Britannia Marie Gold My Startup initiative has announced the top ten winners of its 4th Season and awarded them Rs. 10 Lakhs each to jump-start their business ventures.
Britannia Marie Gold's My Startup initiative is a platform that encourages women to become entrepreneurs, and in turn, become job creators and be financially independent.
Running successfully for 4 seasons, the flagship initiative has received interest from over 2 million aspiring participants this season.
The Britannia Marie Gold team has been able to train over 80,000 participants with a business skills’ training program.
This year, the shortlisted contestants presented their ideas to an illustrious panel of jury members comprising women entrepreneurs such as Rashmi Daga, Sairee Chahal,Piya Bahadur, Latha Chandramouli and Ruchika Bhuwalka.
The jury also included prominent business and media personalities including Senthil Kumar, Amit Bapna, Gaurav Lagathe, Prasad Sangameshwaran and Delshad Irani,along with members from Britannia's leadership team.
Britannia Marie Gold's My Startup program has successfully run for four seasons, providing an ecosystem to budding women’preneurs to get funding and skilling support.
Through the 4 years, the Initiative has collaborated with the likes ofNational Skills Development Council (NSDC)and Google to provide online training on financial literacy, micro entrepreneurial skills and communication skills necessary in a business environment, according to an official release from the company.