Women Entrepreneurs India – A number of businesses have begun and boomed, or begun and bombed in the year gone by – it’s definitely been an interesting year in the world of startups.

What’s good to see is that so many women Entrepreneurs in India have been just as enterprising as their male counterparts and made a name for themselves with their ventures.

When we talk about successful women entrepreneur’s name in Indian Startups, there are few names which are very famous but there are many other inspiring entrepreneurs who are running successful organisations.

Sharing a list of Female Entrepreneurs who are Inspiring startup Community

( not in any specific order, List is not complete yet but we are adding new names every week ).

1. Padmaja Ruparel

Company: Indian Angel Network
Age: 45
Education: BA Hons, Loreto House
Prior Work Experience: Xansa India

Indian Angel Network is India’s first angel investor network. They are going global by partnering with Inventus Capital Partners to invest in two US-based start-ups. IAN, which has over 350 members globally, counts prominent angel investors such as Hero Cycles managing director Sunil Munjal, HCL co-founder Ajai Chowdhry and Sanjeev Bikhchandani, co-founder and chief executive of publicly-listed internet company Info Edge, in its network.

2. Falguni Nayar 

Company: Nykaa.com
Age: 45
Education: IIM Ahmedabad
Prior Work Experience: Temasek, Kotak,

Nykaa.com is the entrepreneurial dream of Falguni Nayar, the former MD Of Kotak Mahindra Capital Company. Recently TVS Capital invested about Rs.25 crore and they have also got Rs.60-crore Series C fundraising are a clutch of investors, including high net-worth individuals, non-resident Indians (NRIs) and family offices.

3. Ankita Vashistha

Company: Saha Fund
Age: 34
Education: Masters in Finance, Cranfield School of Management, UK
Prior Work Experience: Aureos Capital

Ankita Vashistha launched Saha Fund, a venture capital fund for women centric businesses that is run by women. The Saha Fund, India’s first Securities and Exchange Board of India-approved venture capital fund focused on women entrepreneurs, would have a corpus of Rs 100 crore. It would invest in companies run by women entrepreneurs as founders or senior management. The fund has investments from Mohandas Pai and Kiran Mazumdar Shaw.

4. Pankhuri Shrivastava

Company: Grabhouse
Age: 25
Education: BE Computer Science, Rajiv Gandhi Technolohgy University
Prior Work Experience: Teach For India

Grabhouse is a broker-free website that helps people finding apartments, sharing rooms and PG’s on rent. Grabhouse raised $2.5 million from Kalaari Capital and Sequoia Capital. The startup now has more than 1.5 lakh visitors a day.

5. Ankita Sheth

Company: Vista Rooms
Age: 32
Education: MET
Prior Work Experience: OYO Rooms, Stanton Chase, Boston Analytics

Ankita Sheth is Co-Founder for Vista Rooms, one of India’s fastest growing online aggregators for budget hotels. She is also the only women entrepreneur in this highly male dominated segment. Vista Rooms have scaled 700 plus properties in 70 plus locations across India in under six months of their inception. They also command the largest inventory for tier II and tier III locations in India. An avid traveller and an active social activist, amongst other causes, Ankita has also been part of Anna Hazare’s campaigns.

6. Shivani Siroya

Company: Inventure
Age: 30
Education: Columbia University
Prior Work Experience:  Healthnet

InVenture is a mobile technology and data science company that is flipping the traditional credit scoring model by putting power into the hands of newly empowered consumers in emerging markets.They have raised $10 million series A round to launch into additional markets in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.

7. Vani Kola

Company: Kalaari Capital
Age: 38
Prior Work Experience: Arizona State University
Work: Certus Software, Rightworks

Kalaari Capital, a venture capital firm, has invested in more than 25 start ups including Snapdeal, Zivame and Urbanladder. Kalaari Capital has recently launched its third $290M India fund.

8. Swati Bhargava

Company: Cashkaro.com
Age: 30
Education: London School Of Economics
Prior Work Experience: Goldman Sachs
Cashkaro.com is touted to be India’s largest & fastest growing Cashback & Coupons site. Cashkaro.com is planning its foray into new countries after raising a $3.8 million Series A from Kalaari Capital.

9. Mamta Chhikara

Company: Bizztor 
Age: 25
Education: MDU Rohtak
Prior Work Experience: Bizztor

Connecting Indian Entrepreneurs, startups & SMEs, Indianbizparty is a platform for Latest startup stories, Learning & Networking in Indian Startup eco system.

10. Pranshu Bhandari

Company: Culture Alley
Age: 26
Education: Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies
Work: Wipro

The startup launched its English language learning application in October 2014. In eight months the English app has seen 3 million installs on Android from India. They have recently raised $6 million from Tiger Global and Kae Capital.

11. Richa Kar

Company: Zivame
Age: 30
Education: Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies
Prior Work Experience: SAP, Spencer’s Retail Ltd.

Zivame is probably the first in the online lingerie space in India and has played a role in educating women across the country about intimate wear and shaping consumer behaviour. It has recently raised a Series C round of Rs 250 crore from Zodius Technology Fund and Khazanah Nasional Berhad.

12. Shradha Sharma

Company: Yourstory
Age: 30
Prior Work Experience: MICA
Work: CNBC TV18, The Times Of India

YourStory is a portal publishing original stories of entrepreneurs. They have received their first round of funding from marquee investors, Kalaari Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, T V Mohandas Pai and Ratan Tata.

13. Upasana Taku

Company: Mobikwik
Age: N/A
Education: Stanford University
Prior Work Experience: Paypal, Zaakpay, 2020 Social

MobiKwik is India’s fastest growing mobile wallet trusted by 25 Million users & 50,000 merchants. With 17 M-wallet users, MobiKwik plans to raise $100 M.

14. Meena Ganesh

Company: Growth Story
Age: 40
Education: IIM Calcutta
Prior Work Experience: Microsoft India, Tesco

Meena and Ganesh, the founder couple of venture building platform GrowthStory, built and sold four companies over two decades. Growth Story has a corpus of approximately Rs 200 crore. And it already has a portfolio of five e-commerce ventures — BigBasket, BlueStone, Delyver, MustSeeIndia, and BookAdda.

15. Rashmi Daga

Company: Freshmenu
Age: 30
Education: IIM Ahmedabad
Prior Work Experience: Afday.com

Fresh Menu is a company that offers ready-to-eat/heat and serve meal plans. The Bangalore-based Internet-first restaurant, FreshMenu, part of serial entrepreneur K Ganesh’s startup factory GrowthStory, is all set to raise INR 31 Cr in the first round of funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners.

16. Shuchi Mukherjee

Company: LimeRoad
Age: 42
Education: London School Of Economics
Previous Work Experience: Gumtree, an eBay Inc Company, Skype, eBay Inc

Ask any woman today who binges on online shopping and this LimeRoad will definitely pop up. Founder Shuchi Mukherjee comes from a family with no business background and has managed to give biggies like Flipkart and Snapdeal tough competition. A post grad from London School of Economics, Shuchi has worked with companies like eBay, Skype and Gumtree.

17. Nidhi Agarwal

Company: Kaaryah
Age: 30
Education: MBA from Kellogg School of Management
Prior Work Experience: Export houses in Delhi

Kaaryah is a brand of western formal wear for Indian women focused on providing the best possible fit with its 18 sizes. The brand focuses on bridging the gap between western formals and the Indian silhouette. Recently Ratan Tata has picked up a minor stake in Kaaryah.