Pooja is the recipient of the ‘Women Transforming India’ award by the Govt of India and the UN for her work as an entrepreneur and educator over the last 2 decades.

She is currently the co-founder and COO of Avishkaar which is a platform to support children learn next-gen tech skills like Robotics, AI, IoT, and Coding. Avishkaar is her 3rd start-up and has been named in the top 100 disruptive start-ups to watch out for worldwide by Analytics India. Her last start-up, Intellitots was in the early years of education space and was acquired by Founding Years. She worked at Adobe in the Bay Area for many years where she managed the Acrobat product marketing team. Pooja graduated from IIT Delhi with B-tech in Chemical Engineering and later did her MBA from INSEAD, France.
She invests in women-led companies and supports women founders through the SheEO club, an organization she founded a few years ago. She is one of the founders of Plaksha University. She reads widely from fantasy to neuroscience, loves music, sings, and is learning to play the piano.