Women Entrepreneurs

Top ten Women entrepreneurs in India- 2021

March 9, 2021

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Top ten Women entrepreneurs in India- 2021

1 Vandana Luthra

She is an Indian inspirational entrepreneur. Vandana is the founder of VLCC Health care Ltd. VLCC sells beauty products and wellness conglomerates. The company is coming across in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Europe. In 2014 she became chairperson of the Beauty and wellness sector skills council that is not a profitable organization, the BWSSC gets financial support from NSDC which comes under the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.

2 Priya Paul

Priya is an Indian woman Entrepreneur who is chairperson of Apeejay Surrendra park hotels. After completing her studies from Wellesley College (US), she began to work as marketing manager under her father. At the age of 51, she was considered one of the most influential women. As per Wikipedia, in 2012, Priya Paul revised India’s most honorable award called Padma Shri Award by Pratibha Shing Patil (Former Indian president).

3 Kiran Mazumdar Shaw

She is known as India’s wealthiest self-made women entrepreneur who found a biopharmaceutical firm in 1978. This firm has entered the US biosimilars market and is gaining the focus of investors. According to Forbes, it is the first company to get approval from the USFDA. A huge worth has been put to build a deep R&D- Based biotech firm. In 2019  Kiran Mazumdar shaw occupied the title of Indian’s 54th richest person and world’s 65th powerful woman. She has qualified her bachelor’s and master’s degree from Bangalore University and Melbourne University respectively.

4 Roshni Nadar

Roshni Nadar Malhotra is a businesswoman as well as the chairperson of HCL Technologies and the first woman to lead a listed IT company in India. As claimed by IIFL Wealth Hurun India Rich List 2019 she is the richest woman in India. Roshni is the single child of Shiv Nadar the founder of HCL. She ranked 54th on the Forbes World’s 100 Most Powerful Women list in 2019.

5 Falguni Nayar

After working 20 years as an investment banker with Kotak Mahindra, Falguni Nayar left the job to pursue her own dream. In 2012, she established a company Nykaa, which sells online cosmetic and wellness products. At present, the company has become famous among Indian women. The company provides more than 850 brands and has introduced 35 physical stores. In 2017, she got the title of “Most powerful business “by Business Today. Falguni Nayar also received the “Woman Ahead” award at the Economic Times. Since 2014, The Company has been a partner with Femina.

6 Ashwini Asokan

Ashwini Asokan is the founder and CEO of Mad Street Den which is an Artificial Intelligence company, powering the Retail industry with its Image recognition platform, Vue.ai.

The company is head placed in the Bay Area, California with offices in Seattle and Chennai (India). Vue.ai works with marquee retailers, brands, and marketplaces across the globe, transforming the fashion industry’s operations through intelligent automation. She has been featured on Fortune’s 40 under 40 list and has also been presented in over 100 publications including Forbes, TechCrunch, Nikkei, and Vogue.

7 Shradha Sharma

The Founder and Chief Editor of YourStory. Shradha lives her life in stories. She believes, every story is exceptional and every story matters. Qualified with degrees from St. Stephens College, Delhi and MICA, Ahmedabad, prior to founding YourStory Shradha worked with CNBC TV18 and Times of India. She was selected in the list of 500 LinkedIn Influencers all around the world In 2015 she also received the L’Oreal Paris Femina Award for Online Influence in the same year.

8 Chitra Gurnani

She is the co-founder of Thrillophilia Tours Pvt. Ltd, an adventure tours and travel company. The company was founded in 2009 after a lot of discussion, research, and debates. They have hired trained adventure experts, qualified professionals, and skilled staff, who are passionate to serve people. Thrillophilia runs a website, blog, and twitter account. The company is hardly focusing on the SEO services to make it superior. The company deals with authentic suppliers and best activities in the interest of others. Chitra is a dynamic, energetic, and an amazing human being, who loves to travel and strongly believes in ‘Delightful Customer Experience’.

9 Divya Gokulnath

Co-founder and teacher of BYJU’S. Byju Raveendran and his wife created the company together and named it BYJU’S—The Learning App. The journey has been wildly rewarding, with an overwhelming 70 million registered students learning through this app. According to the latest report, Byju Raveendran and Divya Gokulnath have been ranked 46th on an India Rich List and have a combined net worth of $3.05 billion (approximately Rs 22.3 thousand crores) in 2020.

10 Prukalpa Sankar

Prukalpa Sankar is the Cofounder of Atlan home for data teams. On a quest to democratize data for teams everywhere. Previously founded SocialCops, world leading data for good company (New York Times Global Visionary, World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer)

Prukalpa was Awarded Economic Times Emerging Entrepreneur for the Year, Forbes 30u30, Fortune 40u40, Top 10 CNBC Young Business Women 2016. TED Speaker.

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