Bengaluru-based venture capitalist, Ankita Vashishta, will launch a $1 billion venture capital fund to assist 1,000 women-led or women-focused start-ups in India and overseas in the next five years. — “We will be a billion-dollar venture fund platform in the next five years, the largest in the world for women. Our plan is to launch at least five more venture funds focused on diverse domains to support the growth of the female economy in multiple geographies,’‘ Ms. Vashistha, founder and managing partner, StrongHer Ventures told The Hindu.

StrongHer Ventures, a platform for women entrepreneurs and VCs, has partnered with workspace provider WeWork Labs, to launch the Arise accelerator program. — The program plans to engage with 5,000 startups, mentor 1,000 entrepreneurs, invest in over 200 startups, and create a cumulative valuation of over $1 billion. The 12-week program will provide an immersive experience in competitive strategy, design, marketing, operations, and fundraising. It will lead to investor meetings and a demo day.

How FinTech startups are democratizing the financial services industry for women in emerging economies — What is FinTech? FinTech is short for financial technology — it seems simple, right? Well, the term FinTech includes a huge range of products, technologies, and business models that are changing the financial services industry. It refers to everything from cashless payments, to crowdfunding platforms, to robo-advisors, to virtual currencies. So every time…

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How women are leading the way in the creator economy — Origins of Crypto and Web 3.0 Web 3.0 is an idea for a new iteration of the World Wide Web based on blockchain technology. The key component that makes blockchain work is Proof of Work, which is the cryptographic way of consuming energy to do a very hard math problem and end up with a mechanism…

At StrongHer Ventures, we believe that while a majority of women’s issues are common globally, they are shaped by local nuances. Influenced by these local nuances, women are at different stages of the production and consumption cycle globally. Based on the maturity of the local ecosystem and local technology, innovative…

Women represent the world’s largest and fastest-growing market, yet they remain largely overlooked and underserved in the financial industry. One billion women around the world don’t have access to financial services and there is a 9% gender gap in financial access across the emerging markets. Furthermore, economic crises and the…

Remote working is acceptable and here to stay. And that is great news for women who have struggled for years to balance their work and family. But the current pandemic has highlighted inequalities further and brought to light the truth, that, now more than ever, women at home are working…

The current pandemic has normalized remote and flexible working — previously bêtes noires of the workplace. As Professor Eliot Sherman, London Business School, said in his article on remote working “In a rather morbid twist of fate, it has taken a pandemic — an existential threat to life — to…