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15 Successful Indian Startups by Women
Women all over the world are showing their entrepreneurial skills
by starting new companies. Here in India we have many such inspiring stories
where women have created well known brands in the country.
In this article we try to list 15 most successful startups by
women. They were either founder or co-founder of the following start ups.
You will be surprised to know that startups started by women are
less likely to fail compared with a startup
started by a man.
15. Anisha Singh of MyDala
Well she has a solid background, she holds a masters degree in
political communication and MBA in information systems from American
University.
Earlier she also worked for Clinton Administration for raising
funds aiding women entrepreneurs.
14. Radhika Ghai Aggarwal for ShopClues
Radhika is Co Founder and CMO of ShopClues one of the India’s
largest shopping sites named Shop Clues.
Radhika is a product right from Silicon Valley. She started this
site from there and before this she was a fashion blogger.
Shop Clues has over 8 million visitors per month.
13. Upasana Taku from MobiKwik
Upasana Taku is a co founder of MobiKwik online mobile phone top
up website. She is also founder of Zaakpay a payment company that deals with
ecommerce websites.
As far as her educational qualification is concerned she is B.Tech
from NIIT, MS in management science & engineering from Standford
University.
12. Sabina Chopra of Yatra.com
Sbina is co founder of Yatra.com a well known travel
portal. She had exposure in travel industry hence it made easy for her starting
a travelling website.
She worked for Europe’s leading online travelling company then she
also worked for Japan Airlines before launching Yatra.com.
11. Neeru Sharma of Infibeam.com
Neeru is co founder of another famous ecommerce portal named Infibeam.com. Neeru has worked for
Amazon USA in corporate development and media retail. 
As far as her educational qualification goes she holds a MBA
degree from Carnegie Mellon and Engineering degree in computer science.
10. Falguni Nayyar of Nykaa
portal was launched in the year 2012 and has been able to raise
over Rs 20 crore as seed funding.
She is a graduate from IIM Ahmadabad and worked 18 years for Kotak
Mahindra as Managing Director.
9. Chitra Gurnani Daga of Thrillophilia
She has a MBA and engineering degree both.
8. Richa Kar from Zivame
Richa Kar is Co founder and CEO of Zivame launched in year 2011
from Bangalore. Zivame is India’s one of the largest lingerie online retailing
shop.
The USP of this web portal is it gives women choice of choosing an
item right from home rather going to physical outlet. 
Richa has prior experience in branding and retail marketing also.
7. Pankhuri Shrivastava of GrabHouse
Pankhuri is the co founder of India’s first roommate search engine
called Grab House. The reason for the
success of Grab House is you save a lot of brokering charges. 
She has a degree in Computer science from Bhopal University and
she also did two year fellowship at Teach for India.
6. Shradha Sharma of Your Story
You all know about YourStory website. It deals with
some of the success stories related to entrepreneurship. Shradha a girl from
Patna is founder of this website.
Earlier she worked for times of India and CNBC TV 18 and gained
experienced from field reporting and was inspired to launch her own website
called Your Story.
5. Suchi Mukherjee for Lime Road
Suchi is founder of Limeroad.com a web portal designed
for urban woman. The portal gives them a choice for choosing clothes that they
had like to.
She was a banker with Lehman Brothers for 5 years then 2 years as
Director and Business development manager in Virgin Media.
4. Rashi Choudhary of LocalBanya.com
Local Banya is specifically designed for Mumbai, Thane and Navi
Mumbai area. The portal is quite popular because of 98% deliverance rate.
3. Shubhra Chadda from Chumbak
Prabhakar. This online store sells apparels designed for young
Indians.
Chumbak has over 120 retail stores all across the country.
2. Ankita Gaba of Social Samosa
SocialSamosa is co founded by Ankita
Gaba. The site has ideas, trends and news related to Indian social media.
Ankita is also listed in Global 100 Social Media Agencies and
Consultant for 2012-2103. She also worked as PR executive in various companies.
1. Sairee Chahal for SHEROES.in
Sairee is also a well known TED speaker and a finalist for
Cartier’s Women’s Award Initiative for 2012.
Her web portal sheroes.in offer women a space for conversation
with other likeminded women.
So this was the list of some of the most successful startups
started by talented women in the country. Although there are many others but we
restricted our list to 15 only.
I Think you are satisfied this …………….
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