Every bank in India has turned down a woman entrepreneur because she didn't have property to pledge. Delhi just changed that — with the government stepping in as guarantor for loans up to ₹10 crore.
For years, women were seen primarily as customers of financial services. Today, they are increasingly becoming the architects of India's financial future. Across lending, digital banking, wealth management, and financial education, women founders are building fintech companies that are changing how millions of Indians interact with money.
For generations, property in India meant a man's name on the deed. PMAY-U 2.0 is changing that — one home, one woman, one title deed at a time.
No venture capital. No angel investors. Just Indian women entrepreneurs walking through a government portal and winning ₹28,000 crore in contracts. That's not a statistic — that's a movement.
Girls-first hackathons are creating pathways into technology by combining coding, mentorship and entrepreneurship, helping young women build confidence and innovation skills early.
en years ago, Startup India was a speech. Today it's a data point that should make every Indian proud — nearly half of all recognised startups in the country have a woman leading the way.
Shoba Viswanathan, Indiaspora's EVP and Chief Engagement Officer, is the architect of the most ambitious diaspora engagement programme in Indian history. A profile of the woman building the institutional infrastructure that could transform 35 million Global Indians from a demographic statistic into a coordinated force for India's development.
India's unicorn count stands at 127 as of the latest Tracxn data. 680,000 total startups, $618 billion in cumulative funding, 23,472 women-founded companies — the complete state-of-the-nation data picture for India's startup ecosystem on June 12, 2026.
Mamaearth's IPO journey, subsequent stock correction, and the public scrutiny it brought placed Ghazal Alagh at the forefront of a critical conversation about founder integrity and product authenticity. Her response to that scrutiny has made her the most important voice in Indian consumer brand building.
With eight days until the WEI Awards 2026 in Chennai on June 20, Women Entrepreneurs India's third Angel investor has just been onboarded. A pre-event feature on the movement, the awardees, and why this year's ceremony is the most consequential in the organisation's history.