With International Women Entrepreneurs Day 2025 on 19th November 2025, just around the corner, sharing quotes on behalf of Ostara Advisors, Routematic and MicrobioTx. Kindly leverage them in your story piece, should you be working on one.
Thanks in Advance.
1. “On International Women Entrepreneurs Day, I honor the resilience and grit of women founders who don’t just build businesses but also solve real problems with empathy and create opportunities for others. As a woman leading in mobility, I’ve seen that technology is most powerful when it is inclusive, sustainable, and shaped by real-world experience. At Routematic, we’re committed to making corporate mobility smarter, cleaner, safer and more equitable, especially for the women who rely on it every day. My message to the ecosystem is simple: invest in women, mentor them, and back their ideas. Their leadership will drive not just economic progress, but a more sustainable and equitable future.”
— Kavitha Ramachandragowda, Co-Founder & Executive Director of Routematic
About Routematic:
Routematic is a pioneering urban mobility solution designed for daily office commutes, dedicated to enhancing the transportation experiences of companies managing round-the-clock employee shifts. Currently present in 23+ cities across India servicing 275+ clients and 300K monthly users. Routematic’s vision is to create accessible, safe, reliable, comfortable, and affordable daily commuting options for every member of the global workforce, all while contributing to the reduction of the global carbon footprint. Routematic solutions portfolio offers a holistic range of offerings for Corporate Mobility Technology, Transport as a Service offering that covers end to end fulfilment using Routematic Fleet as well as Managing transport operations. Some of Routematic’s achievements include being awarded the most innovative product by NASSCOM (2019) and emerging Runners up in Asia’s Largest Mobility Startup Challenge Organised by VIA ID held at Singapore in 2019.
2. “Women’s Entrepreneurship Day is a reminder of the strength and clarity that women bring into building purposeful businesses. At Ostara Advisors, we are proud to work with visionary founders who are not only transforming India’s climate-tech landscape but proving that sustainability and scale can go hand in hand. Today, we celebrate women who are driving disruption, shaping markets, and inspiring change through determination and innovation. It’s more than recognition; it’s a call to empower more women to lead, build, and create impact. Here’s to the women redefining industries and accelerating a cleaner, more equitable future. The momentum is here, and the future is undeniably female led.”
— Vasudha Madhavan, Founder & CEO, Ostara Advisors
About Ostara Advisors:
Founded in 2015, Ostara Advisors has established itself as India’s first specialized climate-tech investment banking firm, dedicated to fostering sustainable growth through enabling strategic financial solutions. With an unwavering commitment to the planet’s future, Ostara Advisors is at the forefront of climate-tech sectors, including Electric mobility & Decarbonisation, providing growth capital raising and M&A advisory solutions to climate-positive businesses. Ostara has helped facilitate over $125 million in climate capital for Indian startups, closing landmark deals for companies like Routematic, Altigreen, Zypp, Ion Energy, Vitalcore Technologies and Cogos. It advised on India’s first electric two-wheeler M&A deal—Greaves Cotton’s acquisition of Ampere Vehicles in 2018.
3. “World Women’s Entrepreneurship Day reminds us of the strength women bring in managing families, caring for loved ones, and handling multiple responsibilities. Today, more women are using that same resilience and clarity to build purposeful businesses. At MicrobioTx, this spirit guides our work in advancing gut health through science and a people-first approach. Here’s to every woman who balances home, care, and ambition showing how leadership and compassion can drive meaningful progress”.
— Akanksha Gupta, co-founder and Business Head, MicrobioTx.
About MicrobioTx:
MicrobioTx aims to provide hyper-personalized wellness solutions to improve individual well-being based on latest scientific advancements. The founding team comprises of Dr Palok Aich, a senior microbiome researcher – with decades of gut research behind him, Akanksha Gupta, a seasoned healthcare professional with a mission to improve healthcare for the masses and Dr Prashanth Dumpuri, an ex-silicon valley data scientist with extensive experience in medtech MNCs and startups. They are joined by a team of microbiologists, data science researchers and engineers.Application of gut research for preventive healthcare is rapidly being proven but is held back from mass adoption. The team is convinced that gut research needed to be within easy reach of the masses for their better health and is working to provide a simple, affordable and convenient microbiome-based solutions.
