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Founder-led media and content platforms.
7 stories in Media
A Wharton graduate stepped away for three and a half years to raise her children, then found the door back into work quietly shut. In 2015 she built JobsForHer, now HerKey. It reaches millions of women, it turns a profit, and its founder has picked a new fight: keeping AI from locking women out all over again.
After years in Mumbai’s corporate world, Sujata Goswami and her sister built YOBO Collective as an interdisciplinary arts and culture platform where artists from Assam and the wider Northeast can create, collaborate, and feel a sense of belonging.
A magazine for readers the publishing industry had never built for, treated as an audience, not a charity case.
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.
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 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.
A former television journalist and ad-sales professional left a comfortable corporate career to write founder stories on a blog. Fifteen years later, YourStory is one of the most cited startup-media brands in India.
Founder-led media and content platforms.
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