Ankiti Bose

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Ankiti Bose
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Born (1992-07-15) 15 July 1992 (age 32)
Dehradun
NationalityFlag of India.svg  India
Alma mater St. Xavier's College, Mumbai
Employer(s) Zilingo
McKinsey & Company
Sequoia Capital
Known forFashion technology

Ankiti Bose (born 1992) is the co-founder of e-commerce start-up Zilingo. She has been featured in Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 list in 2018 as well as in Fortune's 40 Under 40 along with Bloomberg 50 in 2019. [1] On 31 March 2022, she was suspended as CEO after an attempt to raise capital raised questions about Zilingo's accounting practices, according to Bloomberg. [2] On 20 May 2022 Bose was fired from Zilingo. [3] [4]

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Early life and education

Bose is from India. [5] She completed her schooling from Cambridge School, Kandivli, Mumbai[ citation needed ]. She studied mathematics and economics at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. [6]

Career

Bose started her career working at McKinsey & Company and Sequoia Capital in Bangalore. [7] After a trip to the Chatuchak Weekend Market [8] Bose noticed that fashion markets in Southeast Asia had immense room for penetration and growth. [6] The market includes over 11,000 independent merchants lacking an online presence. [6] Whilst there was investment in improving access to the internet, Bose recognized that retailers were not trained in financing, scaling-up, website design, and procurement nor well equipped to compete with large global players. [7]

In 2015, Bose left her position as an investment analyst at Sequoia Capital to launch her own company, Zilingo. [9] Bose was twenty three when she founded Zilingo. [10] She moved to Singapore in 2016, where she developed the software and supply chain solutions. [11]

In 2019, Zilingo raised $226 million in Series D fundraising, resulting in a $970 million market value. [12] [13] As of 2019, it had over seven million active users leveraging the global platform. [7]

The China–United States trade war resulted in United States retailers leaving China, which allowed Zilingo to expand into America. [13] She has worked to source Indian fabrics for Californian factories as well as opening offices on the West Coast and East Coast. [13] At Zilingo, Bose supported a program to train women in Indonesia to create clothing, recognising that in Indonesia almost 40% of women leave the workforce after they get married. [13] [14] Zilingo set up a coaching programme to support leaders across the company. [13]

In March 2022, Bose was suspended, from Zilingo with allegations of financial misrepresentation and mismanagement, pending an investigation. Among other allegations, shareholders questioned her S$50,000 per month salary which according to her contract five years ago was S$8,500. Her management style of using intimidation to extract compliance in her daily working in Zilingo was also called into question. [15]

Bose has spoken at the World Economic Forum in India. [16]

Awards and honours

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