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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.
She founded Universal Sportsbiz to build owned brands around stars, most visibly WROGN with Virat Kohli, instead of renting their faces for ads.
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 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.
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.
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.
She left a finance career to build Embibe around personalised, data-driven learning, a thesis that attracted a majority investment from Reliance Industries.
How a former Managing Director at Kotak Mahindra Capital founded India’s most loved beauty destination, and rang the bell on Dalal Street.
She built POPxo into a large digital community for Indian women, then merged content with commerce to co-found The Good Glamm Group, a story with a celebrated rise and a harder second act.
Honasa Consumer, the parent of Mamaearth, is now listed on the BSE and NSE, and Ghazal is a household name from Shark Tank India.
