New Age Mompreneurs

           It was her decade long career in finance, consulting, and the development sector which made Kanika realise how much she enjoyed creating and implementing something from end-to-end. The next step was to start a venture where she could plan, create, and scale from the ground up. Cohoma Coffee was a manifestation of that.  Kanika and her husband Paritosh, have always been coffee lovers and enjoy experimenting with different coffee flavours. They decided to take this love for coffee to the next level and venture into specialty coffees. As a business decision too this made sense, with India being among the largest producers of coffee in the world. Kanika discovered that while till recently, most of this was exported, domestic consumption of coffee had risen exponentially over the last few years. As awareness and exposure increased so did people’s demands for an authentic coffee experience. The problem was most people had no clue where to...

    When the lockdown happened in 2020, Karishhma’s biggest concern was how to keep her three-year-old productively occupied. She explored a number of options but couldn’t find something which involved learning in a creative fun-filled way. Thus, was born Arshiv & I; an attempt to home school her toddler. After a few discussions with the Montessori teachers, Karishhma put together a preschool binder for her son, which was highly appreciated by a group of friends. Before she knew it, there was a growing demand for the binders. Karishhma never started out wanting to be a mompreneur but with the tremendous support and appreciation of fellow moms, she realised this was a great business opportunity which would allow her to do what she loved doing best- teaching little minds. With less than a year into the enterprise, Karishhma is launching a new product almost every month. Despite the apprehension of starting a new venture, the journey has been remarkably smooth. Especi...

                      Aarti has over 19 years’ experience in the Overseas education sector. She has worked with leading organizations like IDP Education, Study Overseas and The University of Warwick India Office. When her daughter was two years old, Aarti decided to quit full time work and start working from home. She started getting clients through word of mouth and work picked up. Over the years, Aarti has diversified her work profile and now works as a freelancer for a number of organizations, dealing with research work, writing assignments and counselling. One of her main roles is as Education Consultant for Connect2Counsellors, an organization which deals with UK universities and has a select number of highly trained counsellors on board.   Writing has always been Aarti’s forte and she has completed a double Masters in English Literature and Mass Communication. She has also written blogs on a variety of topics but this was...

          Himani has been researching and helping parents with baby sleep voluntarily for the last five years. Her journey started when her firstborn, Devika, turned four months old. Himani began to read books and articles about baby sleep to try to find a way to deal with the seemingly endless sleepless nights that accompanied a newborn and educating herself about sleep science and sleep philosophies. Being a member of several parenting groups on Facebook, she found that mothers frequently posted about their children’s sleep “problems”, which she answered regularly. Himani noticed that though there were a number of groups focused on breastfeeding, baby-wearing, gentle parenting, early childhood development and feeding solids, there was no group specifically dedicated to baby sleep, even though sleep is as important as food for a baby and managing a baby’s developing sleep abilities does not necessarily come instinctively. Also, most of the information available...