40 outlets in 4 cities - Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai and Pune. The chain currently serves two lakh customers every month across its outlets.

Mast Kalandar raised USD 6 million from Helion Venture Partners and Footprint Ventures in its third round of funding. The couple went ahead with the risky idea for the startup knowing well that the venture can turn out to be unfavorable but with their coupled effort and dedicationtoday their venture have critical acclaim.

#4 Meena and Krishnan Ganesh

Founded CustomerAsset and TutorVista

Ganesh and his spouse Meena, an IT professional in her own right, started CustomerAsset, a BPO company, which was then a very new kind of venture in 2000. Barely two years down the line (2002), after this venture established itself, they sold out to ICICI and CustomerAsset became OneSource (now Firstsource). By the end of the next year, they had overseen the transition and the entrepreneurial

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