bengaluru can woman entrepreneurs lead the next flipkart the indian government thinks so the government in collaboration with indous science and technology forum and anita borg institute is sending a group of indian woman tech entrepreneurs to the silicon valley in the us to help them understand the entrepreneurial culture there this month they will meet some of the top executives at ebay the worlds largest online market place and google to get mentoring and strategic investments they will also connect with government agencies trade associations and venture capitalists to grow their business and raise capital which is one of the biggest challenges for woman entrepreneurs the government of india has initiated several measures to promote entrepreneurship among women as it realises the critical role of women in national development said anita gupta director at governmentrun national science technology entrepreneurship development board department of science and technology the government alone cannot sustain the movement of empowerment of women said gupta from helping online retailers know the emotions of their customers to making wearable tech clothing that charge gadgets these woman entrepreneurs are drumming up business from innovations that have traditionally been led by men i am keen to grab the opportunity of taking our solution to the us market said sreepriya koppula 33 founder of bengalurubased turnaround systems the startup provides a technology to online retailers like flipkart snapdeal and myntra that automatically enhances the image quality of their products makes them three dimensional and interactive on websites an alumnus of iitkharagpur koppula has also won a grant of rs 5 lakh from anita borg institute for her yearold startup the mother of two children is hoping to get some strategic investment in the silicon valley which is home to many of the worlds largest corporations like apple facebook as well as thousands of tech startups and top institutes like stanford university another entrepreneur lavina mahbubani would showcase her wearable tech firm lumos design technology an alumnus of national institute of fashion technology mahbubani is creating a wearable platform to deploy a range of solutions to problems faced by consumers for example her bengaluru based firm makes bags that can power gadgets running out of charge using solar energy entrepreneurs to set up innovative companies said kannan lot of work is required to create a level playing field for woman entrepreneurs it has been so biased said ashwini asokan 33yearold chief executive of chennaibased mad street den an artificial intelligence and computer vision startup that helps large online retailers analyse emotions of customers by tracking facial expressions and eye gaze when they shop online it also sells a product that enables consumers do a visual search for fashion items by feeding images now lot of kinship is getting created among woman entrepreneurs we are forming informal support structures like whatsapp and email groups to help each other said naiyya saggi 31 chief executive of baby chakra an online platform that helps parents discover and decide on the best local