Women Who Lead: How these 5 Indian women are soaring through Bharat's Startup ecosystem

Who runs the world, rightfully said Beyonce in her song - girls. Now when the women are taking a lead in every field, it's time we start celebrating women leadership.

Women have not only displayed their skills but have been successful at making their presence felt.

With start-up culture and entrepreneurship taking new turns in the country, women are no less in the list.

These women start-up Founders and entrepreneurs have proved to the world that women can lead the business and gender does not play a role when it comes to counting one’s calibre.

This International Women’s day let’s celebrate all women by supporting them and recognising them.

Some of these women founders are making a difference in society with their innovative ideas and breaking the stereotype with women leadership.

Women are setting new examples and standards in terms of business stability and growth.

Taking the ownership with confidence and building an empire of women entrepreneurs, these women are also uplifting other women around them and the community in general.

Breaking the conventional barriers and setting the examples right, these women are disrupting the start-up ecosystem and being the change

Divya Goluknath

Co-Founder of Byju’s and a leading woman in the EdTech industry. Byju’s which has recently become a $12Bn valued start-up.

Divya started her career young at the age of 21 as a teacher and today has taken Byju’s alongside her husband Raveendran as the leading online learning platform in the country.

The journey from 2015-2021 was not easy, taking care of her family and the business simultaneously Divya has been acing at both her departments pretty well.

Having come from a family of educators, Divya has always been keen on providing children with value-based education without hampering the effective learning along with nurturing overall development.

Keeping her vision in focus and making good use of the developments that have taken place in the learning industry, Divya has whole heartedly contributed for the growth and development of business.

As a women entrepreneur, she is leading the way in for other women with her inspiring story.

Ajaita Shah

Founder and CEO of Frontier Markets, a social start-up that provides last-mile delivery and distribution of products and services to rural Indians and has successfully generated employment and entrepreneurship opportunities to rural women.

Ajaita has 15+ years’ experience in rural India through microfinance, rural distribution, marketing, and gender inclusive business models, and technology.

She is also the recipient of Forbes 30 Under 30 global, Digital Women of the Year and many such recognitions.

She was also a social activist and speaker at the UN Summit, on social entrepreneurship, digital inclusion, gender smart investing.

Frontier Markets has on boarded more than 10,000 rural women entrepreneurs in 2000 villages.

The start-up is also making the rural women tech savvy with the high quality technologically based solutions for everyday life.

With a vision of making rural women more independent, Ajaita is continuously trying to make a difference in the rural employment and lifestyle.

Sneha Priya

Co-Founder & CEO SP Robotic Works, an Edutainment start-up excelling in the field of Robotics and empowering other local women with micro-entrepreneurial opportunities with India's largest network of maker labs.

Sneha started the business career at 19, back-packing across the country, going hands-on, participating and winning in national and international competitions in Robotics to eventually create the idea behind SP Robotic Works.

She is one of the youngest women to be awarded as "Iconic Women" by the Women Economic Forum.

From spearheading the development of curriculum and courseware to chartering the growth of the community, she is a driving force behind all of the company’s initiatives.

Sneha is not just making a difference in the male driven tech sector, but has recently collaborated with 50+ Women micro-entrepreneurs PAN India and helped them grow with their maker labs in the time of Covid.

Yashika Keswani

Co-founder and Coo Coolberg Beverages, India’s First Non-alcoholic Beer.

With a vision and mission of changing the drinking trends in the country and providing the consumers with a premium experience, Yashika along with Panjak, Founder and CEO Coolberg started Coolberg in 2016.

Today Coolberg is one of the leading beverages brands in India serving more than 3Mn customers in 25,000 stores across the country.

Yashika is an independent working woman and one of the few leading entrepreneurs in the FMCG sector, who started the idea from a scratch and has successfully built a name in the industry.

She has also been recently awarded by Entrepreneur India 35 under 35 Most Influential People alongside.

Yashika further aims to build a millennial driven food and beverage which deals in modern and innovative products.

Debashree Ghatak

Co-founder and CEO ReNEWate, a Pune based PropTech start-up which provides cutting-edge technology to real estate designers and contractors at large.

Debashree is a seasoned architect with 12+ years of experience and passion to imbibe new-age technologies into architecture, construction and property renovation to leverage their benefits and make day-to-day tasks for the AEC Industry easier.

With one of its kind and the first in India, Debashree is not only leading the male driven property and technology space but bringing in a change and creating space for more women in the industry.

Debashree is one of the first women in the proptech industry to lead a business successfully making it impactful enough for a bigger noise.