The company recently raised undisclosed funding with some of the marquee names to invest being Rangarajan Krishnan. Deepak Shahdadpuri, Abhay Hanjura and Vivek Gupta along with Sovereign Fund, Silicon Valley Bank, Robinhood, & Facebook.
The company has set lofty goals for the future as the company wants to emerge as an education leader, expand into suburban, rural, and remote areas, make education accessible for learners across the country, scale the platform into an education giant
Actor Samantha Ruth Prabhu has invested in the e-commerce platform SustainKart. Samantha's contribution is part of the seed round for the company. According to the firm, the funds raised during the seed round shall be utilized for customer acquisition marketing and so that offline retail stores can provide an in-store customer experience.
According to the World Bank, doubling the percentage of women in the workforce would boost India's growth rate from 7.5 per cent to 9 per cent and raise the country's GDP to $700 billion by 2025.
In a filmmaking community dominated by males, women leaders were rare and their role in films was framed around the concept of stereotypes. But over the last two decades there has been a change at various levels. One of the individuals who is part of this change is Radhika Lavu, Founder & MD, Ellanar Films.
If you look at the glamorous photos of Chinu Kala, founder of jewellery brand Rubans Accessories, on her Instagram feed, one could never guess that she has slept on a railway platform after leaving her house as a teenager. At the age of 15 years, the stubborn girl had a fight with her parents and decided to leave the shelter of her home armed with only a pair of slippers, one salwar suit and INR 300.
Despite the many hurdles, women entrepreneurs have always claimed a space for themselves within the business sector and more broadly as contributors to India's economy
The beauty mogul, Charlotte Tilbury tells us about her journey into the beauty industry, her ultimate makeup tips and beauty secrets β including how she keeps her own skin looking so flawless and how you can use makeup to cheat your way to fuller lips, bigger eyes, and supermodel definition
The outbreak of the pandemic last year had dire consequences for the informal workforce across the board, but data and research show that recovery has not been gender-neutral
Slurrp Farm was started in 2016 by two mothers, Meghana Narayan and Shauravi Malik, with the idea to bring back super grains such as bajra, jowar, and ragi into children's diet
As a women-friendly crop, cocoa has successfully bridged the gap of lack of diversity and inclusion to become a source of equal employment and income to thousands of women farmers