Wonder Women Entrepreneurs of India: September Listings
India’s entrepreneurship story is becoming harder to describe through one familiar founder archetype.
The Wonder Women Entrepreneurs of India – September 2026 feature, presented by Hypetrics, brings that variety into one list. 9 founders have been featured this month.
Some are building young businesses. Others created brands that helped establish categories years ago. There are consumer businesses alongside legal and professional services. There is fashion, mental health, intellectual property and a law practice with significant work in India’s energy sector.
Here are the women featured.
1. Dipali Sarvaiya Sheth — Eternity Legal
Sector: Legal services
Dipali Sarvaiya Sheth founded Eternity Legal, a Mumbai-based boutique law firm whose work spans corporate and commercial law, infrastructure, disputes, intellectual property and employment matters.
A particularly interesting part of its practice sits in electricity and energy law, including captive power, power-purchase agreements, energy storage, open access and regulatory matters before institutions such as CERC, APTEL and State Commissions. That makes Sheth’s inclusion notable beyond the conventional founder story. She is building inside a specialised professional-services sector where expertise itself is the product.
Her public professional work also reflects that specialisation, including analysis of captive power structures, data centres, battery storage and changing electricity regulation.
2. Meenal Malhotra — Anaario
Sector: Premium Indian kidswear
Meenal Malhotra is the founder of Anaario, a made-to-order children’s clothing brand built around organic fabrics, smaller-batch production and colourful Indian design.
The company produces pieces after orders are placed rather than building large inventories in advance, linking its brand proposition with lower excess production.
Malhotra’s profile is an example of the newer consumer-business model emerging across India: start specialised, design for a clearly defined customer and use smaller operating systems rather than imitate the scale of traditional retail from day one.
3. Richa Kar — Zivame
Sector: Intimate wear retail
Richa Kar is easily the most established name in the September feature. She founded Zivame in 2011 after identifying something Indian retail had largely failed to solve: women often had little privacy, choice or useful information when buying intimate wear.
Taking the category online allowed women to browse products, understand sizing and shop without the discomfort associated with many conventional retail experiences.
Zivame eventually became one of India’s defining early digital-first women’s consumer brands. Kar’s story remains useful because it demonstrates an entrepreneurial principle that predates today’s D2C vocabulary: a subject people hesitate to discuss can still contain a very large unmet market.
4. Samika Agarwal — Ikaa
Sector: Contemporary womenswear
Samika Agarwal founded Ikaa after completing fashion school in London, building the label at 22. The brand combines contemporary womenswear with Indian craftsmanship and works with local artisans while positioning clothing around personal expression rather than prescribed styling.
Ikaa is also one of the younger businesses in the group. Agarwal’s own professional profile describes the company as a dialogue between design and the people wearing it.
Her presence on the list adds something useful: entrepreneurship does not have to follow years in corporate employment. Sometimes the founder’s learning curve and the company’s learning curve begin almost together.
5. Akshita Pandey — The Therapy Park
Sector: Mental health and wellness
Akshita Pandey founded The Therapy Park, a Kolkata-based psychotherapy collective built around trauma-informed, culturally rooted and non-pathologising mental-health practice. Its model places unusual emphasis on both sides of therapy: the client receiving support and the therapist providing it. The practice says practitioner wellbeing, collaboration and sustainable ways of working are part of how it approaches care.
Pandey is a counselling psychologist, and The Therapy Park operates as a small mental-health-care organisation in Kolkata. That is entrepreneurship too.
Not every founder is building a product. Some are redesigning how a professional service is delivered.
6. Komal Garg — Avisa Consulting
Sector: Legal marketing, recruitment and personal branding
Komal Garg’s Avisa Consulting occupies another specialised business niche. It works with law firms and lawyers on personal branding, reputation, marketing and talent acquisition while operating within the advertising restrictions governing India’s legal profession.
The proposition is interesting because professional services increasingly need many of the same capabilities as consumer businesses (visibility, differentiation, talent and reputation) but must build them within very different regulatory boundaries.
Garg’s professional background also includes extensive work around the legal industry and recruiting for law firms.
7. Suchi Mukherjee — LimeRoad
Sector: Fashion and digital commerce
Suchi Mukherjee founded LimeRoad around a problem that now sounds obvious because so much of e-commerce has since adopted it: online shopping needed better discovery, not merely a larger catalogue.
Its Scrapbook feature allowed shoppers to combine products into looks and share them, bringing a social and visual layer into Indian fashion e-commerce relatively early.
LimeRoad later became part of V-Mart, and Mukherjee has written publicly about the company’s subsequent omnichannel growth and her decision to step back and consider her next chapter. Her inclusion alongside much newer founders gives the September list some generational range.
8. Advocate Yukta M. — IP Owl Associates
Sector: Intellectual property law
Advocate Yukta M. founded Bengaluru-based IP Owl Associates, an intellectual-property law firm working with startups, creators and growing companies. Its work includes trademarks, copyright, designs, enforcement, licensing, NDAs, founder agreements and related commercial contracts.
Yukta describes her practice around practical corporate and intellectual-property advice rather than treating IP as a matter that begins and ends with registration.
Her inclusion, together with Sheth and Garg, also makes one feature of this month’s list particularly visible: women are building businesses around legal expertise itself, rather than appearing in entrepreneurship coverage only through consumer brands.
9. Vartika Seth — VYAVI
Sector: Contemporary jewellery
Vartika Seth is the founder of VYAVI, a contemporary jewellery brand built around the idea that jewellery need not be restricted to occasions, traditional gifting rules or fixed ideas about who should wear what.
Its positioning emphasises everyday wear, self-expression and design rather than jewellery as ceremony alone.
Seth describes VYAVI as a fashion-jewellery business emerging from her own interest in building a brand around personal expression. It is a familiar category approached through a different customer proposition, which is often where good consumer entrepreneurship begins.
What stands out about the September list?
Not one story of adversity. Not one sector or one age of business. And not one definition of what a woman entrepreneur in India looks like.
There are founders creating new brands and founders whose companies have already travelled through acquisition and scale. There are lawyers. A psychologist. Fashion entrepreneurs. A specialist consultant. Women building around deeply personal consumer needs and women building for other businesses.
That variety matters.
Change in Content recently looked at the broader female entrepreneurship trends shaping 2026, where the conversation is increasingly moving away from simply encouraging women to “start something” and towards whether businesses can find customers, build systems, scale and create durable economic value.
This month’s Wonder Women Entrepreneurs feature provides nine very different examples of what that participation can look like.
Recognition matters. Building matters more.
Lists are snapshots. They introduce founders to people who may not otherwise encounter their businesses. But the more useful story lies behind the recognition.
A founder has identified something worth solving. Then persuaded somebody to buy it. Built a team, practice, product or platform. Changed it when the first version did not work. And kept doing that long enough for somebody outside the company to notice.
India has much to celebrate here. More than one lakh DPIIT-recognised startups now have at least one woman director or partner, while women are also building millions of smaller enterprises outside the formal startup ecosystem. That wider expansion was central to our National Startup Day 2026 analysis of women founders.
The next test is scale, access to capital, ownership and longevity. But visibility has value too. And for September, these are the 9 founders worth knowing.
Editorial Note & Sources
The “Wonder Women Entrepreneurs of India – September 2026” is a recognition feature published by Mid-Day and associated with Hypetrics. Change in Content has treated it as a featured list, not as an independently audited ranking. The source article does not publish a scoring methodology or claim that the founders are ordered by performance. Business descriptions in this article have therefore been independently rewritten and, where possible, cross-checked against company or founder information.
Mid-Day — Wonder Women Entrepreneurs of India, September 2026. Primary source for the nine featured founders, businesses and categories.
