In the last decade, women entrepreneurship in India has witnessed a massive advancement, with many women joining the ranks of prominent startups. While innovators like Kiran Majumdar-Shaw remind us that nothing can stop them from pursuing their dreams, emerging unicorn…

After a successful launch of empoWer last year, earlier this September, Mumbai based Zone Startups India announced empoWer 2017 in partnership with Department of Science and Technology (Government of India), Social Alpha (an initiative by Tata Trusts), Microsoft, Amazon Launchpad,…

Pria Randolph, founder of Bitgram wrote a blog on scaling opportunities for startups. Bitgram is part of empoWer 2017’s cohort. Read on to know more. One fine Friday morning in Mumbai, sipping hot chocolate and listening to Delna…

1) About The Founder: Aardra Kannan Ambili is a Masters in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Georgia. She handles technology of the product. She has published papers on applied machine learning and natural language processing in international conferences on…

Zone Startups India’s flagship initiative, empoWer is in its 2nd year, as an accelerator program. Launched in April 2016, the 1st cohort of the program was a huge success, with 8 of the cohort members going on to raise funding…

Watch Shikha Uberoi, talk about how to enable smooth transition when it comes to changing careers. As a former sportsperson turned into an entrepreneur, she has a lot of insightful thoughts to share for budding entrepreneurs.

During the launch event of empoWer2017 in Mumbai, we asked a couple of questions to Sonali Sinha. Read more to know what her insights are about women entrepreneurs in India. Sonali believes that women entrepreneurs need to be a bit…

Revathi Roy is a social entrepreneur who has been working towards empowering urban poor women since 2007 whether be it by pioneering Asia’s first all-women taxi service, Forsche or recently founding India’s first all-women instant parcel delivery service, Hey Deedee.In…

In this candid chat with us, Naiyya talks about the challenges women entrepreneurs face, how at Babychakra she is trying to fill the gap and her advice to upcoming women entrepreneurs. Naiyya Saggi, Founder & CEO, Babychakra was a speaker…

Chetna Sinha, President, Mann Deshi Foundation was a speaker at #empoWer17 Mumbai Launch Conference, inspiring the audience with her learnings from starting up and scaling Vu technologies to a 500 Crore Company. In this candid chat with Hardik Vaidya, Devita…

We have entered the 21st century where change is part of our everyday lives. It’s not just the new emerging technologies, but also the changing mindset of our society that is helping us progress. It somehow feels like we are…

Mumbai-based technology startup accelerator Zone Startups India has selected 15 women entrepreneurs for its accelerator programme titled empoWer. Zone Startups India, a venture fund and accelerator housed at BSE,launched the 6-week accelerator programme – “empoWer” in April 2016, to support…

The empoWer Demo Day received huge media attention from many media houses for its successful Demo Day wherein Zone Startups India announced the winners for the takeaways of the empoWer program. Following is the excerpt from the Times Of India…

empoWer is India’s exclusive accelerator program for women entrepreneurs to support them in scaling their tech startups. In the first cohort,15 women entrepreneurs were selected from an application pool of 191, for a 6-week program comprising of mentoring, workshops, case…