Kriti Gupta
A Tech Entrepreneur and Swayamsiddha women achiever awardee has started her journey from Lucknow in Dec’15 with a motive of creating IT opportunities locally.
She strongly supports “Beti padhaao and beti employ karo” as she believes in the multitasking capabilities of girls. Her women-centric initiatives in the past were also acknowledged by UP govt.
Aunkita Nandi
Co-founder / Managing Director of Tier 5 – the first ever community owned and operated software development firm, that specializes in making innovative and user-friendly products that enable the business owners to attain more clients and grow their business simultaneously.Hailing from one of the oldest towns of Bengal, Burdwan, Ankita is born to a middle class family. Her father is a Government employee and mother is a homemaker. Since her childhood, Aunkita dreamt of starting her own company that would create opportunities for others in the society. True to her vision, she started working towards her dreams since her college days and came out with API based applications. After completing her software engineering degree from an engineering college of Burdwan, Aunkita continued to develop applications and finally, in 2015, she co- founded Tier5, along with Mr. Jon Vaughn, who is the Co – founder and CEO of the company. Since its inception in January 2016, Tier5 already has a base of more than 15000 happy customers across the globe and this number is growing rapidly. Headquartered in Indiana, USA, Tier5 has an additional office in Kolkata, India as well. The company has more than 25 state of the art software products in its kitty and is coming up with 8 more products in the near future. Aunkita also spearheads ‘Helping Hands’ – the corporate social responsibility (CSR) wing of Tier 5 and plans to spread happiness and smiles among the underprivileged section of the society and empower them with education and learning, which can create professional opportunities for them.
Aunkita loves to ideate, experiment and execute new applications and software. In her free time, she loves to spend time with her fur babies, pai and Mu.
Aunkita is the winner of ‘India 5000 Women Achievers Award 2021’ by India 5000 and ‘Designated Woman Awards 2021’ by Beyond Average.
Sheeba Iqbal: “Aab-O-Dana”
Sheeba Iqbal Jairajpuri, an entrepreneur. started a home-dining experience called ‘Aab-O-Dana’. She lives in a house built in 1901 that beams of culture and heritage. Through ‘Aab-O-Dana’, she took forward age-old traditions and values and provide visitors with an extravagance of mouth-watering, classic dishes while basking in the air of Lucknawi tehzeeb and nawabs ambience.
At Aab-O-Dana, visitors are served dishes not found in a regular restaurant. The recipes have been preserved and passed down several generations as heirlooms. The recipes of my ancestors are kept alive and adorned my guests with everything that screams Lucknow and its fascinating culture.
Rinnku G
Rinnku is on a mission to help 100,000 people ‘Discover their Mojo’, their unique blueprint to success and happiness, using a mix of behavioural profiling tools, people development interventions and occult sciences. She is a NumeroVastu consultant, speaker, POSH consultant, and founder of Rightwaay, an HR consulting firm. Her Nakshatra Tribe is a strong community of people helping each other to Learn, Grow and Reach for the Stars! Her book ‘Soul Spa for Young Adults’ is out on Amazon. She loves writing in Hindi and English and her poems have been published in multiple anthologies and holds a certificate of publication by the World Book of Records, London. WhatsApp+91-9916000116 for personal consultations. Reach out on www.rinnkug.com. Subscribe to her YouTube channel https://bit.ly/rinnkug. Follow her on Insta: http://www.instagram.com/rinnkug
Nidhi Banthia Mehta
Nidhi is a silicon valley serial entrepreneur, Public Speaker, Entrepreneurship Trainer, Business Coach, Podcaster, Mentor, and adventure sports & travel enthusiast. She is the founder of Stepz (USA), BollyBeatz.com ( Health, Fitness & Wellness space – USA, Singapore & India) , NeedyBee (E-Commerce & Etailing brand – India), SelfAchievers (EDTech). She has successfully built companies in the product and service sector and sold them. An MBA Graduate from SP Jain Institute of Management & Research and an LSR Graduate in B.Com Hons. Nidhi has a certificate in Entrepreneurship from ISB Hyderabad & Harvard. She comes with an entrepreneurial experience of 20 years and two years of work experience with McKinsey&Co. Nidhi received the distinguished Women’s Economic Forum Award for her contribution in the field of “Corporate wellness and well being: Transforming Leadership”; Womennovator Global Summit 2021 Awardee for Women Empowerment and Niti Ayog’s Top 100 women Transforming India and is currently nominated for the Global Women in Leadership Award 2022. She is a TEDx speaker. Her work portfolio includes UNWomen, 36 Government Atal Incubation Centers across all Indian states, WeHub Telangana Govt, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy for Administration, Manipal-BioNest Incubator, StartUp Oasis for Rajasthan Govt, and more. Nidhi is a published author, Yoga practitioner and a Mentor, Educator, and evangelist for Refugee Entrepreneurship and Women Entrepreneurship.
Website: www.selfachievers.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nidhibanthiamehta/
Aishwarya Pewal
Aishwarya Pewal is passionate and active… May it be anything. She loves her work, n let work love her. She has been working as a Voice Over Artist for 5 years now. She had worked for Maharashtra DGIPR, Tata Sky, DishTV, BollywoodBubble, and many more. She was appointed as the official RJ for UNICEF Child Programme in Maharashtra. Apart from voiceovers, she is a super-talented and versatile anchor and producer. She is currently working with Lokmat Media Pvt Ltd and leading one channel -Lokmat Sakhi as an Anchor.
She also had worked with Pillai’s college, Navi Mumbai as a Guest Lecturer. When it comes to running a business basically of your own talent, one needs dedication and she has it all.
She has the skill of attracting audiences and making it a hit story.
Apart from the professional front, she is a Guinness Book Of World Records Holder in Bharatnatyam and Lavani. She teaches Bharatnatyam online for 1 and a half years.
Talent, dedication, a positive approach, and being a student for a life which helps in learning every single day, all these qualities have made her a self- made independent woman.
Meghna Agarwal
The entrepreneurial journey of Meghna Agarwal, Cofounder IndiQube spans over 15 years of experience has been about challenging the status quo, believing in self, and beating the odds. Her interest in diverse sectors has led her on a journey of growth across manufacturing, HR, consulting, and commercial real estate. This exposure has helped her create great value through the companies she has cofounded, namely UltraFine Minerals, HirePro & IndiQube.Meghna’s achievements have been recognized with several awards including her being featured amongst “Shepreneurs Women to Watch” in 2021 by Entrepreneur Media, winning the “Women Entrepreneur of the Year” Award at Startup Awards 2021 & ‘Young Achievers Award’ for excellence in Real Estate by ET Now.
Kamala Shah
My life is no exception to other entrepreneurs in that it’s been replete with trials and errors, experiments and lessons, profits and risks etc – and all these dozen odd years of learnings, I have condensed in my affiliate model for aspiring women entrepreneurs. It is aimed to help serve a cushion for all those qualified women who are unable to strike work-life balance thru employment but would still aim to be productive. The main line of my business is to help students strike their fortune in foreign countries thru our well-networked team that includes world class universities to high commission officers of various countries. Not stopping with making careers for students and professionals who look for career opportunities abroad thru my Affiliate model, I also support those in India, especially women, who particularly would need some handholding to re-establish themselves in life thru career using self-employment model with no risk or high investment.
Neha Vertika
Neha Vertika is a poetess, writer and a Tarot Card reader from Lucknow (presently living in Zurich Switzerland). An MBA by qualification, who has worked as a soft skill and motivational trainer in past in US & India, she is seen as a rising & promising face among poets and her writings are well acclaimed specially at social media platforms where she can be frequently seen in Facebook live poetry shows and also actively writing in various newspapers, magazines and Pratilipi etc.She has inherited this skill from her late grandfather Padamsri K.P Saxena , famous satirist & script writer for biggest Bollywood hits like Lagaan. She has been writing since childhood but her second journey as a poetess started 2 yrs back where one of her rendition on her city Lucknow ‘Main aur Mera Lucknow, ‘written at a famous Facebook group Lucknow Connection Worldwide became immensely popular and Viral.Her dream is to be remembered as a poetess whose writing touches the heart and can make meaningful contribution to the society. https://www.facebook.com/nvertika
Dr. M.Babita Mukhyara
is basically chemical engineer and PhD in Mechanical engineering from
Jntuh. I am blessed with 14years research experience at Indian Institute of chemical
technology, IICT. I received fellowship as women scientist for three years from DST, Delhi
2009- 2012.I got selected from India to present scientific paper at London, Westminster in June
- I also published two scientific papers in international journals of Elsevier as the first
author. I am the life member for Indian Institute of chemical engineers IICHE.
I stepped in as entrepreneur from last 5 years in BOUNTEN Company as chief technology officer
with my product Zoftnor – water softener, which is zero maintenance. Zoftnor is a “state of art”
in water softeners with most advanced intelligent German-based Technology. It is specially
designed keeping in mind the changing water quality and removing the existing scale from
pipelines. It gives you the most advanced water quality standards. Reduces Scaling issues with
the Showerhead It removes chemical contaminants, making the water much less harsh.
I received special recognition award at Rural innovators start – up conclave RISC – 2019, held at
National Institute of rural development and Panchyati Raj. Hyd. I am also annual member at
Confederation of women entrepreneur COWE, Telangana chapter.
Anuradha Mantri Jaju
Anuradha Mantri Jaju, is a person and professional driven by the ultimate purpose of life.
By academia, she holds a doctorate degree in Botany, later decided to become an entrepreneur. She is the FOUNDER & CEO OF EAGLEDATA SOLUTIONS, a data management services company with several international clienteles. Among her peers, she is a highly respected business leader who believes in employee-first philosophy.
Anuradha is a well-known counselor with a key focus on helping women and children. She believes that this world can become a better place if we instill values in our young children and preferably even before they are born. With this holistic objective, she has shaped up ‘Talk n Share’ with a unique program on ‘Garbh Sanskar’. By now she has worked on nurturing hundreds of young souls. Speaking with her for a few minutes can tell how passionate she is towards Counseling and Garbh Sanskar, in her words, her ways of giving back to humankind.
She is a melodious singer who has been formally trained by Padma Vibhushan Pt. Channu Lal Mishra.
Anuradha Gupta
Mrs. Anuradha Gupta is a beautiful combination of simplicity, undaunted spirit, and innovative style. She is an ordinary person with extraordinary drive, compassion, innovative ideas, passion,
energy, and dedication.
An ardent Nature Lover or Earth Buddy, Social Innovator, Social Engineer, Sustainable Lifestyle Motivator, Transformational Trainer, Mentor,
Social Solopreneur, Founder & General Secretary of Prithvi Innovations, a not-for-profit social enterprise, she dons multiple roles with equal ease, joy, and balance. She has been a recipient of many awards and honours, mainly for her amazing environmental and social contribution, innovative out of box ideas, unparallel passion, dedication, consistent efforts, and for her simple, pro-active, participative, and practical approach.
On Dec. 2015 at PAN India level, she received the Grand Prize Winner Award from Honourable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi himself, for her all-encompassing idea of Reducing Food Wastage, ensuring food security and reducing malnutrition and hunger, as well as providing livelihood.
She has created Oxygen Hubs or factories by planting more than 25000 saplings, saving resources, and reviving the good healthy, sustainable cultural practices, rooted in our Sanskriti. https://www.prithviinnovations.org/
Anuradha Tamarisa Kandala
Happiness is the ultimate result of being a part of Happy Hearts. Anuradha Tamarisa Kandala, the founder, owner, educators, support staff, and parents work TOGETHER for a SMILE on the child’s face. She has work experience of close to 20 years.
We experienced great relationships, received abundant blessings, unconditional love, and timely support from everyone whether they are directly related to Happy Hearts or not.
She is a homeschooler to her two daughters ANVEDITHA, 11 YEARS, and VEDANVITHA 9 YEARS.
HAPPY HEARTS, a learning centre where CHILDREN ARE THE ONLY PRIORITY. A perfect example for SKILL-BASED LEARNING. She is an International qualified Access Consciousness Bars practitioner, a Tai Chi, Qi Gong practitioner, an educationist, free-lance SKILLS trainer.
Her work involves training children, parents, teachers. She is a soft skills trainer and has trained many corporates. She loves singing and reading. She aspires to reach out to young parents who desire to make their children HAPPY. Her day is filled with children and their happiness.
Dr Madhuri Agarwal
She is an Anesthetic dermatologist to some of the most beautiful faces in Mumbai,
Dr. Madhuri Agarwal is the Medical Director & CEO of Yavana Aesthetics Clinic. She has been catering to a wide gamut of people from diverse backgrounds including top names from the television & fashion fraternity, CEOs, entrepreneurs, and housewives.
She was always inclined towards specializing in a business of her own. From a very young age, she was drawn towards the science of aesthetics and thus began her journey with an MBBS from Mumbai University after which she pursued and completed her MD in dermatology from Mumbai University
In 16yrs of her journey in YAVANA, she has transcended from being a dermatologist and an aesthetic surgeon to a true Beauty Conjurer. That’s how at YAVANA, she delivers “The best in beauty”
www.yavana.in
Aruna Das
After 7 successful years, working with Deloitte and Accenture, Aruna chose to start her entrepreneurial journey with Catalyst Image Consulting, with a mission to help individuals and organizations realize their true potential. The industry was new then and not many had heard of it. Starting with corporate training for image and soft skills-related topics, she has grown over the years and added NLP and Life Coaching to her expertise. She has contributed immensely towards her fraternity by mentoring newcomers in the industry and also training at her alma meter for well over 6 years. Being in the industry for over a decade, she has touched 20,000+ lives through her training workshops for corporate and educational institutes. Her individual consulting is focused on senior leadership (CXOs), celebrities, and politicians. She has also worked with school and college kids. Aruna is also a recipient of various Leadership and Entrepreneurial awards. She is a self-made professional, fighting against all odds. What sets her apart is a positive attitude, ability to engage with people across age groups, diverse socio-economic backgrounds, and bring about tangible change.
Pooja Sanwal
A wife and mother is also cake artist. She was a teacher at “The Millenium school” for 7 long years. Then for family reasons she had to leave her job. During her pregnancy, she lost her mother, and with no mother figure at that crucial time..neither mother-in-law. She had to start her motherhood journey alone but Her husband being her best friend and a strong pillar supported her throughout her journey. With her husband’s support, she started her venture as a Cake Artist in 2019.
And besides being a Cake Artist, she also helps her husband in his event planning and banquet management business.
https://instagram.com/sweet_temptations_cake_studio?utm_medium=copy_link
Mrs. Purrna Kraleti
Purrna Kraleti is a Multi-Faceted Woman, a warm and vivacious woman who takes a primary interest in Mental Health and Wellbeing. Post pandemic the world needs more healing and more nonjudging listening spaces. So, she believes that the inner canvas is something that needs to be continually upgraded and worked upon.
She is also a Masters in Psychology, a Cognitive behavior Therapist, NLP Practitioner, Tarot Card Reader, and Yoga Prana Vidya Certified Instructor and Therapist, she believes in the philosophy” Happy Mind, Happy Life”
She has presented a paper on “Efficacy of Planetary Peace Meditation on Academic performance in school children” published in IJPE (Indian Journal of Psychology and education) VOL.10, no 2, July 2020.
Another Research article of hers “A Case Study of Treatment of Nephrotic Syndrome Using Yoga Prana Vidya (YPV) Integrated Holistic System as Complementary Medicine January 2021” was published in the International Journal of Medical Science and Health Research.
