The Main Power Behind the Success of Rugs and Beyond, Sakshi Talwar

Sakshi Talwar is the co-founder of Rugs and Beyond which is an online business that sells unique, handcrafted carpets and home décor while assisting skilled weavers and artisans in Northern Indian communities. She often contributes to several online media including Huffington Post, and The New York Times, Business Standard, among others, have lately written on her.

Sakshi is a techpreneur who is in charge of developing the company’s development plan, managing client relationships, and upholding its brand. She also oversees the company’s international activities and has organized trade exhibits with great success in South Africa, Thailand, and Portugal. She has studied interior design at Parsons School of Design in New York and creates unique carpets for customers, enabling her to take on turnkey projects for both home and commercial environments.

Her dedication to advancing women in business earned her WEF’s recognition as “an Iconic Woman Contributing for a Better Tomorrow.” At a Ted Talks event in New Delhi, she recently led a class on “Discovering and following your genuine passion.” She is a techpreneur by trade and a painter by passion. She recently conducted her painting show in New Delhi with the express purpose of donating a portion of the revenue to the less fortunate children.

In 2018, she served as the leader of a group of female entrepreneurs that traveled with the Indian-US government to the World Bank, the UN, Harvard, MIT, and other institutions. Most recently, she attended the World Economic Forum in Davos as India’s Young Woman Leader. She was asked by IIM-Shillong to give a keynote speech on “Entrepreneurship 101” and by istic, acting as the South-East Asia delegation, to speak at a conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.