International women's day: EJ Biz celebrates women creating a sensation in the startup world.
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- Divya Gokulnath: Co-founder of India's most valued startups and one of the world’s leading edtech companies, BYJUs. Divya turned her passion for teaching into a multi-billion startup. A biotech engineer by profession, Divya co-founded BYJU’s Classes in 2007 alongside her husband Byju Raveendran which subsequently became BYJU’s in November 2011.
- Priyanka Gill: Adding the glam factor, Priyanka envisioned the significance of content-to-commerce a few years ago when she started POPxo went on to found Plixxo in 2017. Co-founded by Priyanka Gill, the Good Glamm Group last year in November, became a unicorn as it raised $150 million. The POPxo Makeup Collection by MyGlamm also launched this year with a collection featuring 13 specially curated ‘all-in-one’ makeup kits at affordable prices.
- Upasana Taku : MobiKwik’s co-founder and COO Upasana Taku has led the way for women entrepreneurs in the fintech space.Mobile wallet Mobikwik, which is now a buy-now-pay-later platform was founded by Stanford alum Taku along with her husband Bipin Preet Singh. Upasana, retreated to India in 2008 to set up a new venture named Zaakpay and from then dedicated her vision in being at the forefront of the Fintech Revolution in India.
- Ghazal Alagh, Co-founder, Mamaearth: Ghazal is one half of husband-wife duo Varun and Ghazal Alagh, who run new-age skincare and bodycare brand Mamaearth. Ghazal was also recently a shark/investor on the much-memed and talked-about entrepreneurship show Shark Tank India. Ghazal is known for testing each new Mamaearth product on her before it ships to the public, to check for side effects, etc.
- Ruchi Kalra Co-founder - OfBusiness: Kalra, an alumnus of IIT-Delhi and the Indian School of Business runs the financing business at OfBusiness, a B2B commerce and lending platform currently valued at $5 billion and looking to go for an IPO this year. She was a partner at management consulting giant McKinsey before co-foundin g OfBusiness with husband Asish Mohapatra and others. Kalra who has the crown of having uniocorn says "One should definitely exercise the option to learn anew and tell oneself once in a while ...Let’s go exploring”