Ambiga Subramanian additionally holds the document for being the primary Indian girl to guide a startup valued at over billion {dollars}.
Business chief and investor Ambiga Subramanian ranked solely behind Biocon chief Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and Byju’s co-founder Divya Gokulnath within the record of wealthiest self-made ladies in India’s Silicon Valley Bengaluru. Her net value was estimated at Rs 1,830 crore as per the newest Kotak Private Banking Hurun Leading Wealthy Women List for India.
Subramanian additionally holds the document for being the primary Indian girl to guide a startup valued at over billion {dollars}. She is {an electrical} engineering graduate from Chennai’s Anna University. Ambiga pursued her masters in Computer Engineering from Michigan within the US.
Ambiga started her profession with communications big Motorola in 1998. She joined Mu Sigma in 2004. The agency was based by her ex-husband Dhiraj Rajaram. She held a number of roles on the firm earlier than taking on as COO after which CEO of the main knowledge analytics agency. In 2017, she was ranked because the youngest of India’s eight richest self-made on the Hurun wealthy record.
The couple parted methods and Ambiga finally give up her function at Mu Sigma. Rajaram purchased her 24 % stake within the firm to change into its controlling shareholder. Ambiga then launched her subsequent enterprise hyphen.social in 2018 as a social networking platform. She additionally changed into a profitable investor, backing upcoming corporations like Innov8, Piper Biosciences, Box8, ICE Creative Excellence and CarterX.
