Entrepreneur for Women’s Interest and the leader of Mahila Money and SHEROES, Sairee Chahal

Sairee Chahal is a board member, mother, serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and advocate for women’s internet. She presently leads Mahila Money, a community neobank for women, as well as SHEROES, an online ecosystem for women that provides assistance, entrepreneurial and job possibilities, information, and community through the SHEROES App. She also sits on the boards of the US-based Women in Cloud, Paytm Payments Bank, and Milaan Foundation.

When she was barely 17 years old, she left her home and enrolled in a Russian language study at Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her life really began to take off at this point. She received her first project from a couple in the Indian Foreign Services who were being assigned to Moscow during her second year of college. She gladly accepted their request for a tutor when they made it. It was at this period that the USSR had collapsed and other nations established new embassies in India. Working with practically all of them was a reality for her. She had four years of experience with her by the time she finished her five-year degree.

In 1999, she started her first business, Newslink Services. Sheroes began as a network for women focused on careers, and in only two years, about 1 million women and 20K enterprises had signed up. Over 16 million women already use the Sheroes network, and roughly 10,000 of them work remotely through it.