The women entrepreneurs in India are excelling in the major sector including the healthcare, technology, agriculture etc., which are mostly believed to be male dominated sectors by the Indian society. These fempreneur (Women Entrepreneurs) also encourage the other women in the country to pursue their dream and to fight against all odds in order to achieve their goal.
On the occasion of International Women’s Day which is slated to be celebrated on March 8, to mark the achievement of women we have curated the top five women’s that are creating history and acing in their respective sectors-
Richa Jaggi,
Co-Founder & CMO,
Awshad, Delhi-based Medical Cannabis Wellness Startup
Richa Jaggi is a dynamic business leader and an award-winning marketing and strategy specialist with 10+ years of rich cross-category and cross-sectoral experience with various leading global brands, a graduate degree in Economics and a Masters in Marketing & Advertising, Richa started her career in advertising and PR, and went ahead to work for renowned agencies like Ogilvy, Publicis Groupe and Edelman, while helping some of the world’s biggest and most iconic brands like Vodafone, Lakme (Hindustan Unilever), Outbrain and many more along the way with impeccable campaigns and strategies. Richa is one of the leading marketing voices of our country today with the title of ‘Top #40under40 Marketers’ under her belt. At Awshad, Richa leads the marketing and strategy team of the brand and is responsible for all the creative campaigns, digital marketing and brand-building efforts to enable the brand to scale to new heights. She is bringing her comprehensive 360-degree experience across all major paradigms of marketing and is at the heart of Awshad driving it forward with deep insights, creativity, storytelling and data.
Sharayu S. Kulkarni,
Co-Founder, RuKart,
Maharashtra-based Agri-tech Startup
After completing her M. Tech back in 2016 from the renowned Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB), Sharayu while pursuing her masters program worked on clean energy access (Cooking) for Women at the bottom of the pyramid. She was awarded a fellowship from the Ministry of Rural Development at Govt. of India to work on clean cooking technology dissemination. During the fellowship, Sharayu worked across more than 5 Indian states for dissemination of improved Cook Stoves among the women. Post fellowship, she worked across 10 Indian states on clean cooking technology dissemination with several NGOs, Research Organization Pvt. Organizations including University of California, Berkeley, U.S.
Sharayu also looks after the finance and business development team at RuKart. She has laid the foundation of organization in key states like Gujarat, Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu.
Nidhi Pant,
Co-founder, S4S Technologies,
Mumbai-headquartered Agri-tech Startup
Nidhi is Co-Founder, Science For Society – S4S Technologies, which is a near-farm gate food processing platform converting farm losses to value-added products for the F&B Industry-saving time, cost, and energy for them. S4S is working with over 2,700 women farmers and serving over 1 million customers.
Nidhi is the winner of the Women Transforming India Awards by NITI Aayog in collaboration with the United Nations (UN). She has also been listed in Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia and Winner of the Unilever Young Entrepreneur Award 2019 by Unilever and the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. She was also named Emerging Innovator of the Year at the inaugural edition of the Economic Times Women Leadership Awards (ETPWLA).
Shalu Jha,
Co-Founder, Chief Operating Officer,
PRandit Solution, a Media-tech company
Shalu Jha is the Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer at PRandit Solution – a media-tech company. She is a young visionary and dynamic leader having 8+ years of industry experience. She has been selected as one of the women entrepreneurs in tech out of 183 women entrepreneurs for upscaling program in the first cohort of the Level Up program organized by Google for Startups, 91springboard and Unlock Impact
At PRandit, though Shalu wears multiple hats, her primary responsibility areas include looking after business operations, maintaining liaison between client and media fraternity, and business development and expansion. She is proud to have been closely associated with and aiding the reputation-building journeys of some of the marquee brands and organizations such as Tezos India, Log9 Materials, GIZ Her&Now project, CEEW and Villgro Innovations Foundation, among others.
Vineeta Singh, Co-Founder and CEO, SUGAR
Vineeta Singh
Co-Founder and CEO, SUGAR Cosmetics
Vineeta Singh has started the SUGAR Cosmetics after failing in starting her two businesses. In the year 2015, being passionate about doing her own business, she came across the idea of starting a Cosmetics company. However, at that time, only a handful of brands were dominating the cosmetic market in India and due to which they were not paying appropriate attention towards the needs of the customers. To solve this issue, Vineeta Singh targeted the high class women society – models, actresses or who came from high rich families to sell her products.
After completing her research on cosmetics, Vineeta started her own cosmetic brand ‘Sugar Cosmetics’. Earlier, Sugar Cosmetics was selling its product through the online portal but in the year 2019, the company came up with its first offline outlet in Uttar Pradesh. Currently, SUGAR Cosmetics is rapidly scaling its physical presence with over 45,000 retail touchpoints across 550 cities and a mission of reaching the doorstep of every makeup user in the country.
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