Indian Entrepreneur & Flexibees CEO Shreya Prakash named amongst Aurora Tech Award 2025 Groundbreaking Finalists

– Established in 2020 by inDrive, Aurora Tech Award champions feminine entrepreneurs who drive innovation and create significant social impression by means of know-how

• The winner will likely be introduced on the Aurora Tech Award Ceremony on April 11-13 in Cairo

New Delhi, twenty sixth February 2025: Shreya Prakash, co-founder and CEO of FlexiBees, has been acknowledged as one of many high 10 feminine entrepreneurs and the finalist within the Aurora Tech Award 2025—a prestigious world prize celebrating women-led know-how startups.

The annual award spotlights the perfect feminine founders in rising markets, celebrating visionary ladies entrepreneurs who’re redefining the know-how panorama. 

FlexiBees addresses a important world problem: low feminine workforce participation, significantly in India and past.

The platform connects skilled ladies professionals with companies by means of versatile, project-based, and distant work fashions, making a win-win answer for each expertise and employers.

Since its inception, FlexiBees has empowered over 85,000 ladies professionals and supplied expertise options to 850+ companies globally.

With an bold imaginative and prescient, the corporate goals to impression 5 million ladies over the subsequent 5 years by means of job alternatives and skilling initiatives, focusing on a $200 million income milestone. 

Past enterprise, FlexiBees is making strides towards the United Nations Sustainable Growth Objectives (SDGs) 5 and eight—Gender Equality and Respectable Work & Financial Progress—by fostering financial inclusion for ladies.

This yr’s shortlist options trailblazing founders from MENA, LATAM, Central Asia, and APAC, every main startups providing options throughout industries starting from synthetic intelligence and fintech to well being tech and past. 

• Shreya Prakash, founding father of FlexiBees (India) – versatile expertise platform with vetting for ladies.
• Laura Velásquez Herrera, founding father of Arkangel AI (Colombia) – AI SaaS that transforms medical information into AI algorithms with out code.
• Manzo Nyifamu Ogechi, founding father of Farmatrix (Nigeria) – a better means to purchase and provide farm merchandise. 
• Gulnaza Khalmanbetova, founding father of Mama Area (Kyrgyzstan) – an AI-guided help system for mothers and moms-to-be. 
• Thais Sterenberg de Oliveira, founding father of Elephan (Brazilia) – an AI-enabled B2B SaaS that helps to draw and handle leads and purchasers. 
• Leonie Korn, founding father of UpLeap (Switzerland) – an AI-driven platform to revolutionize medical coaching by means of brief, hands-on simulations. 
• Veronica Lee, founder Borderless ( Uzbekistan) – an all-in-one AI-powered school counseling platform for worldwide college students.
• Solape Akinpelu, founding father of HerVest (Nigeria) – a  fintech platform empowering ladies by means of inclusive monetary companies. 
• Loretxu García, founding father of Nido Contech (Chile), nature-based options for the development trade.
• Heiura Itae Tetaa, founding father of E-Reo (French Polynesia) – an answer for digitizing indigenous languages. 

Earlier, 4 Indian startups– Aica Well being, Dzylo, MAMMA-MIYA and Tech4Good Group had made it to the longlist of the coveted Aurora Tech Award.

The Aurora Tech Award is an annual world prize devoted to supporting and recognizing ladies founders of early-stage know-how startups. Established in 2020 by inDrive, the award champions feminine entrepreneurs who drive innovation and create significant social impression by means of know-how.

“Aurora isn’t only a tech award—it’s a launchpad for the subsequent technology of unicorn founders in rising markets.

With funding, high-profile investor entry, and a worldwide community, we again the boldest ladies in tech who’re constructing ventures that may redefine industries”, stated head of the Aurora Tech Awards, Isabella Ghassemi-Smith. 

The finalists have been chosen primarily based on the innovation, scalability, and social impression of their startups. A distinguished panel of trade specialists and buyers will consider their work earlier than asserting the winner on the upcoming Aurora Tech Award Ceremony on April 11-13 in Cairo. The ultimate pitch competitors will likely be held at SHE CAN 2025 organized by Entreprenelle

In regards to the mission

Aurora Tech Award is a non-profit initiative of inDrive, a worldwide mobility and concrete companies platform. The Aurora Tech Award is an award for ladies tech startup founders whose tasks have had a profound impression on world improvement.

The target is to help ladies within the discipline of superior applied sciences, particularly ladies entrepreneurs

inDrive operates in over 888 cities in 48 international locations. Pushed by its mission of difficult social injustice, the corporate is dedicated to having a constructive impression on the lives of 1 billion individuals by 2030.

It pursues this objective each by means of its core enterprise, which helps native communities through a good pricing mannequin; and thru the work of inVision, its non-profit arm.

inVision’s neighborhood empowerment applications assist to advance schooling, sports activities, arts and sciences, gender equality and different important initiatives. 

inDrive is a worldwide mobility and concrete companies platform. The inDrive app has been downloaded over 200 million instances, and was the second most downloaded mobility app in 2023.

Along with ride-hailing, inDrive supplies an increasing record of city companies, together with intercity transportation, freight supply, job help and  courier supply. In 2023, inDrive launched New Ventures, a enterprise and M&A arm.

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