Winpe Launches Rs 300 Cr Women Startup Fund

By: WE Staff | Wednesday, 13 May 2026

• Winpe launches ₹ 300 crore fund to back women-led startups
• Report reveals that women-founded startups received under 1% of India’s 2025 funding
• Winpe pushes gender-lens investing into mainstream venture capital

Winpe, pioneering non-profit platform for the private equity, is planning to rise up to ₹ 300 crore (about $31.3 million) through its maiden funds, WeWin. The fund is aimed to provide strong support for women-led startups in India and is expected to invest from the idea stage to pre-Series A rounds, focusing on untapped high-growth potentials.

 Important sectors such as financial services consumer, enterprise technology, healthcare, and emerging areas such as care economy and climate are at the center of this initiative.

Sharing her thoughts on the Private Equity and Venture Capital industry, Nupur Garg, Founder, Winpe and private equity investor said “The firm plans to back scalable businesses where women hold meaningful economic ownerships,”. She further adds that “the intent to address a historically under-identified and under-capitalised segment of the market.”

DealStreetAsia’s data revealed that women-only founded startups secured just $138.3 million in 2025, accounting for under 1% of India’s total starup funding. Also female founder participation in venture funding continued to decline from 14.6% in 2021 to 8.8% in 2024.

Nupur highlighted the gap in venture investing and said that women remain underrepresented at the investment committee level despite strong entry-level participation. “The challenge, however, lies in moving the conversation beyond impact into mainstream capital allocation... for many LPs, gender lens investing is still viewed as a side pocket rather than a core strategy. Part of our effort is to reframe that narrative,” she added.