Designing A Growth Strategy

Gita Ramanan, 35, Co-Founder & CEO Design Cafe

• Base Bangalore

• Initial capital Rs 1 crore

• Total funding $35mn

• 2018 order booking Rs 60 crore

• Employees 700

• Clients/Projects Over 5,000

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When 22-year-old architect Gita Ramanan stepped into a meeting room one afternoon to make a presentation to 18 men seated around the table, she was asked: “When is your boss coming?” Having recently been selected from among 150 entrants for a competition to design a complex of 800 apartments, she gently broke it to them that she was in charge.