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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.
An IIT-IIM graduate and ultramarathoner, Vineeta spent more than a decade building a beauty brand designed specifically for Indian skin.
A childhood exit, years of low-paid selling jobs, and an instinct for retail merchandising came together in Rubans Accessories, her fashion-jewellery company.
Fifteen years and one stock market listing later, she is one of the few women founders to have taken an Indian fintech public.
From structuring debt in London to co-founding Kaleidofin, she has spent her career trying to make finance work for customers banks were never designed to serve.
She turned a quiet, awkward category into a category-defining online brand, now part of the Reliance Retail family.
Two decades in marketing, then a career change at 40 into India’s plastic-waste sector with no prior experience, Meha Lahiri co-founded Recity, kept it bootstrapped, and grew it to ~₹22.6 Cr in FY24 across 22+ Indian cities.
A serial entrepreneur who built and exited TutorVista, she co-founded Portea Medical to move Indian healthcare out of the hospital and into the home.
JetSetGo flies dignitaries, business leaders and sportspeople across India. Kanika and her co-founder Sudheer Perla built it from her recovery and a notebook of operator contacts.
