{"id":7502,"date":"2025-10-09T14:34:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T09:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thankyoubharat.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/09\/women-startups-win-prizes-worth-%e2%82%b911-lakh-at-tie-women-rajasthan-chapter-competition\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T14:34:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T09:04:23","slug":"women-startups-win-prizes-worth-%e2%82%b911-lakh-at-tie-women-rajasthan-chapter-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thankyoubharat.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/09\/women-startups-win-prizes-worth-%e2%82%b911-lakh-at-tie-women-rajasthan-chapter-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Startups Win Prizes Worth \u20b911 Lakh at TiE Women \u2013 Rajasthan Chapter Competition."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Winner Pooja Vishnoi Receives \u20b95 Lakh Equity-Free Grant<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>New Delhi [India], October 9:<\/strong> In alignment with Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s vision of a developed India by 2047, TiE Rajasthan is championing the cause of women entrepreneurship. Recognizing that women-led startups make up only 18% of the total ecosystem compared to over 55% led by men, TiE Rajasthan is working to bridge this gap through mentorship, investor engagement, and global exposure opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>At the TiE Women Pitch Competition \u2013 Rajasthan Chapter, prizes worth \u20b911 lakh were awarded to promising women-led startups. The competition also opens the gateway for winners to compete at the global stage with the chance to win US $50,000.<\/p>\n<p>The first prize went to Pooja Vishnoi, founder of Desigo, who received an equity-free grant of \u20b95 lakh. Pooja\u2019s innovation focuses on building a solar-powered milk cold chain to deliver pure and fresh milk to remote areas, ensuring quality and accessibility.<\/p>\n<p>The first runner-up was Ekta Arora, founder of Kaspertech Luminox, a startup manufacturing intelligent street lighting solutions.<\/p>\n<p>The second runner-up was Vartika Saini, founder of Fixpapa Technologies, an IT hardware lifecycle platform.<\/p>\n<p>Both received \u20b950,000 each as equity-free grants.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, 10 women-led startups were recognized under the Special Category Awards, each receiving \u20b950,000 in funding support.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sheenu Jhanwar, President of TiE Rajasthan, emphasized:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is meaningless to imagine a developed India without the development of women entrepreneurship. We are committed to nurturing women founders with mentorship, resources, and encouragement. Slowly, we are changing investor mindsets and seeing excellent results.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Anil Agarwal, Lead of TiE Women Rajasthan, added:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTiE will continue to support these award-winning startups in presenting their ideas at the global level, ensuring that women entrepreneurs get the recognition and opportunities they deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The event was judged by our esteemed jury comprising Anish Thomas, Arvind Thanvi, Dhawal Singhal, Kanika Singhroha, Karan Bansal, Mahi Singh, Manuj Goyal\u2069, Nitin Jain, Shiv Ram<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winner Pooja Vishnoi Receives \u20b95 Lakh Equity-Free Grant New Delhi [India], October 9: In alignment with Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s vision of a developed India by 2047, TiE Rajasthan is championing the cause of women entrepreneurship. Recognizing that women-led startups make up only 18% of the total ecosystem compared to over 55% led by men,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-7502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","tag-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thankyoubharat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thankyoubharat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thankyoubharat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thankyoubharat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thankyoubharat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thankyoubharat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thankyoubharat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thankyoubharat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thankyoubharat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thankyoubharat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}