INR 1 Crore seed fund for 10 Women’preneurs
Britannia Marie Gold My Startup
Season 4.0 rolls our INR 1 Crore seed fund for 10 Women’preneurs
-Received
interest from over 2 million aspirants: highest ever
India, 2023: Britannia Marie
Gold My Startup initiative has announced the top ten winners of its 4th
Season and awarded them INR 10 Lakhs each to
jump-start their business ventures.
Britannia Marie Gold's My Startup initiative is a platform that
encourages women to become entrepreneurs, and in turn, become job creators and
be financially independent. Running successfully for 4 seasons, the flagship
initiative has received interest from over 2 million aspiring participants this
season. The Britannia Marie Gold team has been able
to train over 80,000 participants with a business skills’ training program.
This year, the shortlisted contestants presented their ideas to an
illustrious panel of jury members comprising women entrepreneurs such as Rashmi
Daga, Sairee Chahal, Piya Bahadur, Latha Chandramouli and
Ruchika Bhuwalka. The jury also included prominent business and media
personalities along with members from Britannia's leadership team.
Britannia Marie
Gold's My Startup program has successfully run for four seasons, providing an
ecosystem to budding women’preneurs to get funding and skilling support. Through
the 4 years, the Initiative has collaborated with the likes of National Skills
Development Council (NSDC) and Google to provide online training on financial
literacy, micro entrepreneurial skills and communication skills necessary in a
business environment.
One of the highlights of Season 4 is that all
participants had access to Google’s WomenWill program, a business literacy
program with a “how to” curriculum on turning an interest into a business,
managing an enterprise, and promoting it for growth. All participants who
completed the learning journey were awarded a certificate.
Speaking on the finale of
Britannia Marie Gold My Startup contest 4.0, Amit Doshi,
Chief Marketing Officer, Britannia Industries Limited said, “Over time,
Britannia Marie Gold has established a strong connection with women across the
country. According to a World Bank study, only seven out of every hundred
entrepreneurs are women. As per the 6th economic census by the Ministry of
Statistics and Programme Implementation, women comprise just 13.76% of the
total entrepreneurs in India. Our mission with the My Startup program is to
steadily and sustainably grow the
representation of women in the entrepreneurial ecosystem in India. The program
focuses on 3 key requirements of financial assistance, skilling and marketplace
access. In Season 4, we
garnered interest from over 2 million aspirants from across India, making it the highest number ever. Our
winners for this season come from some of the most remote towns and villages in
the country and have displayed incredible grit and passion to bring alive their
business ideas. Britannia will play a
consultant role and will handhold the winners as they embark on their
entrepreneurial journeys”.
Shalini Puchalapalli, Director of Google Customer
Solutions, Google India, commented on the finale saying,
“Technology can help businesses grow —
but only if the people who lead and work for those businesses have the right
skills. This is especially true for women entrepreneurs across the board - be
they small businesses, creators, developers, or start-ups – and the inspiration
behind our commitment to support this community in their journeys through our
products and platforms, and with skilling programs such as WomenWill. We’re
delighted to have offered a new community of homepreneurs this specially
designed curriculum through Britannia’s My Startup Contest for the second
successive season and wish all participants success.”
List
of winners
Sr.
No |
Name |
Age |
State |
Idea |
1 |
Vasam
Mounika |
27 |
Telangana |
Wants
to grow kids focused handloom cotton apparel manufacturing business and add
QR code-based identity tags for added safety. |
2 |
Anisha
Shetty |
37 |
Maharashtra |
Wants
to build on her venture - children focused thrift store |
3 |
Kanchan
Bhadani |
61 |
Jharkhand |
Train
tribal communities and make toys in mass for the markets through crochet craft
technique |
4 |
Anjali
Srivastava |
22 |
Uttar
Pradesh |
Satellite
based AI solution for smarter cultivation to farmers |
5 |
Soundharya
R |
26 |
Tamil
Nādu |
Earthen
pottery kitchen utensils business |
6 |
Sonali
Deshmukh |
35 |
Maharashtra |
dehydrating
seasonal fresh edible produce and sell under a B2B model |
7 |
A.Vanitha |
43 |
Tamil
Nadu |
Scale
up her RTE and RTC healthy and nutritionally dense food startup brand
BellyBrain. |
8 |
Swati
Namdev Katkar |
37 |
Maharashtra |
Create
an auditory and verbal therapy center in rural areas |
9 |
Kavitha
Raghavendran |
37 |
Tamilnadu |
Offer
inclusive education by opening a
Preschool for Special kids |
10 |
Suhasini
Suresh |
40 |
Karnataka |
Ease
cleaning of water based mess with her revolutionary cleaning product -
Zorb-it ! |
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