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At sixteen she helped automate her family's textile business. Now every piece she makes is deliberately unrepeatable. Inside The Corner Studio.

Nearly ninety founders came to a Dehradun workspace for an afternoon of structured networking. What they remember is a game. The Unhu Founders Meet at Iksana Workspaces, Doon IT Park. A note of thanks None of this happens without a room, and none of it happens well without the people who prepare that room long before anyone arrives. Unhu is deeply thankful to Shantanu and the entire team at Iksana Workspaces. They gave us one of the most important meetups of our year and trea

Restaurant food is built for everyone at once. Monika Sharma built her kitchen for one person at a time, and never pretended otherwise. There is a kind of food that is made for no one in particular. The same oil, the same spice, the same recipe, whoever happens to be at the table. It feeds a crowd and remembers none of them. Monika Sharma spent years noticing that gap, and then built her whole working life in the opposite direction: meals cooked fresh each morning, adjusted t

Most founders start with a problem to solve. Shivani started with her own exhaustion, and a small thing she made just for herself. It started with her own exhaustion, not a plan Shivani had spent a long stretch in the corporate world when she noticed how depleted life had become: last-minute chaos, constant pressure, almost no room to pause. Aromesa, she is clear, never began with a business plan or a problem statement. It began out of curiosity, an attempt to build small poc

Ravi Dhawan, founder of Matrica Docutech Some companies become visible because customers interact with them every day. Others create impact quietly, by making entire systems work better behind the scenes. Most people never think about the infrastructure behind a loan approval, a compliance process, or the paperwork that keeps financial services moving. Yet those invisible systems shape experiences millions of people rely on every day. That is the space Ravi Dhawan has chosen

After more than two decades in design, Shraddha Negi chose not to settle into experience. She chose to build something that carried her own story. There comes a moment in every founder's life when experience is no longer enough. The question becomes whether everything learned over the years will remain a career or become the foundation for something deeply personal. For Shraddha Negi, that answer became Juicyverse. After spending more than twenty years as a textile designer,

For Aanchal Bajaj, meaningful child development is built by strengthening the entire ecosystem, not just the child. A child's future is often measured through milestones, grades, or achievements. But some founders begin with a different question: What happens when the people surrounding a child grow alongside them? That question lies at the heart of Littlecloud (Holistic Child Development Lab), where Aanchal Bajaj has built a space dedicated not only to children, but also to

For Swati Soni Verma, the biggest change this quarter was not creating something new. It was helping the right people discover what had been there all along. A product can only make an impression once someone has the chance to see it. For many founders, that is the hardest part of building a business. Not creating the product, but finding the audience that values it. For Swati Soni Verma, founder of Exemplify Jewels, this quarter marked a meaningful shift. After becoming part

For Kshitiz Gupta, the biggest breakthrough was not just higher sales. It was finding the market that truly understood the brand. BRONOMICS, a premium Indian streetwear brand. Many founders spend years trying to build momentum. Sometimes, the bigger challenge is discovering where that momentum belongs. For Kshitiz Gupta, founder of BRONOMICS, UNHU helped bring that clarity. He reflects on finding the right product-market fit and refining the direction of the brand, a shift th

For Garima Sethi, the biggest shift this quarter was not only in orders. It was in how she defines growth. For many entrepreneurs, success is easy to measure. More orders, higher revenue, better sales. But somewhere along the way, those numbers stop being the whole story. For Garima Sethi, founder of Ethnic Dust, this quarter marked a change in perspective. While her business recorded at least 25% more online orders through WhatsApp compared to the previous quarter, the more

For some founders, progress is measured not only by the business they build, but by the people they help grow along the way. Every entrepreneur reaches a point where growth stops being a solo pursuit. For Heena Dhingra, founder of Aroma Path, that point came through community. In her submission, she writes about building her business by closing clients, expanding her professional network, generating revenue, and launching new products. Yet the story she tells is not only abou

In a traditional foods market where purity is claimed by everyone, Anu Bala put a 100 percent money-back guarantee behind hers. Then she grew 20 percent in a quarter. The bet she made on her own product There are hundreds of food brands in India making promises about what goes into the packet. What is harder to find is a founder willing to stake the business on it. Anu Bala, the Haridwar-based founder of Medhansh, built her Q2 2026 quarter around exactly that. She launched a

Amita Roy isn't selling jewellery, she's selling the whole look. Inside INHANSS's Q2: a brand women return to, built on repeat customers, not impulse buys.

For Dr. Vinkle Gusain, healthcare is not about asking people to change who they are. It is about helping them rediscover what they already have. Not every healthcare practice begins with a prescription. Some begin with a simple belief that the food people have grown up eating, when understood through science, can become part of a sustainable path toward better health. That belief sits at the heart of Dr. Vinkle Gusain Integrated Health, where Dr. Vinkle Gusain has built an ev

The knowledge was already there. What Q2 2026 made clear is how many people are finally asking for it. Achintya Ayurveda and Vatsalya Lactation Centre's case for recognition Vaidya Vijeta Shukla, the Dehradun-based Ayurveda doctor and certified Lactation Counsellor behind Achintya Ayurveda and Vatsalya Lactation Centre, writes that this quarter she supported over 70 new mothers through their breastfeeding journeys. She also conducted a dedicated Mother's Day session for pregn

A bag and woollens brand from Gurgaon spent May proving it could sell direct to consumers. By the end of June, it was proving something harder: that retailers and marketplaces would carry it too. The Nomination Nishant Pande, founder of Kule Kule Dressing and Decor Pvt Ltd, has filed two rounds of material with Unhu's nominations process this year, in May and again in June. The brand makes handmade cotton jacquard travel bags and pure wool products from rabbit, merino, and ya

Most growth claims get more modest after a strong quarter. Nandini Kakkar's nomination form for Midziyo Interior Design Studio sets the next target higher than the one she just hit. The Nomination Kakkar, founder of the Dehradun-based interiors firm Midziyo Interior Design Studio, submitted her case to Unhu's nominations process on 26 June. The studio works across residential makeovers and commercial transformations, and writes that its goal is to design spaces around "comfor

A Personality Transformation and Communication Institute in Dehradun closed out the quarter with a state-level education award already in hand, then filed paperwork for a second, separate kind of recognition: a peer nomination inside the Unhu founder community. The two don't usually arrive together, and that's what makes this submission worth reading. Shanu Agarwal's Unhu Nomination Shanu Agarwal, founder of Edge Education Genesis, submitted her entry through Unhu's Q1 2026 N

Garima Sethi spent nearly two decades in finance, including, she says, a stint as the first woman stockbroker in Uttarakhand. These days, she measures a work trip by how many days she can stay in one market, trying to tell genuine handwork from a convincing fake. Twenty years in finance, then a turn Sethi holds an MBA in finance and worked in the financial sector for almost 20 years, she says. Handicrafts were always a private passion running alongside that career: she bought

A nomination form asks what actually happened this quarter. For one Dehradun home kitchen, the answer included a newspaper calling her food the best in its category. Mona's Kitchen's case for recognition Monika Sharma, founder of the Dehradun-based home-catering brand Mona's Kitchen, writes that her biggest achievement this quarter was being recognized by the Times of India, Uttarakhand edition, as Best Home Chef. She describes it as a milestone tied to the passion and care t