Pooja Arambhan

Pooja Arambhan is the Co-founder & CEO of iiV Health Solutions Pvt Ltd and iiV Agri Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Both focused on breakthrough technologies in Preventive Health Tech & Agri Tech from Israel for the Indian,South Asian and GCC market.

Her HealthTech company will be pioneering the Tech space for a patented technology in Peripheral Artery Disease for Diabetics in 18 districts in Maharashtra to be rolled out in second quarter of 2023.

Her Health Tech Company was chosen the be accelerated by the Cornell-Maha60 Accelerator Program. The first of its kind accelerator in the country by Cornell and Department of Industries, Maharashtra fully sponsored by the Government of Maharashtra.

She holds a BLS/ LLB from Mumbai University and a Diploma in Cyber Laws from Asian School of Cyber Laws. She is admitted as a member to the Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa.

Thereafter, Ms. Arambhan received a full scholarship for 1 Female Indian Entrepreneur from India for an MBA in Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Strategy from Tel Aviv University, Israel. She has considerable experience and is well connected within the start-up nation including Government, Quasi Government and Embassies. She isan Israel-Asia Leaders Fellow and a Parasol Foundation Trust scholar.

Ms. Arambhan was the youngest invitee from India at the UN Womens’ Empowerment Principles Summit at the UN HQ in New York in 2014. She has been a speaker and mentor at various forums for Womens’ Empowerment.

She has been recognised for her efforts for Womens’ Empowerment as mentor and speaker at various forums. She has been instrumental in actively building an inclusive environment in the Corporate space and has played a key role in the Arambhan School of Entrepreneurship & Excellence offering mentoring and internship to students across industries.

Ms. Arambhan is also a Mentor at the Global Vital Voices Mentoring Walk an international initiative by the Red Dot Foundation supporting young women in 2018 and 2022.

She was invited as Jury member for Good Pitch Deccan2021 a social impact documentary film festival and has been an active supporter of various social impact initiatives including the film “Writing with Fire” that was nominated at the Oscars 2021 in the category of Best Documentary Feature.

Ms. Arambhan is also Director of Arambhan Group that has diversified business activities including Shipping C&F, Offshore Hospitality, Project Management, Cross Border M&A Consultancy, Homeland Security & Tech transfer.

Ms. Arambhan led as co-producer and knowledge partner the Maharashtra Infrastructure Summit 2013 inaugurated by the CM of the Maharashtra and Co-produced Mousiqui, a musical portraying the various stages of life through classical Indian music.

Ms. Arambhan was a Committee Member of the FICCI FLO Start Up Cell, Mumbai Chapter ( 21-22) and Member of the FICCI Young Leaders’ Program, Maharashtra.

Ms. Arambhan was awarded the Women Power in Health Tech Award 2022 at the 7th Annual Women Power Summit & Awards at BSE earlier this year.

Ms. Arambhan is currently a Research Fellow at S P Jain School of Global Management undertaking research in Succession Planning in Family owned Businesses for her Doctorate in Business Administration. She has been invited to present her research paper at the 66th International Congress for Small Business (ICSB) World Conference in Washington in July 2022 that was published in the Journal of International Council for Small Business in August 2022.

Ms. Arambhan was amongst the 21 chosen entrepreneurs invited to showcase their technology innovations at the 108th Indian Science Congress (ISC), Pride of India – Mega Science Expo at Nagpur in Jan 2023. These start ups were selected by Dr. Harshdeep Shriram Kamble (IAS) – Principal Secretary of Maharashtra (for Industries) andthe event was inaugurated by the Hon’ble PM Shri Narendra Modi and visited by Maharashtra CM, Shri. Eknath Shinde along with other notable dignitaries.

Ms. Arambhan has been invited to SEIGOP 2023, Singapore to present her paper on Sustainable & Frugal Methods for Intergenerational survival of Family Businesses in March 2023 which will be published by Springer publications.

Ms. Arambhan took office in April 2023 as the youngest Vice-Chairperson at FICCI FLO, Mumbai 23-24, Asia’s largest Women’s’ entrepreneurial organisation; established in 1983, a division of FICCI – the apex body of Industry and Commerce along side Chairperson, Mrs. Archana Khosla Burman, Founding Partner, Vertices Partners and Senior Vice-Chairperson, Mrs. Neeta Lulla, a renowned fashion designer.Pooja is also a core member of the FICCI National Start Up cell led by Dr. Aarti Gupta that is actively building the start up ecosystem with Certified Mentorship programs, Spurring entrepreneurship and Angel investing.

She was also awarded the FICCI FLO, Mumbai Trailblazer award in Health Tech Entrepreneurship 2023 for her contributions and innovations in the preventive health tech space.