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Name: Mumtaz Kazi Business Name: iDigitize Location: Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates. Established (Year): 2021 Category/ Industry: Professional and other Business Services Profession/Specialty: Digitization and Automation Website: www.idigitizeglobal.com Social Media: LinkedIn Company Details: Using the Microsoft Power Platform's technologies to digitise and automate processes for 75–80% less money. At iDigitize, intelligent solutions are at the heart of all iDigitize do. iDigitize’s fundamental objective is to use technology in clever and creative ways to contribute to the creation of a brighter future for everyone, everywhere. Unique Selling Proposition/ Competitive Advantage: iDigitize’s goal is to assist businesses in streamlining operations while leveraging the most recent tools and technology in a productive and economical way. iDigitize’s customers are like family to them. Anyone can contact iDigitize for free with any questions or requests for suggestions. To assure their empowerment, iDigitize even offer free training to a few employees from their client organisations. Challenges Faced During the Journey: Overtime, Mumtaz realized that technical skills are not enough, having process knowledge is equally important to communicate with clients. Mumtaz’s brother in law came in like a blessing as a partner in the company and the combination of process + technical skills was amazing! iDigitize got their first client in August 2021 which motivated them and gave them the boost needed. iDigitize’s aim for the first year was to spread awareness and increase their customer base. This is extremely challenging for any new business. However, with word of mouth and social media platform - LinkedIn, iDigitize were able to reach out to wide number of audience. Advice For Women Entrepreneurs: One major piece of advice is to establish good relationships with customers or potential customers. Attending conferences, seminars, and events have helped in marketing for iDigitize. She also advises you to take risks and to do your best. Start a business in something you believe in and something you love to do.

Name: Tania Bustamante Navarro Business Name: Tuux Meikoo Location: Queretaro, Mexico Established (Year): 2022 Category/ Industry: Legal & Accounting and Finance,Insurance Profession/Specialty: LAWYER Website: TUUXMEXIKOO.COM Social Media: LinkedIn Company Details: Tuux Meikoo respects the artistic traditions that have been used for social benefit. 10% of Mexicans identify as artisans (12 million). 80 percent are older than 50. Just 14% of workers are paid the minimum. Tuux Meikoo link prospects for ethical and fair trade with the creation, manufacture, and marketing of fine handicrafts. To eliminate inequality gaps, Tuux Meikoo support the strengthening and development of craftsmen. Unique Selling Proposition/ Competitive Advantage: In order to deliver a premium tailored project using the appropriate approach (for instance, corporate/social presents, unique décor items, etc.), Tuux Meikoo first must comprehend their client's idea or concept. The project is then valued using a fair trade viewpoint. Tuux Meikoo handle all aspects of logistics. So, through our partnership with Tuux Mexikoo, we are able to advance social welfare while giving all of our client’s access to exclusive partnerships with master craftspeople. Challenges Faced During the Journey: Gaining the trust of frightened artisans has been a difficult but rewarding undertaking. Trust has been cultivated by personal visits to the communities of each technique's leaders and direct communication with them. Tuux advocates "fair trade" and collaborates with "master craftspeople" to target luxury corporations who can support their social impact. Recognized incubators have backed Tuux, and the company emphasises to prospective customers their special value addition. Advice For Women Entrepreneurs: For Tania, it is important to be proud of your history, where it came from, and how it came from, we do not have to lie about it, and even though it is a challenge for a social enterprise but we have a world that is aware of the enterprise a little more. It is important to believe in yourself.

Name: Hemarani Aushat Business Name: Argus CMPO (& ARD Digital Media LLP) Location: Mumbai, India Establishment (Year): 2012 Category/ Industry: Advertising & Marketing Profession/ Specialty: Brand and marketing, Consultancy Website: http://www.arguscmpo.com Social Media: LinkedIn Company Detail: Services offered by Argus CMPO includes; entrance into the India market (for Beauty Brands), consultation from Idea to Consumer (for Beauty Brands), internet marketing, E-commerce administration. Unique Selling Proposition or Competitive Advantage: Having been in the business for more than three decades and keeping up with modern marketing trends. Other USP’s include; experience, knowledge, subject-matter authority, and trust. Challenges Faced During the Journey: She describes herself as an accidental entrepreneur who quit a comfortable corporate job to pursue personal goals over career aspirations. Furthermore, the two worlds are totally dissimilar. The two key components of a successful enterprise, managing finances and bringing in the proper personnel, were both areas where she utterly failed. Yet she did make course modifications after learning the hard way. Advice for Women Entrepreneurs: Entrepreneurship on your own is not enjoyable. Make an effort to secure the correct people's backing at the appropriate cost. The rewards of hard labor are constant and cannot be substituted.

Name: Julie W. Koester Business Name: Dragon Horse Agency Location: Naples, Florida, USA Establishment (Year): 2015 Category/Industry: Advertising & Marketing Profession/ Specialty: Business Marketing Solutions Website : https://www.dragonhorseagency.com/about/our-leadership/ Social Media : Linkedin Company Detail: Dragon Horse Agency, a marketing and advertising agency focuses on developing marketing strategies to assist companies in increasing brand recognition, foot traffic in stores and online, and sales. Having headquarters in Santa Monica on the US West Coast and Naples, Florida on the US East Coast, Dragon Horse Agency works with big and small enterprises to ensure their success and growth. Dragon Horse Agency works with customers to create individualized plans that are tailored to their unique objectives and goals by utilizing their marketing experience and expertise. Unique Selling Proposition / Competitive Advantage: Dragon Horse Agency was one of the first to create a new class of business marketing services that makes use of business know-how, insight, and strategy. Built on this platform, its flagship product, DragonONE, is intended to support the expansion and success of enterprises. Challenges Faced During the Journey: Dragon Horse Agency has faced numerous challenges during the course of its existence, which has been close to eight years. Dragon Horse Agency started out as a self-funded company fighting against well-established marketing agencies and marketing businesses run by a single owner or operator. In addition, Dragon Horse Agency had to buy out a third partner due to a problem with their relationship. Third, Dragon Horse Agency dealt with a number of natural calamities, including two CAT-5 hurricanes, a RED TIDE, and the pandemic that affected the entire world. In spite of these obstacles, Dragon Horse Agency persisted in adapting and investing in its customers and internal processes, which led to multiple accolades and a soaring clientele. Advice for Women Entrepreneurs: Absolutely, women need to be aware of their advantages in the workplace. They shouldn't be afraid to follow their passions, ideas, or dreams. Women in prior generations put a lot of effort into removing the ceilings and hurdles that limited the access to opportunities. Women have the chance to shape our future right now.

Name: Sreela Pillai Roy Business Name: Organic Orchards Private Limited Location: Calcutta, India Establishment (Year): 2016 Category/ Industry: Manufacturing and Retail Profession/ Specialty: Manufacturing Website: http://www.myurvija.com Social Media: Linkedin Company Detail: Founded on May 11, 2016, Organic Orchards Private Limited is a private company. It is registered with the Registrar of Companies in Kolkata and is classified as a non-government company. It has a paid-up capital of Rs. 1,850,000 and an authorised share capital of Rs. 2,500,000. It is involved in horticulture, market gardening, and crop growing. It offers a comprehensive selection of skin and hair care items, such as shampoos, foot and body lotions, cleanser bars, day and night creams, and serums. It is a D2C brand that is adequately distributed through our website and important e-commerce portals. Beginning in 2021, Organic Orchards will also begin exporting their goods to the United States. Sreela Pillai Roy, Sanat Kumar Das, Sunipa Sinha Roy, and Jayasri Sarkar are the directors of Organic Orchards Private Limited. Unique Selling Proposition or Competitive Advantage: Organic Orchards’ ability to successfully replace palm oil with more environmentally friendly, locally produced components is one of Organic Orchards’ proposal's two most distinctive selling points. Also, Organic Orchards constructed a production facility that has been authorized by the Ministry of Ayush, giving them complete visibility over the efficacy of the procedures and ingredients used. Organic Orchards are able to provide better personal care products that are created within an entirely sustainable value chain. Challenges Faced During the Journey: It was difficult to replace palm oil during the product development stage. Following a thorough investigation, oils from Madhuca Kusum and other forest products were used to substitute palm oil. At different phases, the company adjusted its packaging, moving away from single-use plastics and towards glass jars for a few products in order to provide a fully sustainable solution. Finally, the market for beauty products is getting more competitive. She finds it difficult to make her products visible without a big marketing budget. Advice for Women Entrepreneurs: Be prepared to be disheartened. Be ready to pick yourself up every time you fall.

Name: Pallavi Sharma Business Name: Elegancia Location: Dehradun, India Establishment (Year): 2022 Category/Industry: Training & Coaching Profession/ Specialty: Creative writing and etiquette coach Social Media: Linkedin | Instagram Company Detail: By Pallavi’s creative writing, Pallavi hopes to spread happiness. Pallavi’s primary area of expertise is motivation, and spread a growth mentality among those who are having a hard time and want to better themselves. This has been Pallavi’s life's philosophy because she loves to develop while fostering others' brilliance. Unique Selling Proposition or Competitive Advantage: Innovation and clarity Challenges Faced During the Journey To succeed and establish her own identity, she pushed herself and got out of her comfort zone. Advice for Women Entrepreneurs: Self-confidence is the first stage to taking a progressive leap. Since you deserve it, you can accomplish it.

Name: Vallari Parikh Singh Business Name: The Spicy Palate Location: Mumbai, India Establishment (Year): 2020 Category/ Industry: Travel, Food, Event and Entertainment Art Profession/ Specialty: Home chef Social Media: Instagram Company details: The Spicy Palate is a vegetarian kitchen started by Vallari Parikh Singh in the year 2020. The restaurant serves food across Mumbai, India. This home-based kitchen serves numerous dishes starting from fresh homemade dips to an entire carte menu. Unique selling proposition/ competitive advantage: Focusing on ‘House party’ communities with a customized menu of dips and appetizers makes “The Spicy Palate” very popular in the industry. Maintaining hygiene and delivering food of the best quality is the USP of the team. Challenges faced during the journey: Food delivery was the greatest challenge faced by the team as the kitchen primarily focused on party orders. Delivery via two-wheelers was quoted as one of the great risks faced but later Vallari Parikh Singh managed to deliver intact food with proper packaging via Uber for long-distance orders. Advice for women entrepreneurs: Vallari Parikh Singh stimulates the minds of young entrepreneurs by asking them to stay focused on their passion with patience so that they can build the business of their dreams.

Name: Lucy Jun Business Name: TuMédico Location: Bogotá, Colombia Establishment (Year): 2023 Category/ Industry: Health & Wellness Profession/ Specialty: Healthtech Website: https://www.tumedico.com.co/ Social Media: Linkedin1 , Linkedin2 Company details: The digital health company TuMédico offers accessible, affordable, immediate virtual telecommunication medical consultations for patients with chronic diseases and in need of continuous care. Conditions or diseases like diabetes, hypertension, diarrhea, and sore throat are monitored. In addition, general fractionators are also available. The service includes assigning personal assistants for patients right from the consultation to monitoring their health. Recently, service models are developed at TuMédico to offer Healthcare Concierge service to provide on-time services at affordable prices. For its excellent service in taking care of people’s health, TuMédico was chosen as the Finalist of MIT Solve 2022, "Más vida: Accerlando Telehealth" by UNDP Colombia, "Reto Innovacion Que Late." Unique selling proposition/ competitive advantage: Among the healthcare systems and companies in Colombia and LATAM, TuMédico stands exclusive as they are the first to launch integrated health tech services from A to Z. Also, Lucy made sure to maximize the accessibility of the services provided by TuMédico and was the first to serve the underserved communities in need through telemedicine facilities via local pharmacies. Challenges faced during the journey: After facing great difficulties in overcoming conventional patient behavior in Colombia, Lucy was able to build trust with her clients long-term by targeting local pharmacies in small towns. Being a young immigrant, Lucy along with her excellent team crossed many obstacles in developing partnerships and building close relationships with her potential clients. Advice for women entrepreneurs: Lucy cheers all the young ladies out there to trust their guts and seek help when required. She insists that asking for help is not a sign of weakness but sometimes it shows the strategic way of handling difficult situations.

Name: Vayjayanti Pugalia Business Name: Sonalis Cubo Location: Kolkata, India Establishment (Year): 2018 Category/ Industry: Training & Coaching Profession/ Specialty: Life skills coach/curator Social Media: Linkedin Company details: Sonalis Cubo founded by Vayjayanti Pugalia focuses on creating dialogues with communities that need attention. Some of the situations they deal with are the trans community in India, child entrepreneurship, and developing networking as well as other soft skills necessary for women in micro and macro businesses (homepreneurs). To bring positive change in the growth of the community, Sonalis Cubo organizes seminars and competitions to put all the common thoughts of people to work. Also, Vayjayanti has practiced working with children for the past 15 years and made a great contribution to molding them by imparting manners and fine dining techniques. Unique selling proposition/ competitive advantage: Delivering honest work to people through engagements that are full of precision and discipline. Creating powerful and acceptable impacts in society by focusing on areas that require immediate attention. Challenges faced during the journey: Initially, Vayjayanti found it tough as she had no workspace or has been financially supported with corporate backing. Throughout her long journey, she managed to gain a lot of experience by learning. With her strong intention and mindset, she and her team had created their own place in the minds and hearts of people. Advice for women entrepreneurs: Vayjayanti Pugalia strongly believes that women have the capability to excel beyond their expectations. She encourages, motivates, and advises all the women out there to find their ikigai, and take a break, but not to pause their intention to grow. She says, “If they believe, they can!”

Name: Shveta Birthare Business Name: iVerify Research Services Pvt Ltd Location: Gurgaon, India Establishment (Year): 2019 Category/ Industry: Professional and other Business Services Profession/ Specialty: Sales & New Business Development Website: https://www.iverify.co/ Company details: iVerify offers secured human resource services like pre-employment and employment screenings. The company provides services like drug abuse tests, background screening, leadership screening, criminal record management, and case management in response to problems. The team believes that a company’s principal asset is its employees and thus makes sure to verify and forecast every applicant. This is carried out with an in-house team who stays in touch with the applicants. The entire hiring process gives businesses an advantage by avoiding the reckless hiring of applicants. Unique selling proposition/ competitive advantage: iVerify offers accurate verification of candidate’s data and backgrounds using technological advancements like AI and ML. One of the unique abilities is forecasting the candidate’s behavior in the future using technology. The industry is said to be the first to implement AI and ML for precise verification, thereby resulting in speeding up and speeding up the timeframe of the screening process. Challenges faced during the journey: iVerify was launched on December 2019, just before COVID-19 hit the nation. This led to great difficulties in people’s life. The firing rate was much greater than the hiring rate. The scenario became worse and the companies began to experience fraud and employee theft. It was a crucial time as the country’s economy fell and it became difficult for iVerify to earn the trust of organizations. Enduring all, Shveta Birthare never gave up and her prior experience in Sales for almost 10 years gave her a hand to develop the ‘never give up attitude’. With persistence, hard work, and determination, Shveta and her colleagues were able to onboard a Fortune 500 and a Global Fortune 500 client within a year. That was the start, and presently iVerify has grown so much that many reputed organizations are getting added to the client portfolio. Advice for women entrepreneurs: Shveta Birthare feels that persistence and determination are the two qualities that can lead an individual ahead in their path. She insists that believing in yourself and working on your thoughts are the keys that will open the doors of opportunity. She encourages the forthcoming entrepreneurs by quoting, “We as women are the most beautiful creation and can achieve anything we set our minds to.”

Name: Vu Thi Thai An Business Name: Annie Vu Location: Hanoi, Vietnam Established (Year): 2018 Category/ Industry: Travel, Food, Event and Entertainment Art Profession/Specialty: Travel/PR Marketing Website: https://www.tubudd.com/ Social Media: LinkedIn Company Details: Tubudd is a company started by Annie Vu, it helps people find a local buddy when someone wants to visit a particular place and do not want to be bounded by language barriers. You can either find a buddy or we can request a buddy as well through this app. Unique Selling Proposition/ Competitive Advantage: The website helps you communicate with a local buddy without any language barrier. The local buddies help you find the best deals in the town. With the help of your local buddy, you can have box experiences, go to places you didn’t know about, and travel off the beaten paths. Challenges Faced During the Journey: There is a lot of stigma growing up as a female entrepreneur, from friends, family, and society. And people are not supportive but you have to find opportunities and work on it. The tour industry is underwhelming due to robotic schedules, it needs more innovation to make things interesting. Advice For Women Entrepreneurs: It will not always be men vs women, it will also be women vs society, norms, and beliefs and sometimes you will be frustrated but that is only when you have to show your true power.

Name: Ayesha Kotwal Business Name: UpRisers Preschool Location: Pune, India Establishment (Year): 2022 Category/ Industry: Education and Learning Profession/ Specialty: Education Website: https://upriserspreschool.com/ Social Media: LinkedIn Company Detail: Children between the ages of 2 and 8 can receive foundational stage care and early childhood education at UpRisers Preschool, which takes an integrated approach. The five pillars of education that we focus on are: 1. Physical Socially 2. Emotionally Mental, 4. Spiritual, and 5. Every child at UpRisers Preschool will have a lot of skill, creativity, intelligence, compassion, love, truthfulness, and the virtues of sharing, but most importantly, they will all be incredibly happy people. Unique Selling Proposition or Competitive Advantage: UpRisers Preschool fosters contemporary world skills while encouraging the "Old Gurukul System" and the "Sanskaars" in a child. This fusion learning makes UpRisers different from other institutions. Programs are an affordable, naturalistic style of education that was created with consideration for all socioeconomic classes. Challenges Faced During the Journey Since parents today choose e-learning and gadget- and device-based learning, running a preschool with a Gurukulam model presented challenges from the outset. Due to the originality of her idea, she ran into problems when parents questioned her. Also, parents oppose the idea of exams for their kids because the word "exam" causes terror in youngsters of this age group. The main obstacle was also money because UpRisers Preschool is entirely self-funded and has not yet received any funding of any type. She was in need of money, so it was challenging. Advice for Women Entrepreneurs: For all the women with dreams, passions and visions, you are doing great. Keep working hard and you will see the results. You are already a leader by choosing to be an entrepreneur. Be consistent in your business and you will see hard work pays off and miracles do happen.