In May, Startup Grind Fremont celebrated Female Founders month. This vibrant panel of female CEOs represented a diverse array of industries and different stages of start-up-hood. During the panel, the four women shared stories about creating a work/life balance, as well as the ups and downs of their respective startup journeys.

  • Niousha Zadeh is the founder and CEO at Brite Health, a brain health app for senior citizens. Niousha has a PhD in Experimental Medicine and is among the top 100 influential innovators in the Persian community.
  • Yukte Oberoi and Anuja Jaiswal founded Yuhmbox to provide busy families with healthy dinner options during the week. Yukte left her successful corporate career at NetSuite to follow her passion for family and healthy foods.
  • Saylee Raje, founder and CEO at Ethnic Thread, splits her time between the U.S. and India and is living her dream of building a community of fashionista’s that want to buy, rent, and exchange ethnic dresses. She is an engineer by education and has also worked as a life coach.

From left to right – Yukte Oberoi, Co-Founder of Yuhmbox; Shilpi Sharma, Director of Fremont Startup Grind; Saylee Raje, CEO of Ethnic Thread;and Niousha Zadeh, CEO of Brite Health

The female founders had the following pieces of advice for the attendees who have launched or are thinking of launching a company.

  • Don’t worry about conflicting advice. Listen and make your own decisions.
  • Use empathy to identify an unserved market and create products that serve them.
  • Know your target customers and the best way to reach them.

On July 26, Startup Grind Fremont will be speaking with Andy Pandharikar, founder of Tall Idea Labs at EFI (6700 Dumbarton Circle, Fremont, CA). Pandharikar is an experienced entrepreneur and a self-described “hands on entrepreneur” investor. He has built and sold a fashion-tech startup to India’s leading ecommerce fashion portal, Myntra, which was recently acquired by Flipkart, a multi-billion dollar ecommerce company in India. He will share advice on how to attract funding and what investors are looking for in order to make investment decisions.

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