After working for around 23 years in the corporate world, Nitya Ganapathy called it quits and launched Nei Native, a ghee brand made out of her family’s secret recipe with Rs 5 lakh. In a little over a year, she is making Rs 10 lakh per month

VP Sidhan, founder of Medimix, went around town on his bicycle promoting his product. Today, his grandson is taking the family legacy forward, strengthening the Medimix brand and launching his own Ayurvedic beauty startup, says Sofia Danish Khan

India-born Shakti Anand Srivastava runs a successful bespoke tailoring store called ‘Stava’ in Canada. Sofia Danish Khan tells the story of how he built the brand from scratch with a unique business model of getting the clothes made from India

In early 2020, close friends Prachi and Aditya quit their jobs on the same day, got married later and the same year launched a ready-to-cook food brand with Rs 10 lakh. Prachi recounts her story of how a girl from a village became an entrepreneur

During the pandemic many tried to save their jobs amidst the nationwide layoffs, but not Vineet Saraiwala who quit his high paying job and launched a startup to create livelihoods for persons with disabilities, not caring about his own disability

Sundeep Singh and Akashdeep Dan came together in 2018 and launched ‘Uncle Peter’s Pancakes’ from a cloud kitchen in Bengaluru with an investment of Rs 3 lakh. In three years, the brand has grown and touched a turnover of Rs 11 crore, says Shyla F