Aditi Avasthi

Aditi Avasthi is an Indian entrepreneur who is the founder and CEO of Embibe, an educational technology company, based in Bangalore. Economic Times Prime recognized her as the "Accenture Vaahini Innovator of The Year" and was awarded for it in Economic Times Prime Women Leadership Awards 2019 (ETPWLA'19). Education Congress chose her as the "Woman Entrepreneur of the Year" in 2019, and she was chosen the 'Woman Of The Year’ by Vogue in 2018. She was also ranked among BBC's top 100 Women in 2017.

After her MBA, she joined Barclays as Deputy Chief of Product and Strategy Head for their mobile banking division in Africa. Later moving to Delaware, USA, in the year 2012, she worked at Barclaycard as the Director of Corporate Development in Mobile Commerce Business for an year. At Barclays, Avasthi contributed to overall mobile business strategy, and also led the design of the business cases on the monetization of mobile commerce.

In 2012, she founded Embibe, with $700,000 funding gathered from family and friends, and she received further investments from Kalaari Capital and Lightbox Ventures during the following year. which is a personalized engine for education based on a knowledge graph that connects all grades' curriculum and learning context together, so students can achieve their targeted learning outcomes. The platform also provides services based on the Joint Entrance Examination – Advanced. Later she conducted a successful corporate round with Reliance Industries in 2018. In April 2018, Reliance Industries Limited announced an investment of $180 million in Embibe.

Avasthi received a bachelor's degree in engineering from Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology in 2003, and received her MBA in finance and marketing from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 2010.

Aditi Avasthi was born in Ludhiana, Punjab, India on 10 December 1981. She is the daughter of Arun Kumar and Veena Avasthi. She had studied in multiple schools in India. In high school, she was intrigued by personalized education platforms.