Certain unachievable feats which were considered to be impossible in the past were solely achieved by few women entrepreneurs. Indra Nooyi, Indu Jain, Marrisa Mayer, Kiran Shaw are some of the names that strike our minds when we talk about female entrepreneurs. On the other hand there are entrepreneurs like Divya Gugnani - founder of Send The Travel, Jennifer Fleiss – cofounder of Rent The Runway who are mothers of children and are very successful with their entrepreneurial venture.

Rent the Runway is a popular startup in the U.S. which has a great entrepreneurial idea of renting clothes and accessories online. Mother to a daughter, Jennifer Fleiss started this site and it has around 2.5 million members online. This can be considered as a good example for the investment community to understand that motherhood does not stand as a hindrance to entrepreneurship.

“All of the women I know who went to raise money did it when they didn’t have kids, there is total discrimination in the start-up world against women who are pregnant.” “Making pregnancy and motherhood a focal point of the investment process is an outdated way of thinking,” says Divya Gugnani, who is the founder of Send the Travel and also a mother to Ashvin.