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How Google, Sequoia are supporting growth plans of women-led startups

A slew of accelerator programmes are reaching out to a segment that has been attracting a tiny share of the funds raised by the entire Indian startup ecosystem

Over Rs 30,160 cr sanctioned under 'Stand Up India' scheme in six years

The 'Stand Up India' scheme was launched in April 2016 to promote entrepreneurship among Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and women entrepreneurs

There is an unconscious bias in many industries, companies: Katrina Fotovat

Katrina Fotovat is looking to help support women entrepreneurs and women employees to help better shape their own and their community's economic future

Include women entrepreneurs as stakeholders in consultations on FTA: ICRIER

Economic think tank ICRIER has suggested the government to include targeted measures in the forthcoming foreign trade policy to boost women's participation in global commerce

Women's Day: Meet three entrepreneurs on a mission to empower women at work

International Women's Day: We spoke to three women whose enterprises have inculcated a strong sense of responsibility that helps their women staff get fair pay and an equitable working environment

Women's investible wealth grows more than that of men, shows data

When it comes to Asia (excluding Japan), women's investible wealth is expected to grow at a CAGR of 8.8 per cent to $7.3 trillion by 2025 from $4.8 trillion in 2020

Meesho reaches milestone of 9 mn women entrepreneurs on its platform

With more than 60% of them coming from Tier-3-plus markets like Dimapur, Faizabad and Haldwani, Meesho said it is becoming the preferred e-commerce destination for the next billion users in India

Kalaari Capital firm CXXO announces $10 mn seed fund for women founders

Between January 2018 and June 2020, startups led by women founder-CEOs received only 1.43 per cent of the total capital raised in India

India needs more women finance professionals

In the new economy, home is also a workspace. Because a household is a microcosm of an economy, women have had the training ground to build intuitive understanding of saving, investing and liquidity

Creative minds that rode global brands to build businesses amid Covid

E-commerce giants Etsy and Amazon have been very supportive of these entrepreneurs, who sell anything from jewellery made from concrete, to maternity gowns, to premium decals for tiles and walls

Indian-American businesswoman attends round table with US VP Kamala Harris

An Indian-American businesswoman, who imports goods and supports widowed women in India, has participated in a round table with Kamala Harris and asked the VP to back a global plastic policy

Will support 1 million women entrepreneurs in rural India: Sundar Pichai

The Alphabet CEO said empowering women entrepreneurs could create hundreds of millions of jobs, but when it comes to accessing opportunity, deep inequalities persist for women

Sundar Pichai pledges $25 million to empower women in India and globally

In a bid to support the economic empowerment of women in India, Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Monday announced $25 million in grants to non-profits and social enterprises in India and around the world

Google partners with Sheroes to support 500 rural women entrepreneurs

Last year, the tech major had started a small pilot for an accelerator programme for 10 women entrepreneurs in rural India across its Internet Saathi network

Covid impact: Women workforce disappearing, most affected in urban India

Women entrepreneurs are struggling to survive, women employed as domestic help in cities, at construction sites and in call centres, and in handicraft and retail units, have lost jobs

Covid impact: Women-founded tech startups see funding drop 24% in H1FY20

Amid Covid-19, funding for women-founded startups in India fell 24 per cent to $280 million in the first half of this year, compared to $369 million in the same period last year, said a new report

Alibaba Group's 'most influential woman' to get $5 bn richer on Ant IPO

The co-founder of the e-commerce giant rarely speaks in public and is little known outside of China, but over the past two decades she's played a key role guiding Jack Ma's empire

India's women entrepreneurs quickly changed business for survival: Survey

Women-owned businesses saw a sharp decline in revenue: 73 per cent reported being negatively impacted by the pandemic, and almost 20 per cent were nearly wiped out

Housework burden just got heavier for women entrepreneurs in pandemic

Domestic responsibilities emerged second only to weak demand as major obstacle to running a business: Report

Policymakers discuss ways to address gender gap in STI Policy 2020

Several issues in terms of the low institutional mechanism to nurture women innovators, age-barrier issues, leaky pipeline, funding for women-led start-ups, leadership, gender bias were deliberated up