Top 10 women-founded startups in India

MobiKwik - Upasana Taku

In 2009, Upasana Taku is co-founded the mobile wallet and online payment platform MobiKwik and Payment gateway, Zaakpay.

She graduated from NIIT and Stanford University and worked at PayPal in California before returning to India in 2008.

MyDala - Anisha Singh

MyDala is among the largest online coupon and discount platforms in India that provides offers on restaurants, grocery, entertainment, travel, body-art, spas and salons, gyms and other categories.

Founded by Anisha Singh in 2009, the online company now handles 2, 00,000 transactions everyday and targeting 400 million consumers in over 200 cities.

Prior to MyDala, Anisha worked for the Clinton Administration raising funds for women entrepreneurs.

CashKaro - Swati Bhargava

An Alumni of London School of Economics and having 5 years of experience in Goldman Sachs, Swati started Pouring Pounds - a B2B business that sets and manages cashback & voucher websites for large partners.

Similarly, she started CashKaro.com in 2013 which became India's largest cashback & coupon website.

Sheroes - Sairee Chahal

Sairee Chahal, a business graduate from IMT Ghaziabad, with an M Phil from Jawaharlal Nehru University has taken upon herself the task of bringing career opportunities to women with SHEROES.in.

Sheroes was launched in 2013 a platform that provides a career eco-system for women. It broke even in its first year and now has over 7,000 companies listed on their platform.

ShopClues - Radhika Ghai

Radhika Ghai is the co-founder and CMO of ShopClues, an e-commerce company that sells everything between technology and fashion to footwear and jewellery.

Before ShopClues, Radhika started a company called FashionClues, which was a content portal for NRI women.

Infibeam - Neeru Sharma

Founded in 2007, Infibeam is involved in e-tailing, software and internet services with Neeru Sharma as the head of corporate and business development.

Before Infibeam, Neeru worked at Alcatel India and holds an MBA degree from Carnegie Mellon University and an engineering degree in computer science.

Yatra - Sabina Chopra

Yatra.com - one of India's leading online travel website was co-founded by Sabina Chopra. Under her leadership, the company has expanded its customer base and scaled up its reputation.

In 2010 she was felicitated with the Women Leaders of India.

Zivame - Richa Kar

Richa Kar co-founded Zivame in 2011 after after discovering that lingerie is an under-served category in the country. Working with a brand that owns Victoria's Secret, Richa even found out that a large portion of sales are earned through the ecommerce channel.

This is what drove her to start Zivame and today, it is the biggest online retailer of lingerie in India.

SlideShare - Rashmi Sinha

Rashmi Sinha and her husband, with the help of her older brother Amit Ranjan, built SlideShare, a site for people to share presentations online. In just six months of its launch in 2006, more than 9 million presentations have been uploaded to her site. In 2012, LinkedIn acquired SlideShare for over $100 million.

In 2012, she was also ranked at the eighth spot of Fortune's most powerful women entrepreneurs list.

Limeroad - Suchi Mukherjee

On her maternity leave at the age of 39, Shuchi Sinha though of an idea. LimeRoad.com is a women-only website showcasing look books of various designers.

Shuchi launched LimeRoad in October 2012 with a vision of creating the largest womens-only marketplace in South East Asia.