Women Start Up

Of the over 8,000 women-led startups, 2,316 have received funding while about 6,000 are unfunded. Women tech entrepreneurs have cornered 14.8% share of the overall tech funding pie at $23 billion

Women remain heavily under-represented at the top echelons in high-growth private businesses in the region, with only 848 of nearly 15,000 firms across the region led or founded by a woman

Women are also being involved in honey production, making solar energy equipment, online marketing, and training to make digital videos

Traders should handhold and encourage women startups to set up businesses to help them enter the mainstream of trade and commerce, Union Minister Smriti Irani has said.

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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

Since female-led start-ups face tougher funding prospects than male-led start-ups, fewer women enter the tech entrepreneur pipeline