of VeneueLook. VenueLook is the Noida-based O2O platform for venue aggregation, recommendation, and booking. It provides end-to-end event planning services right from venue booking to organizing an event with few clicks.

Sairee Chahal – SHEROES

Sairee Chahal founded SHEROES in the year 2013. SHEROES is a platform to build a community for women by offering support, resources, opportunities, and interactions via the portal named Sheroes.com and the application- SHEROES

Shradha Sharma – YourStory

Shradha Sharma is the founder and CEO of YourStory. It’s a digital media platform for startups and entrepreneurs & described as “India’s biggest and definitive platform for start-ups and entrepreneurs-related stories, news, resources, and research reports.

Shreya Lamba – The Mumum Co.

Shreya and Farah co-founded “The Mumum Co.”, a company that produces healthy snacks for children. The company gained popularity and was even acknowledged as a Coca-Cola Golden Spoon Most Admired Start-Up in 2020.   With The Mumum Co., Shreya helped raise multiple investment rounds and, since then, has also launched The Mommy Network, India’s largest curated parenting community, which helps give new mothers in India a judgment-free network to ask questions and share advice with other mothers. 

Shubhra Chadda – Chumbak

Shubhra Chadda is Co-Founder of Chumbak. Chumbak is a Lifestyle company that deals in designed and crafted products, including apparel and footwear, bags and wallets, souvenirs, key chains, and jewelry. Its range includes phone covers and a unique ‘whistle charm’, a funky bracelet.

Sneha Choudhry, Co-Founder of Zolo

Sneha launched ZoloStays (now Zolo) in 2015, a co-living and home rental booking platform. The company offers an alternative to often unaffordable long-term apartment rentals and helps foster local communities by enabling guests and residents to take part in local events. In 2019, the company secured US$30 million in Series B funding, increasing Zolo’s net worth to over US$100 million. Today, the platform is live in over ten cities across India and serves over 50,000 customers.

Sugandha Agarwal – Docttocare

Sugandha Agarwal is the founder of Dottocare.  The Bangalore-based online healthcare portal lets users from non-metro cities access quality healthcare and book an appointment with and hospitals located in metro cities. The startup also arranges for transportation of the patient to the clinic if required, thus making good quality health care services more accessible.

Supriya Paul – Founder, Josh Talks

Supriya  Paul cofounded Josh Talks in 2015. It’s a media platform headquartered in Gurugram, Haryana which hosts content in 9 languages. The speakers are social activists, business leaders, sportspeople, actors, and achievers from different fields.

Suchi Mukherjee – LimeRoad

Suchi Mukherjee is the Founder and CEO of the online shopping portal Limeroad.com, which was founded in 2012. She was among the 15 women voted for ‘Rising Talent – Global Leaders Under 40’ at the World Women’s Forum in Paris in 2010, for her contributions in scaling businesses encompassing consumer technology.

Upasana Taku – Mobikwik

Upasana Taku Co founded MobiKwik in 2009. Its a Mobile wallet facility company & operating in three segments including consumer payments, fintech, and payment gateway.

Vani Kola – Kalaari Capital

Vani Kola is an Indian venture capitalist. She is the founder and managing director of Kalaari Capital, an Indian early-stage venture capital firm. She was listed as one of the most powerful women in Indian business by Fortune India in 2014.