Successful Women Entrepreneurs in India to Remind You That You Can Truly Start Anywhere

Aditi Gupta is one of the Indian women entrepreneurs who is an author and the co-founder of the comic Menstrupedia. Tired of the myths and misinformation that surrounded Menstruation she took it upon herself to make a change. She and her husband co-founded the comic in 2012. In 2014 she was listed on the Forbes India 30 under 30 list for her work towards breaking the taboo. Today, Menstrupedia has been used in more than 6,000 schools and has benefited more than 10,00,000 girls in over 14 languages.

Aditi is a social woman entrepreneur in India working towards raising awareness about menstruation. She is a Ted Talk speaker and her work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, CNBC and BBC

What is Menstrupedia?

Menstrupedia is a complete guide about periods that is taught in more than 30 schools across India. They also have several free resources available to help break the taboo.
Founding Year : 2012
Investors: The Morpheus
Address: Ahmedabad

Basudha Shrivastav co-founded Expres Earth Digital services, a travel agency that takes care of all your travel needs, in 2015. Her co-found Himanshu Narula was also her schoolmate. Both of them were interested in starting a venture in travel. Which is why they quit their jobs and jumped into entrepreneurship and a marriage. Express Earth takes care of all your travel needs, from hotels, cars, flights, insurance and more for both B2B and B2C clients. Basudha holds a graduation degree from Delhi University and has experience working in the IT sector. Her company has won several awards for being an innovative travel company including the ‘Most Innovative Travel Management Company’ by India Travel Award North.

“When I look back, I see that whenever one door closed, another one would open. I’m happy that certain things didn’t happen, else I would not have known what I know today,”

What is ExpressEarth?

ExpressEarth has created a niche environment for smart travellers. It’s a unique channel that provides different options for travelling that truly suit you and not a travel company or agent. They provide travel options for corporate travels too. They have won several awards including NASSCOM 10k programme. The programme and The Startup India programme truly helped the startup in its early days from its establishment in 2015.
Founding Year : 2015
Address:Uttar Pradesh

Ashwini co-founded a cloud-based platform Mad Street Den with her husband Anand Chandrasekaran. She has experience leading the mobile innovation team at Intel’s Interaction and Experience Research Lab in Silicon Valley. She has more than a decade’s worth of experience in Silicon Valley. This led to her interest in artificial intelligence.

Her experience of being a mother, a UI designer, a business development rep, an ethnographer, a program manager, a product manager and an artist helped her build her own path. Ashwini, a trained classical dancer has been featured in Fortune’s 40 under 40 lists. She has also been featured in several publications like Vogue, TechCrunch, Nikkei and more.

What is Mad Street Den (MAD)?

MAD is an Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision company. Their mission is to build models of generalizable intelligence to make it available for use to billions of people. Today, with a team of 175+ MAD is revolutionising the fashion industry with its Image recognition platform, Vue.ai launched in 2016.
Founding Year : 2013
Funding : $21.2M
Investors : Global Brain Corporation, Sequoia Capital, Falcon Edge Capital, KDDI, Array Ventures
Address:Chennai