Hyderabad: Fifteen-year-old entrepreneur Ayesha Siddique from Warangal presented her start-up idea at We-Hub (Women Entrepreneurs Hub), to help the elderly identify medicine by colour or by the first letter based on prescription.
“She captured our interest by just saying ‘I have start-up’. Unlike parents putting up Class 10 kids, she was in charge of the entire thing, which is startling. She wants to simplify the identification of medicines, which is relevant to all us”, said Ms Deepthi Ravula, chief executive officer of WE-Hub
Ayesha who recently took admission in Intermediate in the MPC stream, is working along with her father to develop the product, Virosphere. “She has seen the pain her grandma endured to identify the tablets and constantly going around with prescriptions to doctors”, said her father Basheer Mohammed, a software engineer himself.
The decision on boarding Ayesha or the other start-ups onto We-Hub hasn’t been made yet. “We will be discussing and may be doing virtual mentoring. For Ayesha we want to complement in any manner so that she can continue her education and entrepreneurial activity without feeling the stress”, said Ms Ravula
Start-ups from Warangal and Suryapet in TS, Andhra Pradesh, Mumbai, Pune and Jabalpur took part in the final selection process, which included a mother-daughter duo and woman returning to the workforce.
As many as 290 applications were received of which 62 start-ups were shortlisted for final round.
