Anuradha Acharya

Anuradha Acharya is an Indian entrepreneur. She is the founder and CEO of Ocimum Bio Solutions and Mapmygenome. And was awarded Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2011. Her shefoughtback journey starts at the initial days when she started Mapmygenome, one of which was finding homegrown talent. She had to get a lot of talent from outside India, This cost a lot of money too. Besides this, the regulation in the Indian constitution about genetics and the tests related to it were not very clear. To overcome this, Acharya looked at the regulation in place in other countries, and tried to abide by those rules, as the framework in India was not clear. She has come a long way due to her commitment to the task at hand.
Acharya was awarded ET Women Ahead honor by the Economic Times in 2015. She was named by Red Herring Magazine to the list of 25 Tech Titans under 35 in 2006 and 2018 W-power trailblazers by Forbes.