20 Indian Startups Selected For Google's Women-Focused Accelerator Program

Among 400 applicants, Google picked 20 Indian companies for its Startups Accelerator Women Founders Program. It will help these companies secure capital, hire talent, resolve problems, and extend mentorship to their employees and allies.

All these companies were founded or have at least one woman founder. The program aims to tackle challenges faced by women entrepreneurs. It will also host workshops on machine learning, cloud, Android, UX, artificial intelligence, etc.

Take a look at the 20 startups that made it to the list:

1. Fitbots

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Headquartered in Bengaluru, Fitbots helps CEOs to align their employees with key results and objects, also called OKRs. It also offers coaching and certification to the team enrolling for its programmes. It was started by Vidya Santhanam.

2. Elda Health

Elda Health was co-founded by Sindhuri Ananth and Swathi Kulkarni. It is a women-focused healthcare startup that offers research-based solutions to people looking for solutions for menopause and menstruation.

3. Dubverse

Co-Founded by Anuja Dhawan, Dubverse is an artificial intelligence-enabled video dubbing platform that claims to have services spanning over 30 languages. It is based in Delhi-NCR and was started in 2021.

4. Jumping Minds

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Founded in 2021, Jumping Minds is community-based wellness and health mobile application. It is a platform that offers people to seek help anonymously before they can actually meet a therapist. It is a Delhi-NCR-based startup founded by Ariba Khan.

5. Mishry

Mishry has a headquarter in Gurugram, and it is a platform where people can get authentic reviews for dining and cooking spaces. It was founded by Tanu Ganguly, ex-Editor and Creative Head at NDTV Food.

6. PickMyWork

PickMyWork is also a Gurugram-based startup that helps several companies get hold of their customers through a pay-per-acquisition model. It has offers like user activation, merchant acquisition, etc. Vidyarthi Baddireddy co-founded it and is the CEO.

7. OPOD Audio

Co-Founded by Aakanksha Varude, OPOD Audio is a Mumbai-based startup that has an application providing news on trending topics. It delivers news in more than nine languages.

8. Rang De

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Situated in Bengaluru, Rang De is a peer-to-peer lending startup that extends financial help to underprivileged people like small entrepreneurs, farmers, students and others across India. Smita Ramakrishna co-founded it.

9. Savage

Founded by Ekta Tibrewal, Savage is a Bengaluru-based startup that offers complete care to women looking for answers to queries for menopause, PCOS, thyroid, gut health, weight and hormonal imbalance.

10. Brown Living

Brown Living was started by Chaitsi Ahuja in 2019. It is a Mumbai-based company that offers solutions for a sustainable lifestyle. It is also a sustainable food brand. From clothes and home décor to baked goods, you can get your hands on your favourite product.

11. The Bridge

Arshi Yasin founded The Bridge in Bengaluru. It is a sports-focused news platform that covers a wide range of games, including Olympic sports, wrestling, kabaddi, badminton, etc.

12. LXME

Based out of Mumbai, LXME was founded by Priti Rathi Gupta. It was the first financial platform in India dedicated to only women. It aims to empower women and help them become financially independent. From saving to investment, the platform has solutions to every query.

13. Tradyl

Founded by Shweta Agrawal, Tradyl is an online platform offering services for business-to-business (B2B) trade for wholesalers. It allows companies settled abroad to gain products from India.

14. FreeStand

Based in Delhi-NCR, FreeStand was founded by Sneh Soni. It is a marketplace for the sampling of FMCG products. It helps businesses scale, monitor and launch sampling campaigns.

15. Commudle

Commudle was founded by Arpan Garg to help companies build and advance software development teams. It is based in Delhi-NCR and claims to have partnered with several companies that have seen 100 times growth in community engagement.

16. MeMeraki

Yosha Gupta founded MeMeraki in 2017 to help artisans in rural areas become content creators and earn their living. It organises masterclasses and art workshops focused on arts.

17. CoLLearn Education

CoLLearn Education is a startup focused on mentorship and celebrity-led programs in finance and sports. It was founded by Srishty Jain, and some of its courses include cricket umpiring, multimedia sports journalism, python in finance and football analytics.

18. Sprint Studio

Shaveta Bhardwaj established Sprint Studio in 2021 in Mumbai. It is an AI-enabled startup that helps brands carry out research and studies via online surveys, community conferences and video conversations.

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19. TrackNow

Started by CA Pooja Khemka in 2015, TrackNow is an online platform for businesses to manage their workforce in real-time and vehicle fleet.

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20. Aspire for Her

Focused on getting jobs for women, Aspire for Her provides mentorship, career resources and employment opportunities to females looking to make a career in any sector. Madhura Dasgupta Sinha founded it in Mumbai in 2019.

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