Comfort-engineered heels brand Nuvah, founded by Avni Jain in October 2025, has raised ₹4 crore in a pre-seed angel round backed by Amit Jain, Shantanu Deshpande and Ishendra Agarwal to fund R&D and customer acquisition.
Delhi-based Protein Pantry, co-founded by Disha Bhattacharya and Prashanth Bhushan, has raised ₹9 crore in a seed round led by Sharrp Ventures to set up manufacturing for its clean-label, high-protein frozen foods.
European telecoms group United Group has published its 2025 Sustainability Report, reaffirming its target to source 100% renewable electricity by 2027 and reach net-zero emissions by 2040, while reporting 42% female representation at group leadership level.
Founder Smita Choudhary grew up watching boys and girls raised to very different expectations in rural Uttar Pradesh. Today, her organisation, Enlightened India Foundation, works to give girls in rural Himachal Pradesh the tools to become leaders in their own communities.
Evvy, a precision-medicine platform for women's health, has raised $40 million in Series B funding led by Catalio Capital Management, with a broad syndicate of femtech-focused investors joining the round.
UK-based Indian-origin nurse Agimol Pradeep has won the $250,000 Aster Guardians Global Nursing Award 2026 for her pioneering work in organ transplantation and stem-cell donation advocacy among Asian communities.
Evvy, a precision-medicine platform for women's health, has raised $40 million in Series B funding led by Catalio Capital Management, with a broad syndicate of femtech-focused investors joining the round.
UK-based Indian-origin nurse Agimol Pradeep has won the $250,000 Aster Guardians Global Nursing Award 2026 for her pioneering work in organ transplantation and stem-cell donation advocacy among Asian communities.
SCORE NEMA hosted its 2026 Women's Business Summit on September 16 in Massachusetts, bringing together business leaders, mentors and partners focused on supporting women entrepreneurs.
The PIEDS Womenpreneur for Bharat 4.0 programme, run by BITS Pilani in association with the Aditya Birla Capital Foundation, is offering up to Rs 15 lakh in equity funding to women-led startups from India's Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities, with applications closing September 16.