Tamil Nadu has 576 start-ups with all women founders and around 3,654 start-ups with at least one woman founder, shows data collated by YNOS Venture Engine. Of this 2,076 start-ups are based out of Chennai, Coimbatore comes second with 488 startups and Madurai has around 119 start-ups. Tiruchi, Salem and Tiruppur also have substantial number of start-ups which are spearheaded by women. The total funding raised by women-founded start-ups from angels and VCs has been about ₹3,520 crore (124 start-ups). Funding obtained by women-founded start-ups in the form of loans from banks and other sources have been about ₹2,906 crore (308 start-ups). Tamil Nadu also has start-ups run by women which are valued at more than $10 million, shows the analysis carried out by Thillai Rajan A, professor, Department of Management Studies, IIT-Madras and Head, Centre for Research on Start-ups and Risk Financing (CREST). “If we were to compare Tamil Nadu with other States, Maharashtra has around 11,065 startup...
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