The Winpe Leadership Summit & Awards 2025, marked a milestone in Winpe’s five-year commitment to fostering gender equity in the Private Equity and Venture Capital (PEVC) industry. The Winpe Leadership Summit featured insightful knowledge-sharing sessions led by prominent industry leaders, offering women investors and entrepreneurs unparalleled perspectives and valuable networking opportunities to fuel their growth. Meanwhile, the Winpe Leadership Awards recognized the continued efforts of individuals and firms that are paving the way for a more equitable ecosystem in PEVC. These leaders have demonstrated unwavering dedication to creating a lasting impact and ensuring a future of opportunity for all.

WLSA 2025 Agenda:
  • Panel Discussions, Closed Door Sessions, and Training
  • Pitching Clinic for Young Women Entrepreneurs
  • High-quality interactions for women investors and entrepreneurs
  • Women Entrepreneur Mela
  • The Annual Winpe Awards 2025, followed by cocktails and dinner

Why Attended?

The Winpe Leadership Summit 2025 in Mumbai was an extraordinary gathering, bringing together global business leaders, investors, and entrepreneurs for an impactful day of networking, knowledge exchange, and insightful discussions on the future of the Private Equity and Venture Capital industry. Held on March 20, 2025, at Taj Lands End, the summit offered:
Thought leadership on the evolving investing ecosystem
Opportunities for Women Founders
Masterclasses on pitching and entrepreneurial success
Unrivaled networking opportunities with industry influencers
Stay connected for upcoming events (link to upcoming events) and updates as we continue our commitment to fostering a more inclusive industry.

Insights & Inspiration

Industry-leading investors and entrepreneurs shared their insights on building businesses, shaping the industry, and growing the ecosystem.

Networking Sessions

Valuable opportunities to connect with industry leaders, fundraisers, founders, and entrepreneurs driving innovation.

Awards Night

Our awardees set the standard for building gender-inclusive teams through effective strategies that drive both growth and profitability.

Summit Sponsor

Gold Partner & Dinner Sponsor

Silver Partner

Associate Sponsor

Ecosystem Partner

Industry Partner

Verification Partner

Gamification Partner

Gifting Partners

About Winpe

Winpe is a pioneering not-for-profit platform established with the objective of enhancing gender diversity within investing & entrepreneurship, increasing the participation of women as investors, capital allocators, and entrepreneurs. Winpe uses a multi-pronged strategy to achieve its objective, with an emphasis on building the ecosystem to support gender balance. Winpe’s work includes supporting women investors, entrepreneurs and aspirants with resources like mentorship, allyship, networking, leadership development workshops, career bootcamps and masterclasses. Launched in Feb 2020 at the outset of the pandemic, Winpe has already organized more than 35 events that attracted approximately 9000 registrants from 400+ firms and were polled with an average satisfaction score of 96%.
 
In parallel, Winpe has brought together PEVC firms and PEVC backed companies committed to achieving gender balance to form a common agenda. With these firms, Winpe pursues outcome-oriented changes to make the work environment equitable and transform the culture, practices and policies in the ecosystem. Winpe has worked with 40+ firms and its members include DFls, large pensions, global and regional PEVC firms and leading advisors.

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