Building <div>Bhavini Mehta is a new generation entrepreneur who believes in empowering and lifting people around her. She started her career at a very young age tasting the corporate culture, soon to realise that she was not made for it.<br><br>Bhavini is born in India. She received her bachelor’s degree in Marketing from Christ College in 2004 and an MBA (Finance) from AESPG Institute of Management Ahmedabad in 2006 . She began her career in banking with HDFC Bank Ltd. A serial entrepreneur, Bhavini has founded multiple businesses including a loan channel partner company with HDFC Bank and Kotak Mahindra Bank. She has recently founded a full-service publishing company – Outliers Publishing<br><br>She firmly believes that women can achieve all that a man can and much more, however, there exists a difficult phase in every woman’s professional life when she decides to plan a family. Bhavini faced it herself too and that acted as a motivating factor for her to create a workspace that is conducive to all the women in that special phase of their lives. Her business focuses on employing work from home mothers and women students who need support in their further studies. “There is opportunity for everyone, you must be vigilant to grab those” is her mantra for life and her advice for all. </div>
Startup Growth Stories from Ahmedabad
Building <div>I am the founder of Zero Gravity Communications, an inclusive full-service agency that is based in Ahmedabad.<br><br>I am a creative business strategist with the right mix of analytical and logical reasoning, customer empathy, and critical design thinking. I believe in a holistic market-driven approach to address complex business challenges, passion to solve these with creative solutions and using new media at our disposal.<br><br>I have extensive experience working with clients of different scales. My experience includes Corporate, Legacy / Traditional Businesses, Start-ups, FMCG, Product & Services companies.<br><br>I have worked with L&T Infotech and Gateway TechnoLabs in past before turning to a full-time Marketing and Branding Consultant. I have worked hands-on in Sales, Marketing, Branding and Strategic areas. Now, at Zero Gravity Communications I am striving to put all my professional learning in real practice.<br><br>As a founder of Zero Gravity Communications, I am looking for opportunities to apply human-centric design to uncover and deliver meaningful experiences that a brand requires. My interests are in qualitative customer and market research, a strategic framework to deliver experiences across multiple touch points, internal brand positioning to unify business goals with marketing objectives, segmenting customers based on behaviours, needs and desires. In order to continue differentiation and sustainable growth, companies need to empathize with what their customers truly desire, and I can provide the necessary tools, processes and frameworks to deliver just that.</div>
Building <div>Minal Desai aka the MasterNi, a second-generation edupreneur who builds schools for the future and not the past. <br><br>She is also the partner at Amara Ventures. Amara is a seed-stage venture fund investing in the underdogs of the world to Build exciting products that Grow exponentially and Create Wealth. Their portfolio startups include Cricheroes, VastraApp, Opoyi, MailModo, Fixcrafft, OurEye.ai, Mindpeers, Freshqo.<br><br>An unnoticeable, quiet girl in school, she carried a world within herself. From Economics to Design to Education, to angel investments in tech she has worn many hats and has earned each one of them with sweat and perseverance.<br><br></div><div>She roots for those who have a fast learning curve and a disdain for status-quo because she is one such entrepreneur. <br><br></div><div>A good conversation, a book worth rereading, and problems worth solving make her sparkle with joy. </div>
Building <div>Insights and mental health. Skyquest One of the most innovative companies by Fast Company in 2017<br><br>Shriya Damani is a dynamic entrepreneur, trained technology research professional with optimal exposure to project management & sound experience in market development for life-science companies. An M.Sc. in Biotechnology, she mentors the Skyquest team and is an internal quality champion for all the projects.<br><br></div><div>Shriya brings in ingenuity in her approach to problem-solving and has been instrumental in strategic growth of Skyquest and its clients. She has been part of over 30 technology licensing deals, and several research projects for global companies. Being a strong advocate of shared learning, she is frequently invited at various fora to speak on innovation & entrepreneurship in India and abroad. Shriya has given more than 25 training sessions and presentations globally. She has also been course editor for technology management module—Agriculture Technology Management course run by National Academy of Agriculture Research & Management (NAARM) and Hyderabad Central University.</div><div><br>She has also Co-Founded WaterQuest HydroResources Management India Pvt. Ltd.<br><br>.<br><br>Skyquest Technology Group is a Global Technology Aggregator & Accelerator working in the areas of Agritech, Life Sciences, Nanotechnology and Cleantech, founded in 2006, providing Strategic Advisory services like:<br><br>a) Business Prospecting & Facilitation, Deal-making and Technology Transfer & Commercialization (Co-partnering, In-licensing, & Out-Licensing).<br><br>b) Global Custom & Proprietary Search, Evaluation and Acquisition of Technologies.<br><br>c) Technology or Product Specific Market Research, Business Partner screening.<br><br>d) New Market Entry, Expansion and Soft-landing support.<br><br>e) Collaborative & Clinical Research Project Management.</div>
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