Britannia Marie Gold My Startup initiative has announced the top ten winners of its 4th Season and awarded those INR 10 Lakhs each to jump-start their business ventures. Britannia Marie Gold’s My Startup initiative is a platform that encourages women to become entrepreneurs, and in turn, become job creators and be financially independent. Running successfully for 4 seasons, the flagship initiative has received interest from over 2 million aspiring participants this season. The Britannia Marie Gold team has been able to train over 80,000 participants with a business skills’ training program.
Britannia Marie Gold’s My Startup program has been successful for four seasons, providing funding and skilling support to budding women entrepreneurs. It has collaborated with NSDC and Google to provide online training on financial literacy, micro entrepreneurial skills, and communication skills.
In Season 4, participants had access to Google’s program, a business literacy program with a “how to” curriculum on turning an interest into a business. Shalini Puchalapalli, Director of Google Customer Solutions, Google India, commented on the finale saying, “We’re delighted to have offered a new community of women’preneurs this specially designed curriculum through Britannia’s My Startup Contest for the second successive season and wish all participants success.”
