Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women has opened applications for established women entrepreneurs in India, offering a fully funded executive education programme delivered through IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore and IIM Lucknow.
Self-help groups under Odisha's Mission Shakti programme have stitched 60 lakh national flags for the Har Ghar Tiranga 2026 campaign, creating livelihood opportunities for over 16,000 women.
Manipal Health Enterprises has signed a Business Transfer Agreement to acquire Kinder Women's Hospital in Bengaluru, expanding its footprint in maternal and women's healthcare.
Fintech lender Progcap has launched ProgShakti, an initiative offering collateral-free loans of up to ₹10 lakh to women who are certified as genuine owner-operators of their businesses, without requiring a male co-applicant.
Emma Grede grew up in a working-class single-parent household in East London and, without a completed fashion degree, built Good American and co-founded Skims into billion-dollar brands, becoming one of the wealthiest self-made women in America.
Fidji Simo built Facebook's advertising engine, took Instacart public, and now leads OpenAI's Applications division, translating the world's most closely watched AI research into products used by hundreds of millions of people.
Mary Barra began her career inspecting fenders on GM's factory floor and rose to become the first woman ever to lead a global automaker, steering the century-old company through its most consequential transformation since the assembly line.
Dr. Lisa Su arrived in America at age three and rose through MIT and the toughest labs in semiconductors to lead one of the greatest corporate turnarounds in technology history, transforming AMD into a central force in the global AI infrastructure race.
Jane Fraser became the first woman ever to run a major Wall Street bank when she took the helm of Citigroup in 2021. Four years on, her methodical turnaround of one of the world's largest financial institutions has turned early skepticism into genuine admiration.
New research shows a quarter of women plan to start a business in 2026, and more than half are considering it — yet women-founded companies continue to capture only a sliver of global venture capital, exposing a persistent gap between ambition and access.