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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
Some of India’s biggest real estate names were built over generations. Kabul Chawla’s was built in one. A first-generation entrepreneur…
Anil Kapoor is one of the rare Indian actors who has remained relevant across several generations. From the streets of…
Nana Patekar was one of the most distinctive and respected actors in Indian cinema. Known for his powerful dialogue delivery,…
Arjun Mehta runs a 9,000-person engineering company. One day a week he still works a shift — and it has…
Arjun Mehta · Managing Director, Northstar EngineeringDr. Kavya Nair’s ₹1,999 hearing aid is solar-charged, repairable in any village and now used by more than 60,000 people.
Dr. Kavya Nair · Co-founder & Chief Scientist, SoundSeed LabsLakshmi 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, CodeChaiThe 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 GroupVikram 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, FieldNextAt 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 TrustSunita 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 Kitchen