Winpe Leadership Summit and Awards (WLSA) 2026

The Winpe Leadership Summit and Awards (WLSA) 2026 is Winpe’s annual leadership gathering. It is the defining moment each year when leaders across India’s private equity and venture capital ecosystem come together to reflect on progress, celebrate collective achievement, and shape what comes next.

WLSA 2026 is both an institutional milestone and a celebration. It brings together our friends, partners, champions, and supporters — the community that has helped build momentum for change — to take stock of how far we have come and to chart the way forward toward a stronger, more diverse investing ecosystem.

At its core, WLSA embodies the belief: Diversity is Now.
Not aspirational. Not incremental. But active, visible, and shaping capital decisions in real time.

Through candid conversations, institutional reflection, and our Annual Leadership Awards, this year, we spotlight Diversity in Action — recognising the individuals, firms, and portfolio companies who are translating commitment into measurable progress across the Indian PE-VC ecosystem.

Grounded in substance and strengthened by community, WLSA is where leadership is recognised, partnerships are reinforced, and the next phase of progress takes shape.

View the WLSA 2026 Agenda Here  

 

Why Attend WLSA 2026?

Insights & Inspiration

Hear from industry-leading investors and entrepreneurs. Learn how they are building their businesses, strengthening the ecosystem, and embedding diversity and inclusion into leadership and growth strategies.

Networking Opportunity

Elevate your professional network by engaging with industry leaders, fundraisers, founders, and entrepreneurs who are advancing innovation while championing diversity and inclusive leadership.

Awards Night

Hear our awardees how they hold forth on their winning strategies for building gender-inclusive teams without having to sacrifice growth and profits.

Engage in senior-level dialogue

Participate in substantive conversations that move beyond intent to implementation.

Shape what comes next

Align with emerging standards of leadership and help define the future of a more diverse and accountable investing ecosystem.

WLSA is where the bar for diversity in PE-VC is raised — where leadership is recognised, standards are redefined, and the future of Indian investing takes shape.

Hear What Our Past Attendees Say About WLSA

Satish Mandhana | Eversource Capital
Anjali Sosale | Waterbridge Ventures
Vivek Khemani | Quantiphi

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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