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Meet Women Leading The Artificial Intelligence Based-Startups In India

Now, we have women who aren't just operating staff positions in big technology start-ups but are creating them, from discovery to final implementation.

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Saumya Rastogi
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is bound to impact society in numerous ways but when and where this influence will be felt can't be foretold. However, one thing is certain that AI will disrupt conventional work models.

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AI is supporting in smashing norms too. Like every other discipline, women in technology also, found it difficult to make a name for themselves in an industry dominated by men. But space is evolving. Now, we have women who aren't just operating staff positions in big technology start-ups but are creating them, from discovery to final implementation.

Here are some women who are killing it in the AI industry:

Aditi Avasthi, Founder and CEO, Embibe

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Aditi Avasthi's passion for developing education in India is apparent from the point that students who have adopted Embibe's programs have gone on to accomplish exceptional results in undesirable circumstances.

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Embibe's pilot plan was with the tribal students of Rajasthan who didn't know how to work on computers before Embibe's mediation. The students were self-sufficient and also went on to answer the most competing pre-engineering and pre-medical examinations in India.

Niramai in 2017 raised seed funding of $1 million from Pi Ventures and had just begun clinical trials. Today, the team holds nine U.S. patents and one Canadian patent. The start-up is the only Indian company recorded in the 2019 group of AI 100 Start-ups in the World by global business data intelligence platform C.B. Insights.

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Embibe, a customised platform, is intended to address education and life outcomes for students. Aditi Avasthi was presented ‘Accenture Vaahini Innovator of The Year’ at Economic Times Prime Women Leadership Awards 2019.

Chandralika Hazarika, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Bigthinx

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An MBA graduate, Chandralika has formerly served at ITC and Space Matrix. The marketing expert, who has ten years of expertise, was always interested in generating simplistic but highly automatic tech commodities that could be utilised by everyone.

Today, her business Big Thinx's flagship product, the Lyflike app, lets one design an article of customised clothing by checking supplies, sizes, lengths, style, fit, mixing and matching, and viewing them on personalised, avatars in immersive simulation. A user gets to join immersive buying through real-time visual explorations and virtual reality.

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Geetha Manjunath and Nidhi Mathur, Founders of Nirmai

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Geetha Manjunath and Nidhi Mathur began Niramai, a health-tech startup that employs Artificial Intelligence (AI) to identify cancer in the early stages, using non-invasive, radiation-free, and painless methods.

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Niramai in 2017 raised seed funding of $1 million from Pi Ventures and had just begun clinical trials. Today, the team holds nine U.S. patents and one Canadian patent. The start-up is the only Indian company recorded in the 2019 group of AI 100 Start-ups in the World by global business data intelligence platform C.B. Insights.

Meghna Saraogi, Founder, MirrAR

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All because of MirrAR, customers can now try on jewellery on the digital forums of client labels which includes iPads connected at multiple locations, without really having to wear the items.

Shoppers also receive immediate fashion consultation from specialists, bloggers and influencers from around the globe. The AR tech is seamlessly blended with their fashion advice program that allows users to get real-time advice.

Amrutha Valli, Founder and CEO, PurpleApple

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PurpleApple Infosystems merchandises enable companies to ‘Engage, Entertain & Educate’ the clients efficiently to improve the products and services which, in turn, works to increase profits.

PurpleApple is one of the Top 50 Women Entrepreneur Program by NSRCEL (IIM Bangalore), one of top 30 Women Entrepreneur Empowerment Program by WEE Foundation (IIT Delhi) & XLR8AP (Andhra Pradesh Innovation Society, University Of Texas & FICCI).

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Seema Gaur, Executive VP & Head-IT at IFFCO Tokio General Insurance

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IFFCO Tokio General Insurance provides insurance ranging from office, motor, health, home, accident and travel. In the motor insurance category, the company ranks third among all private players. However, as many as 30 percent of its customers were not satisfied by the amount assessed by the claim officers.

“To overcome this issue, we supplemented our model that involved claim officers with another model wherein we tied up with an agency, which in turn tied up with motor garages. In case of any damage to the vehicle, a customer could upload the photographs from the spot directly from our mobile app. Upon receiving the photographs, the garage provided the repair estimate. While this proved to be effective, its impact was limited because this model was not pan-India,” Seema Gaur said to the Economic Times.

PurpleApple Infosystems merchandises enable companies to ‘Engage, Entertain & Educate’ the clients efficiently to improve the products and services which, in turn, works to increase profits.

Namita Gupta, Founder of Airveda

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After being Asthmatic for decades and dealing with air pollution in Delhi, Namita discerned that having a monitoring solution could assist people feeling more in charge of their well-being and the effects of air pollution. She found Airveda to provide this resolution.

Airveda provides affordable and accurate air quality monitors, designed, manufactured and serviced in India, calibrated for the Indian context. It also makes sound air quality data available to all, so every individual can monitor and take steps to decrease their vulnerability to bad air quality.

Harmeen Mehta, Global Chief Information Officer and Head Cloud and Security Business of Bharti Airtel

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Harmeet began her career in Airlines and then moved on to Investment Banking. Now she is a canon in the Telecom Industry. One thing she has discovered is how technology, when used accurately, can help transform the face of the business and give one the right competitive edge in the market.

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She believes a technologist's job now is not just about using modern technologies but it is also about cultivating a more in-depth knowledge of the business, along with having the strength to transpose their needs into a commodity or solution using the best technology accessible. Her dream is to build a genuinely digital Airtel powered by technology.

Airveda provides affordable and accurate air quality monitors, designed, manufactured and serviced in India, calibrated for the Indian context.

Saumya Rastogi is an intern with SheThePeople.TV

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