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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-ZW link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><img width=848 height=288 id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D5E528.C8F61280"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:middle'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:whitesmoke'>Image credit: Entrepreneur India<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#212121'>The transformation of the internet has been such that it has not just brought the world closer but also abridged the blockades to be an entrepreneur. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;box-sizing: inherit;margin:1rem 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#212121'>One demographic made the best of this opportunity and that are women. The dawn of e-commerce dais has opened flood gates for women entrepreneurs who have laid the foundation of their ventures, starting things from scratch and making it big. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;box-sizing: inherit;margin:1rem 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#212121'>So it's time to salute these entrepreneurs and brings their inspiring stories. Entrepreneur India brings you the story of five businesswomen who have made their dream a reality. <o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#141414'>Pinky Maheshwari - Surprise Someone</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#141414;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><img width=1000 height=666 id="Picture_x0020_5" src="cid:image004.jpg@01D5F754.7469C520" alt="Pinky Maheshwari - Surprise Someone"></span><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:whitesmoke'>Image credit: Entrepreneur India<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;box-sizing: inherit;margin:1rem 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#212121'>An executive at Ogilvy, taking care of Planning and strategy Pinky Maheshwari somewhere always had a soul of an entrepreneur. In 2015, she started <i>Surprise Someone</i> when her child innocently asked, "If wasting paper is wasting trees, why not make paper out of something apart from trees?"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;box-sizing: inherit;margin:1rem 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#212121'>That innocent question embarked her on the journey of founding <i>Surprise Someone</i>. As an environmentalist's daughter, she believes that all paper products, post their use, end up in the waste bin and so why throw it away when you can recycle? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;box-sizing: inherit;margin:1rem 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#212121'>"Keeping this in mind, I and my team have created over 1000 products infused with seeds and cotton rags so that you don't trash the items to waste but instead grow it out in your backyard in a pot of soil. While this was just the start, we joined Amazon India and observed over 10X growth, today. Today my workforce consists of over 7 full time and 9 part-time employees. We also work with close to 50 freelancers on project to project basis. We have completed 1300 days in the industry and she plans to expand her product portfolio to 1300 products," explains Maheshwari. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><h2 style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#141414'>Jyoti Pahadsingh - greenBUG</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#141414;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><img width=1000 height=1509 id="Picture_x0020_6" src="cid:image005.jpg@01D5F754.7469C520" alt="Jyoti Pahadsingh - greenBUG"></span><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:whitesmoke'>Image credit: Entrepreneur India<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;box-sizing: inherit;margin:1rem 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#212121'>Bangalore based Jyoti Pahadsingh and her partner Arun Balachandran started greenBUG in 2015 to find an alternative to use plastic garbage bags at homes. Back then, the concept of eco-friendly bags was still at a budding stage. However, the couple understood the need for a durable, eco-friendly option to dispose of waste.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;box-sizing: inherit;margin:1rem 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#212121'>They created up cycled, biodegradable dustbin liners made of newspaper and all-purpose flour. To contribute more to society both even trained underprivileged women in the manufacturing process of the product thus empowering them to have a better livelihood. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;box-sizing: inherit;margin:1rem 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#212121'>"Over 4 years, we have trained nearly 400 women to manufacture these products. What started as a pet project has changed and grown massively, servicing states across the country. With a floating workforce policy, we work with at least 15 other women daily making the world greener one step at a time. We went on e-commerce, in 2017 and since then have witnessed a 3X increase in the volume of orders and sales," shares Pahadsingh.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><h2 style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#141414'>Vijaya Rajan - Sirimiri</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#141414;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><img width=1000 height=1501 id="Picture_x0020_7" src="cid:image006.jpg@01D5F754.7469C520" alt="Vijaya Rajan - Sirimiri"></span><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:whitesmoke'>Image credit: Entrepreneur India<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;box-sizing: inherit;margin:1rem 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#212121'>After failing to find a brand that offered nutritious snacks, devoid of preservatives and artificial components, Vijaya Rajan founded Sirimiri in 2017. The quest started when Vijaya’s husband started undergoing intense training to swim the English Channel which required him to consume nutritious snacks to keep his energy levels up. She spent close to three-four months actively creating a nutrition snack for him. >From keeping a tab on ingredients that would go into the composition and nutrition values, she worked on every bit of it. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;box-sizing: inherit;margin:1rem 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#212121'>"By the last quarter of 2017, I had finalized the variants and types of products she would sell and joined e-commerce to sell SIRIMIRI products and has witnessed 20x growth since then. I work with 16 other people striving to create various nutritional alternatives to snacks," said Rajan. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;box-sizing: inherit;margin:1rem 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#212121'>The success and scope for growth had such an impact on Vijaya’s husband that he decided to quit his high-paying job with British Telecom and joined her in running the business. He now actively looks after various business and operational aspects of the brand, shared Rajan. <o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#141414'>Ruchika Gupta - Gulab Foods</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#141414;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><img width=1000 height=730 id="Picture_x0020_8" src="cid:image007.jpg@01D5F754.7469C520" alt="Ruchika Gupta - Gulab Foods"></span><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:whitesmoke'>Image credit: Entrepreneur India<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;box-sizing: inherit;margin:1rem 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#212121'>Gulab Foods, is a brand, by Gulab Group, which has been a market leader in the edible oil industry for over 25 years. After having made a mark, Ruchika Gupta got ready to explore the world of ‘ready to eat’ snacks. She was working as an executive in the entertainment events industry; she left her job to join Gulab Foods with a simple vision to scale up the company. Along with her team, she worked her and brought the products under an organized structure with licenses, lab reports and factory setups. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;box-sizing: inherit;margin:1rem 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#212121'>"In 2017, we made our debut on the e-commerce site. Since then our workforce has increased to over 30 people and has witnessed 20 per cent growth in sales through e-commerce marketplace, this year I am expecting a 5x growth," said Gupta.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;box-sizing: inherit;margin:1rem 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#212121'>She sources her raw material from across the country and the demand for the products has made her 'ready to eat' product be delivered to doorsteps in Chennai, Bangalore, Jaipur, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kerala, Raipur, and Gujarat.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#141414'>Nilanjana Das- PaperWings</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#141414;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><img width=1000 height=918 id="Picture_x0020_9" src="cid:image008.jpg@01D5F754.7469C520" alt="Nilanjana Das- PaperWings"></span><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:whitesmoke'>Image credit: Entrepreneur India<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;box-sizing: inherit;margin:1rem 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#212121'>With a mission to create a rural livelihood for women, Nilanjana Das began Paper Wings back in 2012. She would visit various villages and saw there was no scope of livelihood for women to fulfill their basic requirements of education, health or other requirements. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;box-sizing: inherit;margin:1rem 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#212121'>After witnessing this, Nilanjan left her job and started Paper Wings. Her visits with corporates to raise funds for training these women made her realize the amount of paper wastage produced by them daily which was not being handled properly. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;box-sizing: inherit;margin:1rem 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#212121'>“I thought can we take this waste paper and create a model where women can be empowered? At the outset, I started the Paper Wings with only five women and two products. 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