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Gaurav Aggarwal
DRIVING DIGITAL INCLUSION FOR INDIAN WOMEN
With an aim to create a platform exclusively for married Indian women to be
informed, safe and empowered, the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
of Healofy, Mr. Gaurav Aggarwal leads from the front in the effort to make it a
powerful Women’s Social Network
Mr. Gaurav Aggarwal is an alumnus of
IIT Guwahati, and Healofy is his third
entrepreneurial venture. From his early
days, he has been driven by the need to make the
online world safer, more useful and empowering
for married Indian women. Along with his former
schoolmate and present co-founder, Mr. Shubham
Maheshwari, he is taking ambitious and confident
steps towards building out Healofy as a platform
for these women to come together, connect
and transact in a trusted space on the internet.
Recognising that digital communities need to
offer women not just relevant information, but
also emotional support and a strong environment
of trust, Healofy has created an exclusive womenonly
social network which seeks to empower
women by enabling them to consume relatable
regional information, create powerful content,
showcase their skills sets, and ultimately become
financially independent.
Empowering Women for Shared
Prosperity
Healofy was co-founded in September 2016 by
Mr. Aggarwal and his former schoolmate Mr.
Shubham Maheshwari. Mr. Aggarwal hails from
Delhi, and has led the Delhi chapter of Udaan,
an NGO which supports underprivileged children
through various educational workshops and
innovation-led programs. Before founding Healofy,
the duo had successfully created a platform that
addressed the need for instant access to doctors
and experts for pregnant women and mothers.
Healofy, with 3 million downloads, and 500,000
Daily Active Users (DAUs), and an additional
1.5 million monthly website users, the regionallanguage
and community-focused mobile app
connects millions of women across different
stages of life – from getting married, to becoming
mothers, and life beyond that. Today, the platform
enables women to connect and influence other
like-minded women based on similar language,
location, life-stage, as well as interests such as
fashion, food, fitness, lifestyle, learning different
skill sets, and eventually earning from home.
Catering to married women across Tier 2, 3 &
4 cities in their mother-tongue, Healofy offers
credible and relatable regional content on various
topics of women’s interests in 9 Indian regional
languages.
Under his leadership, Healofy has emerged
as India’s Largest and Fastest-Growing Women
Social Network and is continually working on its
“Under his leadership, Healofy
has emerged as India’s
Largest & Fastest-Growing
Women Social Network ”
mission “to create a vernacular social network
exclusively for Indian women to feel informed,
safe and empowered, allowing them to consume,
connect, and transact in a trusted space.”
As India prepares for the next 100 Million+
Indian women to come online, Mr. Aggarwal has
ensured that Healofy is well-positioned for the
challenge at hand and that continues to provide
a safe and empowering online environment for
married women in India.
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