Building businesses and scaling them up, involves having a vision and working towards it with planned goals in sight. A person’s gender has nothing to do with it. And young millennial women entrepreneurs are proving just that.
With many young women taking the entrepreneurial route, lets take a look at five such examples of young businesswomen, who in their 20s, are running some fabulous startups.
1. Akanksha Savanal
Akanksha Savanal worked as a celebrity stylist to the likes Ranveer Singh and Parineeti Chopra. However, after styling them for two years, Akanksha felt herself creatively unsatisfied and hence decided to start her own venture. She felt a large market gap for fashion options for curvy women. Thus, was born ‘A Curve Story’, as she felt there was a good business opportunity, given the lack of stylish and comfortable clothes for women in all sizes. The 27-year old as already raised a round of funding for her venture and plans to create a good offline and online presence.
2. Smriti Tomar
Young Smriti was always fascinated while making equity investments via her father’s Demat account. And so, once she turned 18, she turned to investing on her own. Her love for finance transcended all, and despite graduating from NIT Bhopal, she worked with a part-time broker during an exchange program, helping 25 Korean investors invest in Asia. Realizing difficulties for foreign investors investing in Asia, she decided to start InvestoAsia in 2019. Now all of 26, Smriti is steering InvestoAsia into the unicorn club.
3. Tanya Bakshi
Tanya Bakshi started volunteering at the young age of 16. A chance meeting with a seven-year-old girl, who questioned her about her mental health condition, made her think about doing something for them, thereby starting ‘Youniverse’, an organization promising holistic education and growth techniques. It has touched the lives of 1200 students with their online and offline programs, propagating positive mental health and well-being.
4. Shubhi Jain
Talk about juggling three jobs with ease! What you get is Shubhi Jain. A traffic warden in Indore by night and radio jockey by in the day, 24-year-old Shubhi started Maatiwala- a one-stop destination for all gardening needs. One can book gardeners online too and she has five of them on her team, all from her hometown in Madhya Pradesh. She always felt a special connection to plants and nature, and through Maatiwala, she is living her dream of doing what she always wanted to.
5. Anuva Kakkar
Anuva’s love for hot chocolate got her to start an affordable hot chocolate brand Tiggle at the age of 21. She started by selling the beverage outside a tube station at Gurgaon, and now has delivered over 2,00,000 cups of hot chocolate to over 14000 customers. She started Tiggle with just a five-liter jug, three litres of milk and everything to make hot chocolate. She is working towards bringing this premium beverage to the masses. And along with it, products that go well with hot chocolate like churros, marshmallows, cookies and biscuits are also in the pipeline.
