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.
Sony Pictures Entertainment India and Qube Cinema have partnered to release Spider-Man: Brand New Day across all 12 EPIQ screens nationwide — marking the first time a Hollywood studio film has been mastered in India's homegrown premium large format. With 170+ films already mastered for EPIQ and the new EPIQ Luxon HDR format pushing technological boundaries, Indian exhibition technology is finally getting its Hollywood moment.
A new kind of capital is flowing into India's ₹22,000-crore film industry. Specialised investment funds like Filmoney Global and CineNow are treating film intellectual property as a structured asset class — similar to IPL teams — bringing institutional discipline to an industry long starved of organised finance. With SPV-based models, slate financing, and even tokenisation, Indian cinema is entering a new era of financial sophistication.
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.
For years, asset servicing in India was the exclusive domain of large banks that also ran asset management and broking businesses. Dovetail Capital offered something different: an independent, technology-first partner with no competing agenda. Now, ₹100 crore in fresh capital and a marquee investor validate what its founders believed in 2017.
India had fewer than 60,000 GPUs deployed when Neysa raised $1.2 billion in February 2026. The country needs 2 million to realise its AI ambition — a 30x increase that requires sovereign infrastructure, not just hyperscaler access. Sharad Sanghi built Netmagic, sold it, and came back to build the compute layer India needs. Blackstone holds a majority stake.
Industrial air conditioning is energy-guzzling and carbon-heavy. Albatross Energetics is attacking the problem at its source, pulling moisture from the air before it needs cooling. With $1.05 million in fresh funding, the Mumbai startup is ready to scale its quiet revolution.
Four engineers at Asian Paints kept setting up warehouses for their employer and noticing the same gap: no Indian company was building the automation technology that global warehouses needed. In 2016, they quit and built one.
Flipkart paid $700 million to 19,000 employees through ESOPs in 2023 — India's single largest ESOP wealth creation event. India is now the world's third-largest startup ecosystem. 77% of Indian startups offer equity compensation. Vestd acquired Trica to be the platform that manages all of it.