Stories of inspirational Woman Entrepreneurs

Shradha SharmaFounder and Chief Editor, YourStory

Started YourStory in 2008, Shradha lives her life in stories. She believes, every story is unique and every story matters. Armed with degrees from St. Stephens College, Delhi and MICA, Ahmedabad, prior to founding YourStory Shradha worked with Times of India and CNBC TV18.

In 2015, she was selected in the list of 500 LinkedIn Influencers across the world. In 2015, (March) Shradha received the L’Oreal Paris Femina Award for Online Influence.

Ameera ShahMD & CEO, Metropolis Healthcare Limited

Ameera joined her father’s pathology lab, and has grown it from a single pathology laboratory in 2002 to a fully integrated multinational chain with centers across South Asia, Middle East and Africa. She holds a degree in Finance from The University of Texas at Austin and has completed the Owner-President Management Program at Harvard Business School.  

Amira has been honored with ‘Exemplary Women Leadership award’ at the World Women Leadership and Congress awards 2014 and Forbes Asia’s Power Business Women 2015.

Upasana Taku

Upasana spent her formative professional years as a product manager at PayPal, San Jose. She started her startup journey with MobiKwik, where she figured out the online payment problems that web businesses in India face.

After an engineering degree from the NIT Jalandhar, she joined the Stanford university's SLAC as a research assistant. Being a woman, she firmly believes that there is nothing that women cannot achieve in a male dominated society.

Co-founder, MobiKwik

Aditi AvasthiFounder and CEO at embibe

Aditi Avasthi, ‘Chief Embiber’, founded Embibe in 2012, an ed-tech startup that combines technology and data sciences, and helps students prepare better for competitive complex exams.

She did her MBA from Booth School of Business, Chicago. The possibility of giving young people a better trajectory keeps her motivated.

Radhika AggarwalCo-founder & CMO, ShopClues

As a Co-Founder of ShopClues, she has carefully nurtured the brand to make it a household name in less than 4 years. She is an accomplished speaker and a strong proponent of women entrepreneurship. Before co-founding ShopClues in 2011, Radhika worked with Nordstrom at its corporate headquarters in strategy planning in Seattle and with Goldman Sachs in its Wealth Management group in New York and Menlo Park, USA.

Radhika has an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis and a post-graduate degree in Advertising and Public Relations.

Shabnam AggarwalCEO & CTO at KleverKid

A social entrepreneur in Delhi, Shabnam founded KleverKid which is AirBnB for Learning 2013. She worked in Pearson on ed-tech products.

She did her BS from Carnegie Mellon University. Shabnam believes all children can and will learn, it is simply a matter of the opportunities they have to learn and how their learning connects with their lives today.