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A former McKinsey financial-services partner who helped build OfBusiness in 2015 and then turned its lending arm, Oxyzo, into a billion-dollar company at its very first institutional round.
In 2009, she and her husband quit IT-sector jobs and started a travel company with a few lakh rupees of their own money. It became one of India’s largest travel-experiences brands, largely without venture capital.
She co-founded SocialCops in 2013, built data systems used on large public projects, and then spun the internal tooling into Atlan, a data-collaboration company now used by global enterprises.
She co-founded LEAD in 2012 to make excellent learning ordinary in India’s affordable private schools. A decade later it became the country’s School Learning System unicorn.
She founded Universal Sportsbiz to build owned brands around stars, most visibly WROGN with Virat Kohli, instead of renting their faces for ads.
She co-founded MyDala in 2009, one of India’s early local-deals platforms, in an ecosystem with almost no women founders. She later built She Capital to invest in women-led ventures.
Co-founded with her husband Pankaj Vermani and Suman Chowdhury, Clovia built India’s D2C innerwear category from a tech-led fit engine. In 2022, Reliance Retail Ventures acquired 89% of parent Purple Panda Fashions.
A career arc that started with a newspaper for mariners and ended up running a women-only financial-services app backed by Coinbase Ventures and Atlantis.
A 2010 Delhi blog grew into a content-commerce platform with Dhruv Mathur as co-founder. In 2022, Nykaa’s parent acquired LBB’s parent Iluminar Media outright.
Co-founded in 2012 with Abhishek Goyal, Tracxn is one of the few Indian B2B SaaS companies to list on the public markets, and one of the rare woman-CEO-led tech IPOs on Indian bourses.
A sister-led, Bengaluru-headquartered D2C food brand that began at a yoga studio in 2014. In 2023, ITC committed to acquiring 100% of parent Sproutlife Foods over a phased multi-tranche deal.
She co-founded what is widely cited as India’s first all-women taxi service, then kept rebuilding the same idea, women earning a living by driving, into delivery with Hey Deedee.
