Tag: Entrepreneur

Women lead this 21st century!

We,the women, are giving stiff competition and are present as a leading force in every profession these days. We have so many examples of so many women entrepreneurs in the world at the moment.

One such example of a strong,calm,hardworking,passionate and a visionary entrepreneur is Masumi Mewawala.

Masumi is a bachelor in commerce graduate from Mumbai. She passed her school and college with flying colours,making her parents proud at every step. She started out her career as a child actress. Lauded for her work,she had an outstanding grasp of the craft of acting at a very young age. She,then started featuring in a few gujrati plays. Again,she was appreciated a lot in them as well. Making her parents proud of her she then pursued her education thoroughly.

Even as a kid, she was a very clear headed girl. After which she took a couple of jobs such as that of a wedding planner,a dance choreographer,a volunteer at an NGO and a fashion designer in the end.

Her heart was swooned by the fashion industry! Started out as a mere gift to her mother, she had designed a saree for her on her birthday once. After that,there was no looking back ever. She had found her calling.

Today, she is at the helm of two big brands,running them solely by her sheer hard work and passion to deliver marvelously and receive applauding praises for her efforts by everybody.

Knowing nothing about the fashion industry, she was fairly new to the workings of it. She was clueless as to how everything is supposed to happen. From the production,marketing to the sale of the products.

With her sheer passion for the work and quick learning power she was able to get hands on knowledge about all stages of productions and operations of the fashion business. From getting to know about the fabrics,to the tailoring,designing garments,marketing,sale and customer services she learnt everything as she went on with her dream.

She started Pink Peacock Couture first which is a bridal couture boutique. After the success of the latter she started Emblaze which is an online E-Commerce portal to provide high fashion solutions at a very affordable price to the general public. They both were an instant hit! After facing the usual problems a budding business faces,very soon she was making profits and delivering quality products to her clients.

Giving into the scrutiny of the business she has also managed to make a lasting dent on the fashion business of India. Taking inspiration from her parents she firmly believes in the power of action and learning as one proceeds. She is a visionary and very ambitious for both of her fashion brands. She is able to spite her competitors and is giving a cut throat competition to them at every level as a brand and also as an entrepreneur.

Besides all these efforts she was also able to be a guide to her younger brother Bhargava Mewawala in helping him set up an E-supermarket portal with bbrrmm.com, an online marketplace for premium groceries and essential staples.

AIC-IIITH Foundation selects 10 Tech-based Social Enterprises focused on Sustainable Development Goals

10 August, Hyderabad: Atal Incubation Centre at International Institute of Information Technology (AIC-IIITH) has selected 10 startups for its flagship Akash incubation program for tech-based social enterprises working on Sustainable Development goals.

AIC-IIITH received 100 applications from 17 states, out of which 17 were selected for the final round. The process which began in December 2019 and went through multiple rounds, concluded in an online selection conference consisting of Viveck Verma, Entrepreneur, Strategic Advisor and Investor; Anup Puthan, TechExpert and Investor; Emmanuel V Murray Senior Advisor at Caspian Impact Investment Adviser and Rennis Joseph, Social Entrepreneur and Director at Ignis Career.

The selected startups will be supported through their entrepreneurial journey by business coaching, boot camps and workshops on various topics like finance, IP, marketing, etc. mentor and expert chats, peer learning sessions, as well as an opportunity to apply for seed funding.

AIC-IIITH is at present supporting diverse social enterprises from sectors like Edutech, Healthtech, Environment, etc. The 2nd cohort also consists of 10 startups from diverse fields all working to help India achieve SDGs by 2030.

Ramesh Loganathan, Director, AIC-IITH, congratulated the startups and said, “Being part of this incubation program is an excellent platform for social entrepreneurs to get tools to grow and become sustainable and thus multiply their social impact.”

The startups that are part of the 2nd cohort are:

Adva Enviro Solutions Pvt Ltd – Fighting water crisis in India through mass action approach using innovative water conservation techniques to make ground water-rich and promote people to conserve rainwater.

Transit – HelpTruck drivers facing problems of liquidity for costs like diesel, toll tax and food. Lot of time they get lynched. A lot of time parties don’t give payment to the drivers in time. Transit provides them with transit cards, which can help them solve all these problems.

SDG Healthcare Private Limited – Developing an AI/ML-based screening solution to prevent anaemia among the majority of the rural population of children, adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating mothers and males in the health care sector.

KOTUMB Digital Empowerment and Careers Pvt Ltd – A career enhancement, guidance and jobs/ entrepreneurship solution for the educated youth of tier 2 and tier 3 locations via an android mobile app.

Ecowrap – An end-to-end integrated waste management solution for the Hotel, Restaurant and Cafe (HORECA) sector that will address illegal dumping of waste into landfills causing pollution, wastage of precious resources and avoid zero monetization of waste.

Ayata Intelligence Private Limited – Indian Horticulture productivity is 250 % lower than the global average. Addressing it through IoT & AI-powered SaralKheti technology, which screens crops with stress management at 3 levels: Soil, Crop and Atmosphere.

Mayukh.ai – Creating loan availability options for those without any formal credit history via KarzSiddhi, an end to end solution to facilitate the loans from NBFCs (primarily) by ratifying the character, commitment and capacity of an individual artisan or semi-skilled person like electrician, mechanic, plumber, etc.

Digibeings – Making mental health treatment and diagnosis scalable, affordable and accessible via virtual human AI.

Jivandeep Health Services – India’s only end to end solution for organ transplant catering to the needs of patients from the initial diagnosis to rehabilitation and sustainability.

Kaiinos Education Services- Address the challenges in monitoring climate change using satellite data and the availability of public learning material to process and publish satellite data. And developing a participatory eLearning platform for the same.