The pandemic killed her maiden venture. But the cofounder and CEO is now living her entrepreneurial dream with FitBudd
November 2021, Gurugram. “So how do you manage your responsibilities at home?” asked the person sitting across the table. Saumya Mittal, the mother of a toddler, stared at the venture capitalist (VC) in stunned silence. It was a funding pitch, the chemical engineer from IIT-Delhi was into the early months of her second venture, and with the kind of background Mittal came from—over eight years at Cairn Oil and Gas—the entrepreneur was right in wondering if the person asking the question had gone out of his mind. “I was 100 percent sure he would not have asked this to any male founder,” recalls Mittal, who co-founded a fitness SaaS platform for coaches along with Naman Singhal in May 2021.
(This story appears in the 24 March, 2023 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)