leap.club, a Gurugram-based community-led professional network for women, announced that it has raised $340,000 in its Pre-Seed round of funding.
The funding round saw participation from Whiteboard Capital (Sandeep Tandon’s VC fund), FirstCheque, Artha India Ventures, Sweta Rau (Founder, White Ventures), Amrish Rau (CEO Pinelabs, Founder Citrus Pay), Deepak Abbot (Former SVP, Paytm), and Harpreet Singh Grover (Co-founder, Co-Cubes) among others.
Founded by Ragini Das and Anand Sinha, leap.club aims to create a private professional network for women with the aim of employing them in leadership roles across organisations.
The founders Ragini Das and Anand Sinha in a joint statement, said, “We are a community-led professional network with a simple mission — more women in leadership positions. We are creating a private network that focuses on professional development and future goals and not on what we have done in the past. We are excited to shape the future of work by making specialised tools available to established and future business leaders with an aim to close the leadership gap.”
“Economic data suggests a clear positive correlation between higher participation of women in the workforce and a country’s development and at Whiteboard, we believe entrepreneurial initiatives like leap.club are necessary to improve the growth possibilities of women in the workplace,” added Sandeep Tandon, Managing Partner at Whiteboard Capital.
leap.club said its paid membership is designed for women to strengthen their journey into senior leadership. With 4,000+ women on the waitlist. The startup opened memberships in May 2020 and has already onboarded founding members in Delhi NCR from a variety of companies and industries like Uber, TikTok, Dunzo, EY, NDTV, Group M, Tinder, Invest India, Google along with founders of startups like Josh Talks, Fittr.
It claims that members get access to exclusive benefits like exec coaching, focus on mental wellness, tools to upskill, a stronger relevant network, and more.
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