Page 5 - Women Entrepreneurs

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

UP to promote start-up ventures of women, transgender entrepreneurs

The state has created a Rs 1,000 crore start-up fund to be managed by Sidbi

Niti Aayog working to champion cause of women entrepreneurship: Kant

"We have seen instances of women leaders carrying the communities they work with along with them, helping them grow and develop as well," he said

Facebook, N/Core to empower women entrepreneurs with its CSR initiative

Facebook Pragati will award four grants of up to Rs 50 lakh for each non-profit to scale their work

Tinder pledges up to $1mn in free in-app ads for women entrepreneurs

The firm is inviting applications from companies where at least 50 per cent of the founding team are women or identify as women

More action than noise on Women's Day?

The PM's clarion call acted as a starter gun for various governmental agencies, galvanising them to action

Sheroes offers social commerce, credit; aims to become 100 mn women network

Founded in 2014 by entrepreneur Sairee Chahal, Sheroes network has become one of the largest employment generators for women in the country

A programme that gives women hands-on training to be entrepreneurs

In a bid to bridge gender diversity in the business world, an entrepreneurial programme for women is providing hands on training on the tricks of the trade, writes Sneha Bhattacharjee

At 52nd spot, India far behind US, China in parity for women entrepreneurs

India's rank remained unchanged from previous year at 52, significantly behind the United States (4th) and China (29th)