Women Entrepreneurship: Top 10 Women Entrepreneurs in India

Updated on : 2021-Jan-16 23:44:33 | Author :

Introduction:
Women entrepreneurs in india have been constantly striving through out the various industries over years. Women have shown that the hand that rocks the cradle, rules the world. Kalpana Saroj went on to be the first women entrepreneur in India. Nowadays, women’s start up has been the most exclusive successes that they are uplifting in every aspects whether its fashion or technology. Young women around the globe is leading almost half the nation and setting examples with ease and grace.


Causes of women becoming entrepreneurs-
Its obvious that men start their business to achieve independence and sovereignty in their careers. They want to build up something of their own and so do women.

 

Women entrepreneurship is good for Indian economy-
With the active participation of young women in start ups and entrepreneurship, the country’s economy has seemed to be boosting over the years. The female entrepreneurship list is constantly rosing and reaching a next level of progress.

Top 10 Women Entrepreneurs in India :

 

  1. Shalini Passi – She is an Indian arts patron, artist, philanthropist, and design collector from Delhi. She helds exhibitions and is one of the top women entrepreneur in India. Besides running her enterprise, she is actively involved in educating under-privileged children by conducting workshops and providing them with opportunities in learning art and craft. Passi became one of the famous young women entrepreneur and founded ‘’the Delhi society for the welfare of special children" in 2018. The Shalini Passi Art foundation helps to grow and promote young artists.

 

  1. Molly Chakraborty- Molly Chakraborty, a Kolkata based electrical engineer, completed her B.tech from Jadavpur University. She flew to the Us while working with oracle and even continued pursuing her phd, but eventually came back. She startec her journey as a women entrepreneur with Trinamix, a US-based company and provides with supply chain management facilities to business transform into an organization.

 

  1. Chadni kapadia- She designed the pricing strategy for the world-famous coffee brand Starbucks. It was a turning point in her life which had fetch her Carlson Trading UK, Delta Trade International, Debenhams PLC. She has outstripped her responsibilities as Country Head, Business Head and Asia Pacific Head in companies like NEXT, Accessorize, Calvin Kl. She studied merchandising from USA, and then pursued her master’s from London business school. Besides being an entrepreneur, she has also earned a degree in law and is still practicing at Nanavati and Nanavati, Ahmedabad.

 

  1. Falguni Nyar - Proving that age is just a number, she  started as an entrepreneur in 2001. Having served as the managing director of the Kotak Mahindra Bank for over 18 years, she resigned to build her own enterprise. The idea of bringing different fashion hubs under one roof led her to the foundation of Nyka in 2012, has reached its enormous level of appreciation and acceptance among the audience since then.

 

  1. Chahat Agarwal- She is an invariably talented individual who holds the title of a director, trainer, designer, management consultant, branding expert, marketer, and strategist. With her start-up company Impact Study Biz, which is an inbred commixture of business and brand strategy. Her company helps to grow start-ups through some innovative strategies and molds them into a stronger organization.

 

  1. Sunaina Khanna- Started as the Managing Director of Methods Apparel Consultancy which later became one of the leading consulting companies working extensively to improve the operational efficiencies of Apparel Manufacturers in the world. She joined the company when the emergence of the Indian operations came into existence. She has also been recognized with the Kaushal Acharya award for Master Trainer by the ministry of skills for her exceptional contribution to the Skilling domain for executing the highest number of TOTs.

 

 

  1. Aditi Gupta – Being a women entrepreneur, she started her journey through a book of comics called menstrupedia after she got devastated seeing people having such misconceptions about menstruation. Menstrupedia has benefited over 6,000 schools more than 10,00,000 girls in over 14 languages. She has also spoken in the ted talk show and was listed in 30 under 30 female entrepreneurship list for breaking the stereotypical stigmas and her work has also been featured in the wall street journal, Reuters, CNBC, and BBC.

 

  1. Chitra Gurnani Daga- Such a young women entrepreneur without any prior experience started only because of her keen interest in the business. She is the co-founder of Thrillophilia along with her husband Abhishek Daga. She is also an alumnus of the Indian business school. Her passion for traveling is enormously bending her towards establishing her company with a brand name of over 3.5 million monthly users and thus making her placed among the top women entrepreneurs in India.

 

 

  1. Radhika Agarwal- She is the founder of India’s one of the leading online shopping portals ShopClues.com and is one of the leading women entrepreneurs in India. Having specialized in Advertising and Public Relations, she has also planned strategies for Nordstrom and also performed responsively in the Wealth Management Group of Goldman Sachs in New York and Menlo Park, US. She started Shopclues in Silicon Valley in 2011 with her co-founders Sanjay Sethi and Sandeep Aggarwal.

 

  1. Richa Kar - Richa Kar is the co-founder and the CEO of Zivame, an online lingerie store. Setting up of a lingerie retail market was first conceptualized by her. Setting up a lingerie retail market was first conceptualized byt her. As a female entrepreneur she could understand that women felt embarrassment while buying lingerie in local outlets. With the launch of the Lingerie market, Richa stirred up being the most unique women entrepreneur in India.

 

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