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Rejected by eleven investors, she bootstrapped a delivery network with six second-hand scooters. Today it moves two lakh parcels a day.
Meera Iyer · Founder & CEO, SwiftLane Logistics
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The first woman to lead her family’s century-old textile group explains how she modernised it without losing its soul.
Priya Kapoor · Chairperson, Kapoor Mills GroupLakshmi Devi started with evening classes in a temple courtyard. Her cooperative now sells handloom to buyers in 14 countries.
Lakshmi Devi · Founder, Nesam Weavers CollectiveRohan Das started a WhatsApp group to help five friends prepare for interviews. Four years later, 3 lakh learners use…
Rohan Das · Founder, CodeChaiVikram Reddy lost everything in his first venture. What he learned from that failure built one of India’s fastest-growing agritech…
Vikram Reddy · Co-founder & CEO, FieldNextSpotlight
Co-founder & Chief Scientist, SoundSeed Labs
Good design is not about adding features. It is about removing every reason a person might stop using the device.
From zero to one
Sunita and Ananya Rao turned a grandmother’s recipes into a direct-to-consumer brand that ships to 22 countries.
Ananya Rao · Co-founder, Ammamma’s KitchenNobody would fund us, so we had to be profitable from the first month. That constraint became our biggest strength.
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Breaking barriers
Deepa Bhatt left the civil services to build a lending platform for women-led village businesses. Its repayment rate is 98.6…
Deepa Bhatt · Founder & CEO, Sakhi CapitalThe first woman to lead her family’s century-old textile group explains how she modernised it without losing its soul.
Priya Kapoor · Chairperson, Kapoor Mills GroupFresh off the desk
At 61, Suresh Patil used his pension and banking network to fund community-run water filters. Nineteen years later, the villages…
Suresh Patil · Founder, Jal Mitra TrustRahul Menon took charge of a regional airline weeks from shutdown. His playbook is about people as much as numbers.
Rahul Menon · Chief Executive Officer, SkyBridge RegionalImran Sheikh’s low-cost extrusion process has converted 4,000 tonnes of plastic into furniture for 1,100 government schools.
Imran Sheikh · Founder, ReForm WorksNikhil Sharma and Ayesha Khan built a plug-and-pay charger network that small shops can host for less than the cost…
Ayesha Khan · Co-founder & CTO, ChargeDotUsing free satellite data and a smartphone, Stella Fernandes built the first community-run erosion map of the Konkan coast.
Stella Fernandes · Founder, ShoreWatch Collective
Introduction: Why Your Traceloans.com Credit Score is Your Financial Passport In today’s society, your credit score is more than simply…
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