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AIC’s WE Sprint showcases 11 women-led startups

AIC’s WE Sprint showcases 11 women-led startups

Wednesday June 20, 2018 , 5 min Read

11 women entrepreneurs from across the country pitched their ideas to potential investors, mentors, and consultants at a two-day event in Jaipur, organised by Atal Incubation Centre (AIC).

The entrepreneurs at We Sprint programme

To aid and inspire budding entrepreneurs, the Atal Incubation Centre (AIC) at Banasthali Vidyapith in Rajasthan recently organised WE Sprint, an accelerator programme for startups looking for capital, mentoring, and structural resources to scale up. The incubation centre is supported by the Atal Innovation Mission and NITI Aayog.

The two-day event, held at Royal Orchid Hotel in Jaipur, saw 11 women entrepreneurs from across the country converge and pitch their ideas to potential investors, mentors, and consultants across different sectors.

Under the WE Sprint programme, startups will be provided support for further development of Minimum Viable Product (MVP), designing marketing strategies, prospective scale-up plans, getting funding support, and best mentors from the industry.

The women-led startups that pitched their ideas include:

LetsEndorse – Monika Shukla

Based in Bengaluru, LetsEndorse is a social venture and a digital ecosystem of over 300 powerful social innovations across the globe, over 700 grass-root implementation partners/NGOs, responsible corporations, local administration and socially-savvy individuals. Backed by Social Alpha (a Tata Trust initiative), Nasscom 10k startup, its vision is to aggregate the hugely fragmented social-development ecosystem through technology-enabled collaboration. As Co-founder, Monika brings with her a wealth of experience to power communities for the greater good.

LoomKatha – Arushi Chowdhury Khanna

Sturctured as a for-profit social enterprise, LoomKatha’s aim is to create small centres of excellent craftsmanship that produce beautiful and market-relevant products. It has a double bottomline approach, which means social impact is as important as financial profitability. It plans to set up three physical Smart Khadi centres over the next four years, impacting 20,000 households. Founder Arushi has been working towards the revival of indigenous textile traditions for the past eight years.

Miss Chhotee’s – Shradha Aggarwal

Miss Chhotee’s mission is to promote preservative-free living by making healthy snacks available to urban Indians. It’s a 100 percent natural, gourmet line of “Made-in-India” light foods and condiments. It appeals to the urban young working professional looking for a healthy on-the-go snack. Founder Shradha Agarwal worked with MTV, Discovery Channel, Indian Express, and NDTV before her passion for food led to apprentice at the Four Seasons Hotel and later her own kitchen with Miss Chhotee’s.

Robokart – Chaitali Shah

Robokart, based in Mumbai is the creator of the Robokart Learning Programmes (RLPs) with an aim to make the learning of science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEM) concepts a fun-filled and engaging experience. Co-founder Chaitali is an engineer who is enthusiastic about making robotics fun and interactive for children.

Silpakarman – Akshya Shree

The brand is aimed at bridging the gap between buyers looking for handcrafted products and rural artisans practising traditional crafts. The products, made from material like bamboo and water hyacinth, are promoted through international trade shows (B2B and B2C) and also sold domestically through its online store and Amazon. Akshya, the founder is passionate towards sustainable development of rural craftsmen and their holistic economic development.

StampIT – Jaya Nalabothula

This agritech company specialises in ICT and IoT solutions. It understands the technology need in agriculture and builds software products and solutions for agri businesses and farmers. Jaya has a farming background and is qualified in information technology. She is an expert in auditing healthcare and agriculture software products.

Swayambhu – Akansha Singh

This for-profit organisation aims to generate bio-energy by linking a community to Community Biogas Plant (CBP), which would use domestic/kitchen, livestock and farm waste on a mass scale to produce biogas, to generate electricity and other by-products like organic manure and bio-pesticides. It is also involved in rural waste management, empowerment and livelihood security. Akansha started Swayambhu with a desire to work in waste management and clean energy in rural areas.

PINQ – Manveen Kaur

The brand is focused on women-on-the-go for their daily hygiene needs. It distributes sanitary pads, panty liners, and pee-on-the-go products. In order to ease carrying these, it also packs each pad in individual biodegradable and eco-friendly pouches. Manveen, the Founder, started PINQ to give women access to premium imported cotton-feel sanitary pads and panty liners.

Suman Devgun – Salutem Ridegears Apparels

The startup manufactures driving safety apparel such as riding jackets, riding gloves, head safety products, etc with a vision to reduce road accidents and fatalities for two-wheeler users in India and beyond. Co-founder Suman Devgun looks after the administration and finance while her son, Bhavishya Devgun, is in charge of sales and marketing.

KhaDigi – Umang Sridhar

KhaDigi envisions promoting and blending the concept of khadi, which is hand spun and hand woven in modern styles. Women in rural areas are identified, trained as spinners, and charkhas are provided to them to begin khadi weaving. Umang’s passion to work for women’s development, especially in rural areas, made her start KhaDigi in her college days itself.

Nysa Health – Pankhuri Joshi

The company has developed a cloud backend mobile app that is delivered to healthcare providers and expectant mothers through partnerships with hospitals. It is a mobile-based platform for pregnancy in India based on analysis of user date, seamlessly connecting women, doctors, maternity centres and service providers. An unpleasant personal experience promoted her to work towards bridging the information and communication gap between new mothers and their care providers.

Abhishek Pareek - CEO, Atal Incubation Centre addressing the gathering.

(Look out for interesting stories on these entrepreneurs in coming weeks at HerStory)