Meet the IIT Alumni Women Entrepreneurs Who Are Setting New Records

As we all know "The Indian Institutes of Technology" (IITs) are known to give graduate's high-paying corporate jobs. But over the last few years they have something more to bring to the table, the institutes have got a new reputation of comming up with successful startup founders, who even become investors as well.

All this stated from convincing family members, investors, collaboriting with business ventures for funds. They stayed true to their ideas and choose to become entrepruners over their corporate jobs.

Let’s know these personalities in brief:

AnuMeena

AnuMeena, an alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, founded Agrowave in 2017 to help farmers of India - who contribute 13 percent of the country’s GDP - operate on a seamless supply chain through analytics, research, and technology.

She is from Manoli, Rajasthan, who always saw her grandfather struggle with logistics and pricing and to strengthen thier agriculture business, but didn'r worked out well. 

However, Agrowave changed the scene. Based in Gurugram, Agrowave procures fresh fruits and vegetables from farmers in different parts of the country like Panipat, Sonipat, Harpur, and Rajasthan and others, and from thier it directly distributes to businesses. Initallly the funding was done from mobile app and cloud solutions firm Daffodil Software within seven months of starting up.

Richa Singh 

Richa, the Co-founder of the platform and an alumnus of IIT-Guwahati, became aware of the problem for the first time when her hostel mate died by suicide under the pressure of placements. She discovered that mental health is ighly affected as in our socieety the taboo of getting a highly paid job is stiil there.

Her focus is to create healthy personal relationships, work-life balance, building self-confidence, and creating the ability to deal with different kinds of pressures.

Her initiative and talent even got recognized by Forbes magazine and there she was featured in its Asia edition of 30 under 30 achievers in the area of healthcare and science. 

Imagine such an huge achivement in that age!

Parul Gupta

Now comes Parul Gupta, she entered the promising world of edtech by co-founding Springboard (earlier known as SlideRule) in 2013.  The platform curates learning content on the internet to create a flexible alternate education system. Springboard focuses on a four-step roadmap that includes content discovery, curriculum sequencing, mentoring and assessment, and eventually connecting with employers.

Aarti Gill

Aarti is more inclined and facinated towards a healthy lifestyle which she thought of imposing in a business venture.And she did it as what she thought. She founded Fit Circle, a mobile application that provided nutrition suggestions and diet consultation in 2014, and OZiva, a plant-based organic nutritional product in 2016.

While her first startup did not workout well but she didn't giveup, OZiva is now aRs 50 crore brand that has grown seven times in just a year. It offers a range of products made from botanical extracts, plants, and whole food-based nutrition. It has benefits of Ayurveda and modern food science.

The startup claims to be the first nutrition brand where people can pick up a thier product from anywhere and even consult a human expert digitally.

An engineering graduate from IIT-Roorkee, worked with tech startups and corporate entities before pursuing an MBA at INSEAD, France, and Singapore campuses. 

Neha Singh

Neha Singh, along with her husband and Co-founder Abhishek Goyal started data analytics startup Tracxn in 2013. What started as a database of startups now hosts information of over half -a million companies across the world. Tracxn is widely regarded as a Bloomberg for startup research today, but this couple took time in understanding why they would leave high-paying corporate jobs to start up from scratch.

Neha completed her bachelor’s and master’s in computer science engineering from IIT-Bombay and pursued an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

These women have changed the game for women nationwide.