
The One Moment That Changed Everything
How a software engineer's guilt over feeding her family restaurant food sparked a revolution in home-cooked meals—and empowered hundreds of women in the process

How a software engineer's guilt over feeding her family restaurant food sparked a revolution in home-cooked meals—and empowered hundreds of women in the process

She was a CA at 21 and an MBA from Duke at 24. She came back to India in 2007 to join her father's pharmaceutical company when it was struggling with debt. The 293x return she made on Emcure's 2024 IPO was not the story. The story is what she had to do between 2007 and that IPO to make it possible.

From the bustling halls of Seoul's Shilla Hotel to the emerging powerhouse of Vietnamese cinema, women are no longer just participants in the entertainment industry—they are architects of its future. As the 5th Women Entrepreneurs Week kicks off in South Korea with a focus on AI and femtech, and Vietnamese cinema surges to a 70% domestic market share under female leadership, a clear picture emerges: women are using technology not just to build businesses, but to redefine how stories are told, distributed, and experienced across the globe.

She held a University record at Cambridge. She ran Gumtree to the number one position in the UK. She came back to India at 39, during maternity leave, spotted a jewellery piece in a magazine she could not buy, and founded LimeRoad. Tiger Global backed it. V-Mart eventually acquired it for ₹31 crore.

Discover how Roshni Nadar Malhotra became India's richest woman after her father Shiv Nadar transferred 47% of HCL promoter stakes to her. Learn about her journey as HCLTech Chairperson, philanthropist, and conservationist leading one of India's largest IT empires.

She worked with rural women at SKS Microfinance and watched how access to capital changed their lives directly. That experience made her a believer in financial inclusion at scale.

Kavipriya Anandan, Harvard Business School alumna and founder of 19 DOGS, shares her powerful journey of loss, adversity, and rebuilding through love. Discover how love became her purpose and responsibility.

Theobroma stayed stuck at one store for six years. Kainaz and Tina could not raise investment for a decade. In 2014 they finally got a ₹5 crore business loan with a condition that one founder would remain CEO until it was repaid.

Before SUGAR, Vineeta and Kaushik failed twice. Before FAB Bag taught them what Indian women wanted, they built a fashion e-commerce company nobody funded and a consulting firm nobody hired. They bootstrapped SUGAR with personal savings and a loan from Vineeta's father. Their first product insight was that international makeup did not work on Indian skin in Indian weather. Everything they built followed from that one honest observation.

A 2024 study found that Indian men's feet have an average width-to-length ratio of 65%, and Indian women's feet 60% — wider than European and American averages. Most sportswear brands still use global sizing standards that do not account for this. Sachin Tendulkar, who spent 24 years playing in shoes not designed for Indian biomechanics, co-founded a brand specifically to fix it