The greatest challenge that a woman entrepreneur faces is that she is a 'woman' 

Sharmin Ali, CEO & Founder, Instoried 

“Increasingly, the Indian corporate world is opening up to women in leadership positions and many of them already have done so. Others have programs in place to encourage women to become leaders. We have not seen much disparity in the start-up world. 

I think the greatest challenge that a woman entrepreneur faces is that she is a 'woman'. A lot of taboos that have been rampant in our society have often restricted women from scaling up at their workplace. Women have come such a long way in the tech industry. Through dedication and passion women’s positions in tech continue to grow. I always wanted a team which would have an equal number of women. My CTO and I were very sure that we needed to onboard women techies. I have to admit that earlier it wasn't easy to find them, but we eventually did and now 60% of our workforce are very smart women.

We started during the pandemic so by nature we have had a remote working culture from the beginning. We have been working pretty efficiently in this model with people from across the world in our team. We do not have an office space. I would say the major advantage for us in a remote setting is the access we have to talent from anywhere in the world. Being a Saas company, this results in having an edge in the market too.”