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When Sonal Shah was 16, she asked her mother, an entrepreneur, whether she could join her business.
Her mother ran The School of English, a Delhi-based institute that gives students vocational training in communication, language, and technology skills.
This sowed the seeds of Sonal’s entrepreneurship journey later in life. After working with her mother for seven years, she moved to the US for her master’s in social entrepreneurship at the Hult International Business School in 2014, as she was keen to learn how disruptive technology could be used for social good.
“When I moved to Silicon Valley, I used that experience, along with my master’s degree, to create Equally, an AR platform that teaches kids. I run this startup with my husband, Anshul Dhawan, in San Francisco. We got venture-backed in 2018 and have been successfully growing since then,” she says. Equally already has 20,000+ users onboard and is present in 12 countries across the world.
Women’s Day Special: 7 Entrepreneurs To Watch Out For In 2021
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Last year has been a difficult time for everyone around the world. It has seen economies struggle and businesses taking a hit due to the pandemic induced lockdown restrictions Amidst these tough times, we saw entrepreneurs rising above challenges and innovating real-time to cater to their audiences in a never seen before ecosystem. With the new normal leading to newer market challenges, women entrepreneurs across various industries ranging from retail-tech, agri-tech, alco-bev, e-commerce, and communications stepped up to design new businesses, products with an aim to impact the ecosystem and make lives for consumers easier.