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Biography
Anisha Singh is an Indian businesswoman and founder of She Capital, a female-focused venture capital firm. She is also the founderand former CEO of Mydala.
Singh is one of the mentors of Startup India programme, an initiative of the Government of India.
Education and career
Singh did her MA and MBA from American University in Washington, D.C. She started her career as a Strategic Alliance Manager for a software company in the United States. Additionally, she collaborated with the Clinton administration on the Springboard project, which assisted female entrepreneurs in raising money. Later she came back to India and founded a digital technology content company called Kinis Software Solutions.
She established Mydala in 2009, a local services marketing platform with 100+ cities in India and the United Arab Emirates.
Singh founded SheCapital in 2018, an early-stage fund that invests in businesses run by or with a focus on women.
Singh has spoken on woman-related topics at Mobile World Congress in Shanghai, Global Mobile Internet Conference Beijing, Seedstars Asia Summit Thailand 2017, TEDx IIM Indore, One Globe Conference, London Tech Week 2021, and India Unlimited Sweden 2016.
Other work
Anisha Singh is the president of the jury of the Cartier Women's Initiative Awards for the South Asia-Oceania region. She was also a judge in MTV's reality show MTV Dropout Pvt Ltd.
Her càreer has been mentioned in the books "Female Innovators at Work: Women on Top of Tech" by Danielle Newnham, "Super Women, Inspiring Stories of 20 Women Entrepreneurs" by Prachi Garg, and "Dare to Be: 14 Fearless Women Who Gave Wings to Their Dreams" by Rinku Paul.
Awards
- Singh was recognized as one of The Top 100 Global Diversity Leaders in 2020
- Champions of Change 2017
- 50 Most Influential 2018 under the Business category in Women in Asia