Meet women entrepreneurs breaking ground with their small businesses by using the power of technology and the internet. From social impact to ecommerce, whether as solopreneurs or scaled startups, these women are working towards making their businesses strong.
Solopreneur Ketki Agarwal, with her venture LDExplained, is helping parents of children with learning disabilities by arming them with all the information needed to raise and nurture them
Urmila Asher was 77 when she started her food business Gujju Ben Ka Nashta along with her grandson Harsh to help her family financially and share her love for food with everyone.
“I have to constantly make decisions, apply different perspectives, analyse and evaluate current data to find the best and most efficient solution to problems we keep facing” – Jagjyot Kaur
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Rakshita Mehta, founder of the eggless baking academy Cooks and Craft, started her entrepreneurship journey when she was still attending college. Her academy in Indore is not only about baking cakes, pies or even cookies. It is also a medium to financially empower those women who never had opportunities to skill themselves. She is passionate about creating women entrepreneurs from small towns.
Soumyaa Rajesh Karia started her venture Dessertelier in June 2021 to fulfil her dual passion of running her own business and baking. The Ahmedabad-based entrepreneur sells eggless cakes, cupcakes & cookies venture through her business.
There is a lot said and heard about women supporting each other, but not enough demonstrated. – Navixha Bagga
Shilpa Krishnegowda K’s story of becoming a homepreneur post-marriage while fulfilling her duties as a mother is a shining example of how digital is an enabler for women.
Narayanee Sai’s story of turning her passion into a profitable business using the power of digital reiterates the fact that the internet is a goldmine of opportunities for those who are determined to succeed.
Delhi-based Anam Parveen is a chocolatier selling handcrafted customised chocolates. However, when her business started stagnating, she looked online for solutions and found new ways of expanding her clientele. Here’s her story.
Richa Lalwani’s life turned around when she rediscovered herself as a business owner. The Internet, she says, helped her fulfil her childhood dream of being a businesswoman earning her own money even though she once gave up on that dream after marriage and a kid.
Vijayalakshmi’s desire to enhance the family income and build an identity for herself motivated her to become a homepreneur. She now juggles her duties as a mother and an entrepreneur with utmost élan.
Digital enabled Suguna to realise her dream of carving an identity for herself. She is now an entrepreneur who resells clothes from her Puducherry home online and makes a decent living. Here’s her story.
Aswathy, a resident of Palakkad in Kerala, always wanted to be financially independent and make her own choices in life. She kept looking for opportunities which would help her run her own business and also let her explore her creativity.
Sandhya Hegde wanted to change her life and digital brought her the answer. After marriage and motherhood, Sandhya had more demands on her time and her career took a back seat. But wanting to be self-reliant never changed. self-reliance led Sandhya to start her online business in kids’ products. Stepping outside of her comfort zone was not easy but Hegde wanted to prove to herself that she could build something new. Here’s her journey of overcoming challenges and upskilling with digital tools.
Delhi-based Harsh Bala’s manufacturing business of small electrical products suffered huge losses during the pandemic. Harsh Bala reinvented her career as a tutor with the help of digital tools on the internet.
Solopreneur Rajni’s ambition for business growth motivated her to learn to use digital tools and adapted her struggling offline business by moving it online. The 20% hike in her earnings was her reward and this is how she made it happen.
Exxat, founded in 2013 by Aarti Vaishnav, focuses on providing all in one education management software that streamlines handling data, documents, and relationships with students and clinical sites.
SheThePeople founder Shaili Chopra addressed at Digital Women Awards 2022 with a note of gratitude and shared the current standing and future of the platform.
WinPE, launched by Nupur Garg, also works closely with women who are investors and entrepreneurs; and those who aspire to be, by creating a space that supports their professional success.
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