Anu Bhardwaj

Founder & CEO of SHEQONOMI, the world's first suite of mobile apps on Android, iOS, KaiOS, and JiOS focused on women-led podcasts powered by women targeting the bottom billion. Check out our web-based directory on the link above to submit your RSS Feed or check out our curated selection of 5,000+ podcasts across 50+ languages (http://www.podcastHERS.com/podcasts). SHEQONOMI is also one of 7 female-led startups for Reliance JiO’s 2022 “Build For Bharat” Cohort featuring 50 of India’s leading mobile startups leading innovation across all JiO Platforms. 2021 Global Finalists for Financial Inclusion (The Peoples Republic of Bangladesh) for the SDG Impact Accelerator hosted by the Government of Turkey, UN Technology Bank, UNDP, and other multilateral and multinational stakeholders 2020 Global Transform Fund- (COVID Innovation) Competition WINNERS from the Islamic Development Bank for the Royal Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, The Sultanate of Oman, The United Arab Emirates, People's Republic of Bangladesh, and the Republic of Indonesia. In 2021, SHEQONOMI launched "Amplifying Her Voice" Global Virtual Summit Series in colloboration with The State of Women Institute, Women Investing in Women DIGITAL and 55 global women's organizations that had 3,000+ attendees, 555 global speakers. from 120+ countries, featured in 90+ global newswires including Bloomberg, Thompson Reuters, Yahoo! Finance and other prominent news outlets to date.

Prior to founding SHEQONOMI, Ms. Bhardwaj spearheaded Women Investing in Women DIGITAL, The State of Women Institute, and the 2010-2013 U.S. Department of Commerce Private Equity/Venture Capital Certified Trade Missions to the Nordics and Middle East, representing over $175 billion USD private-equity and venture-capital interests in collaboration with the International Trade Administration, the U.S. Embassies in the Royal Kingdoms of Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and the Sultanate of Oman. Her client list includes top-tier global private equity, venture capital, and fund-of-funds such as Irving Place Capital, Castle Harlan, W.L. Ross, Pegasus Advisors, NEA, HBG Holdings, Cubera Private Equity, Lion Capital, Novak Biddle, Alinda Capital, Top Tier Capital, Pantheon, Pathway Capital, TH Lee, and Veronis Schuler Stevenson.

Ms. Bhardwaj has led international business development delegations for private equity professionals globally, and served as a keynote speaker, panelist and moderator at women in private equity, philanthropy, blockchain, digital assets, and deep tech focused global summits.