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Name: Dr Megha Phansalkar Business Name: Tisser Artisan Trust Location: Mumbai, India Establishment (Year): 2016 Profession/ Specialty: Handicrafts and Manufacturing Company Detail: Tisser Artisan Trust is an entrepreneurial venture, functioning as a tool for social upliftment of rural clusters of India. Restoring the dignity of work by skilling women in rural clusters and providing them job opportunities. The opportunities created aim at reviving the handicraft products inspired by the rich cultural heritage of India, each art community across geography with its unique offering. Taking forth the women and art in long strides of empowerment and exposure. They are selling handloom & handcrafted products, up till now designed over 1000 customized products; current catalogue of more than 2500 SKUs, 50 handloom fabrics, 20 forms of textile painting, 200 forms of handicrafts. There are various handmade product categories they cater to their valued customers. Currently, they are dealing in following broad categories: ● Clothing: Female/Male/Kids ● Home segment: Home linen/Décor/Artifact/Utility/Furniture/Room wise Items/Garden products ● Accessories: Personal/Home ● Gifting: Corporate/Personal/Home Their key customers are clients who wish to bring a little part of traditional India into their spaces. They reach out to their customers through their connection with Designers, Architects, and builders. Relations with the hospitality industry have helped us get in touch with the needs of hotels. They are working towards forming a bond with Decor companies that share similar ideals and have a requirement of innovative, artistic products that allow us to reach a wider customer base. Tisser tries to reach as many people as possible through our social media channels like Instagram, Facebook, Tisser Website, etc. Online portals like Amazon and Flipkart also contribute to reaching a wider audience. Personal connect and word-of-mouth also helps us to reach out to people. Unique Selling Proposition / Competitive Advantage: Their USPs and their Uniqueness : ● Innovative Designs ● Customization ● Brand Name ● Traceability ● Fusion of Art forms ● Social Messaging To ensure that the contemporary demands of the consumers are met, Tisser design team personally look into the products being developed by the rural artisans and weavers across India and then decide the best designs and quality control to attract not only local, but also international consumers. Tisser’s endeavor is to bring customers a choice of products – and lifestyle – that offers an alternative to the mass-produced, while creating sustainable lively- hoods in the rural sector. Challenges faced during the Journey: Rural India has always been rich in terms of its culture, be it arts, crafts, language, cuisine, or ethnicity. Indian arts and crafts are high-demand products in the global market, however there are critical gaps in the business ecosystem of popular arts and crafts. Creative artisans, especially women, have been devoid of opportunities to get up-skilled, the confidence to be entrepreneurs and running large scale collectives for economic empowerment. The key challenges remain limited enterprise capacity, lack of detailing, finishing and demand based creativity, packaging, branding, showcasing, investments and sustainability. In other words the old art of handloom & handicraft is being neglected due to lack of opportunities and innovations making the lives of Indian artists and weavers difficult. The community of artisans has become unorganized. Middlemen exploit the artisans’ skills which results in an imbalance of the income received by artisans and the value they add to manufacturing of products, where the former is much lower than the latter. Advice for Women Entrepreneurs: Dr Megha would like to advice all female entrepreurs to first, 'Never loose hope'. She also says to continue striving hard and work to towards your goals and keep struggling and overcome challenges, so that you can definitely succeed and achieve your goals

Name: Deepanshi Tiwari Business Name: Souranshi - Fashion and Lifestyle Magazine Location: Delhi, India Establishment (Year):2019 Profession/ Specialty: Advertisement and Marketing Company Detail: Souranshi is all about fashion and lifestyle. They target on people who targets brand and aspiring individuals and reach them with ambitious population with interest in fashion and lifestyle around the nation. Unique Selling Proposition / Competitive Advantage: Souranshi Magazine targets every small and large businesses. They circulate the magazine PAN India. They target on Architects, Interior Designers, Shoe Brands, Make-up Artist, FMCG Organic Brands, Skin Care Brands, and many more. They also include about fashion and trendy content which are really liked by their audience. Challenges faced during the Journey: They have started this business with zero investment, but with a vision to feature valuable brands and personalities to empower and inspire the thinking of our audience. And while going on in this journey till now many valuable brands have collaborated with them to help them achieve their vision. They have a community of more than 100 brands and 2.5Million of readership. Advice for Women Entrepreneurs: Deepanshi would like to advice all female entrepreneurs to be focused with your dreams. She says to always set a bigger goals and try to achieve them step by step. She wants us to be grounded and gain as much knowledge as you can. She also advices to always be Positive, and to be successful.

Name: Bhavana Satwani Business Name: Aura Interiors LLC Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates Establishment (Year): 2014 Profession/ Specialty: Interior Design and Fitout company Company Detail: Aura interiors is a turnkey fitout company specialized in commercial Interiors and has built more than 20 Restaurants, 50 offices, 2 gyms, 2 clinic's 3 Retail outlets. They provide an end to end solution right from designing to permissions to execution of all commercial spaces. They have their specialized and qualified team of project engineers, designers, carpenters, electrician, painters and a 3500 sqft joinery based in Dubai. Unique Selling Proposition / Competitive Advantage: The biggest challenge someone opening up a new venture in Dubai would be to save money on rentals which is huge. Aura have a record of completing 95% projects on time thus saving time and money for their clients. Challenges faced during the Journey: The eight year journey has been filled with enormous challenges and learnings. Right from when they have started to get the right team. Over the years they have improvised on the recruitment process that has helped to take the right decisions. We also believe in collaborations and therefore have developed strong partners that have been working with us from day one. Advice for Women Entrepreneurs: Bhavana Satwani would like to advise to choose a right mentor that really helps as taking the right decisions at the right time can save time and money both. She also advices to make sure to have the systems and process in place so that one can have this data collected. She says that it is more important to have a business plan, that can ensure to have goals, financial plans and risks in place.

Name: Anubha Singhai Business Name: PhysiQure Location: Bhopal, India Establishment (Year): 2020 Profession/ Specialty: Physiotherapist Company Detail: PhysiQure provides specialized Physiotherapy services through 6 Advanced Physiotherapy Clinics and also through Telehealth Sessions along with Home Physiotherapy Services. They also have 6 bedded Day care Physiotherapy Services with pick and drop facility available. Unique Selling Proposition / Competitive Advantage: Patient-centred, quality and result-oriented Physiotherapy Services that make it affordable and approachable for all is PhysiQure's USP. Challenges faced during the Journey: PhysiQure has faced certain challenges such as lack of a proper systematic set-up in Physiotherapy field, dependence on Doctor's referral to take Physiotherapy Services which reduced people's direct approachability. This made Anubha to establish 4 clinics at different locations to solve the problem of commutation to long distances. Tele health sessions have made the people all over to connect with them. Advice for Women Entrepreneurs: Anubha Singhai would like to advise all women entrepreneurs to prioritise their passion. She would also like to say that persistence and patience are the keys to success.

Great Companies: How did you get your idea or concept for the business? Pathikrit Dasgupta: We started our business by offering Fee Collection platforms to Educational Institutions. Our focus was to provide services to government-owned educational institutions. In this process, we identified a gap in the products available in the market. The existing offerings were not exactly solving the problem, as they offered exclusive solutions that excluded the most vulnerable members of society. As a result, we decided to develop a new product suite that ensures 100% payer inclusivity. Additionally, the built-in inclusivity benefits corporates and e-commerce platforms by providing an integrated payment platform with all available payment options. To make this more scalable, we decided to tie up with Banks in India. After the Education segment, we decided to offer the services to Government Departments, and Hospitals. Great Companies: What are the various Services provided by SabPaisa? Pathikrit Dasgupta: SabPaisa (SRS Live Technologies), is a rapidly growing fin-tech company that has developed as the World’s First API Driven Unified Payment Platform. SabPaisa has its headquarters in New Delhi, with one corporate office in Kolkata and seven other regional offices. For businesses, Payments are not mere transactions, payments bind multiple workflows including inventories, supply chain, logistics, delivery, messaging, customer payments, vendor payouts, EMI, etc. SabPaisa has worked closely with such complex businesses and business houses. The comprehensive APIs built around all workflows ensure that the Payments life cycle is complete, and has solutions from Payment Collection to Payouts and workflow APIs, all in one place. SabPaisa Product Suite enables businesses to build marketplaces over SabPaisa APIs, seamlessly integrated with the world's largest Payment Gateway Checkout. Great Companies: What makes SabPaisa different from hundreds of other similar service providers? Pathikrit Dasgupta: SabPaisa has developed as the World’s First API Driven Unified Payment Platform. The only payment gateway whose checkout page has all payment options: from online options like Cards, Net-banking, UPI, and Wallets to offline options like e-Cash, e-NEFT & Bharat QR. ● Our offline mode enables payment collection through Cash and instruments with almost 10 Lac Cash Counters across India, which is unmatched by any other player. ● The Untapped need that we cater to is Inclusivity; covering all sections of society, may it be Rich or Poor, Banked or Unbanked, and specially-abled. ● SabPaisa believes in 100% Digital; 100% Inclusive; 100% Freedom ● SabPaisa’s payments and collection application suite – white labeled to multiple public sectors and private banks including BOI, BOB, IDFC First & Indian Bank – has already processed more than INR 43.5 Billion. A figure that will grow exponentially over the next several months as SabPaisa’s payment applications continue to penetrate the fastest-growing segment of the data and payment digitization sector. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Pathikrit Dasgupta: We are a bootstrapped company from the beginning. We faced the same struggles and challenges faced by any other bootstrapped company. We tried innovative solutions to overcome the challenges of meeting expenditures, and recruiting employees. Since we started with the Government Education segment, the team had to face a long turnaround time in signing up the first few customers. Additionally, we faced challenges while trying to tie up with large banks, as we didn't have any balance sheet, and other mandatory documents required to get affiliated with a bank. Despite the difficulties, the tie-up was a success because of the unique value proposition we brought to the table. The certifications we received from the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), and the Center For Innovation, Incubation, and Entrepreneurship IIMA, helped us to some extent in overcoming the initial hurdles. Our unique offerings and tie-up with the banks made our challenges disappear faster. Great Companies: How do you plan to grow in the future? What does 5 years down the line look like for SabPaisa? Pathikrit Dasgupta: SabPaisa will continue to strengthen the existing product suite and increase the collaboration with the Banks. SabPaisa will also launch innovative API platforms to make banking more inclusive for the entire population of India. Digital India will be truly successful when we make the services offered by the Government and Corporates reach out to every strata of society. To achieve this goal, we will continue to provide more inclusive solutions. Great Companies: If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be? Pathikrit Dasgupta: Before launching the product, plan well about the Go To Market (GTM) Strategy. Ensure that the GTM you are adopting will ensure scalability, burn less cash, and provide enough value proposition to attract valuable partners. Website : https://sabpaisa.in/

Great Companies: How did you get your idea or concept for the business? Shikha Dadha: I started my journey at the age 15 as a model, but was not satisfied with what I was doing because the artist in me wanted something more and better the urge to do more lead me into joining jewellery designing course. Am a certified jewellery designer and a gemmologist. The journey then took a turn from a model to a designer. Worked as a jewellery designer for 2 years for a production house Prakash Gold Palace in Chennai but the zeal to do something more was still there and then from a designer I got into the business of jewellery. Currently running 3 jewellery stores and a wholesale office, A proud co-founder of Triveni Creations. After setting the business for 5 successful years got into another stream of business and Namoh Electricals came into existence. An adventurous journey from a model to designer and now an entrepreneur. The only thing that kept me going is that I believed in myself. My Moto in life is just be yourself cos no one else can be you. Great Companies: What are the various Services provided by Namoh Elektricals Shikha Dadha: Namoh aims to go beyond the call of duty, building a strong and long-lasting relationship with our clients. Our friendly hands-on approach allows each electrical job to be tailored to the individual needs of our clients. Our vision is to provide you with most innovative and cost-effective products and services within the electrical industry. Great Companies: What makes Namoh Elektricals different from hundreds of other similar service providers? Shikha Dadha: We are a one stop solution for all electrical needs. We are end to end supplier of electrical goods. We strongly believe in the following points. Serving our customers by adding superior value with our industry expertise, innovative systems and commitment to them To set a bench mark in quality leadership To offer the best value and service to our customers To be as a reference point for quality electrical products To reach out to the world market Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Shikha Dadha: Every business comes with challenges. Staying focused and looking forward is what one has to be persistent about. We should be ready to learn not only from our competitors but also from our team. Be a leader and not the boss and then every struggle will come as a learning. Great Companies: How do you plan to grow in the future? What does 5 years down the line look like for Namoh Elektricals? Shikha Dadha: I see Namoh as one of the leading supplier in South India for all the electrical needs having a branch in every state down South Great Companies: If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be? Shikha Dadha: I would like to give 5 important takeaways from my experience. Your power is in your people. Don’t build business build people and they will build the business. Be a good listener. Everything cannot be done by you, learn to delegate. Believe in yourself before anyone else does. Never give up, don’t stop until your proud of yourself. Website

Name: Neetu Rishi Business Name: The Success Door Location: Texas, United States Establishment (Year): 2019 Profession/ Specialty: Education Website : https://thesuccessdoor.com/ Company Detail: The Success door is a personal and professional coaching academy for youth and adults launched by Neetu Rishi, who after an assorted experience of 2 decades decided to share her lifelong learnings with the world so that they can redesign their lives. Here they remodel lives by customized training and workshops on people skills, personality development, personal development, and other life skills so that people can say that they choose their life, didn’t settle for it. Unique Selling Proposition / Competitive Advantage: 1. The trainers are in ready to mould their teaching methodology as per the learning capability of the child. 2. The whole curriculum is activity based and project based which helps the kids to apply principles in their lifestyle. Challenges faced during the Journey: To start from scratch without much connections were the main challenges faced by this company. Advice for Women Entrepreneurs: Neetu would like to advice all female entrepreneurs that we need patience and focused plan towards goals. She advices us to keep experimenting and not to limit ourselves in any definition of success. She also advices us to learn to delegate, because she says that we cannot do everything all alone.

Name: Kirti Lokhande Business Name: Kirti Lokhande Photography Location: Bangalore, India Establishment (Year): 2007 Profession/ Specialty: Industrial Photographer Website : www.kirtilokhande.com Company Detail: Kirti Lokhande Photography is into Industrial and advertising shoots. The output is in the form of Stills and Videos. Unique Selling Proposition / Competitive Advantage: There is a process involved before she actually does the shoot. She works very closely with all her clients and even ad agencies to understand the target audience and key features of the brand/product, the purpose of the shoot, the brand/product positioning, the mediums on which the campaign will be released. After this complete understanding of the requirements, the shots/images are crafted for the campaign. Similarly, a script is written for the video after all the details come in and then she shoots. Her eye for detailing, technical skills, ability to understand the requirement and translate it to stunning imagery sets her apart from the others. Challenges faced during the Journey: Main challenge is to get it right on the shop floor where she doesn't stop the production and have to get the shots right in the given conditions and stipulated time. Advice for Women Entrepreneurs: The only advice that Kirti Lokhande would like to give to anyone would to 'never stop believing in yourself'.

Name: Avisha Namdeo Business Name: ThinkMuse Location: Raipur, India Establishment (Year): 2019 Profession/ Specialty: Digital Marketing Website : www.thinkmuse.co.in Company Detail: ThinkMuse have been working even for small business to bring them online and bring a digital revolution. They have helped more than 100 businesses to plan their complete digital media strategy so that they can market themselves not in their places but to the whole world. Their Services includes : Digital marketing, Website Development, Graphic Designs, App development, Technical Trainings, Startups Business development Unique Selling Proposition / Competitive Advantage: ThinkMuse have been strong in building relationship to grow business. They have been working for the startup which are more women started. They also offer startups as a pocket friendly marketing plan so as to help them grow at most affordable budget. Challenges faced during the Journey: Avisha have faced various challenges in her day-to-day life, which includes society, no experience, not taking money from parents as a support. After the office was setup it faced many rejections, being stereotyped, loss of trust, and the major Covid crisis, leading the business to a drastic dropdown. Advice for Women Entrepreneurs: Avisha Namdeo advices all female entrepreneurs to not to give any excuse to work and dreams. She advices to work so hard. She says that a women has to work all alone and manage everything at same time but shouldn't give up the dream which can actually come true.

Name: Karishma Adawade Business Name: Wholesomebasket Marketing Pvt., Ltd. Location: Mumbai, India Establishment (Year): 2018 Profession/ Specialty: Business development and Marketing Company Detail: This is a healthy snacks manufacturing company and marketer. Their brand is NutriSnacksBox. They manufacture absolutely healthy snacks which is high in protein and fibre. Unique Selling Proposition / Competitive Advantage: Their main USP to uplift their business is that they manufacture Fibre-rich and protein-rich snacks. Challenges faced during the Journey: They are good at product development and in branding themselves but are facing difficulties in Marketing. Advice for Women Entrepreneurs: Karishma would like to advice all female enrepreneurs to just believe in themselves and dedicate themselves to achieve a mission of the company, as according to her, success is not so far.

Name: Anisha Parmar Business Name: Desi Videsi - The Road Side Lounge Location: Surat, India Establishment (Year): 2019 Profession/ Specialty: Restaurant Company Detail: Desi-Videsi is a classic and contemporary style Restro-Cafe in Surat. DVCAFE is the complete fusion of street food and international fast food situated in Adajan. They can offer the best fusion dishes and contemporary cuisines in Surat. They can also provide fusion ambience with green garden & indoor seating arrangements with fully contactless operations, along with personalized seating, big projector screen, indoor games etc. Unique Selling Proposition / Competitive Advantage: The USPs of Anisha's DVCAFE are as below : 1. Beach theme ambience and seating arrangement 2. Real jungle of plants in Lounge seating area 3. Kullad Pizza 4. Paneer Red cook 5. Desi Jungle Pizza 6. Popcorn caramel shake Challenges faced during the Journey: The heavy hit of various kinds of industries is due to the pandemic. In the case of Anisha it was just after 10 months of opening, which resulted in heavy operational losses but they are confident about overcoming it within few months further. Advice for Women Entrepreneurs: The only advice that Anisha Parmar would like to give to anyone is to be focused with self inspiration to become successful in any business chosen by you.

Great Companies: How did you get your idea or concept for the business? Monika Sundrani: I always got feedbacks and praises about my communication style and the way i explained things. People felt motivated and use to understand things quickly and efficiently. Also i worked with students as well as professionals in my past work experiences and that gives me understanding of student's mind frame and the expectations of the corporate world or business sector. And therefore with these abilitis and experience what i required was just few certifications to follow my passion of counselling students and parents. Great Companies: What are the various services provided by your company? Monika Sundrani: I provide career counselling to students as well as i also do counselling with teenagers and parents. I use psychometric assessment tests and DMIT as couple of tools to help parents and students understand their skills and intelligence. With these reports it helps them to curate a proper roadmap of career as well as life ahead. Great Companies: What makes your company different from hundreds of other similar service providers? Monika Sundrani: My USP is my academics, my experience and my way of communication that connects me best with my clients. They open up very easily and comfortably to share their problems with me. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Monika Sundrani: The challenge is the awareness in people that counselling is the need of an hour. And counselling is not only for children but more important for parents. Great Companies: How do you plan to grow in the future? What does 5 years down the line look like for your company? Monika Sundrani: India needs trained counsellors. Ratio of counsellors per student is very low compared to the required. So i see an awesome growth in my profession. Great Companies: If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be? Monika Sundrani: Stay open to learn forever and change your belief systems if they are giving you peace in life.