How India’s LinkedIn for women never took off

Two weeks ago, we wrote about SALT, the Bengaluru-based startup that wanted to redefine finance for women but is now all wound up. The three-year-old fintech firm had become a casualty of timing and found itself out of sync with the reality of India’s startup ecosystem.

But on the same theme as SALT—and around the same time too—it seems a lot of startups emerged with the idea of catering to the underserved and underrepresented demographic of women. There is a long list of startups across sectors—healthcare, finance, social networking—whose stories have a lot to say about how this important demographic …