Rising Bio Entrepreneurs of JAPAC   

According to the World Economic Forum’s 2017 Global Gender Gap Report, women are falling behind after a decade of progress. The report states that 217 years are needed to close gender gaps in economic and political spheres. The report also notes that in order to strengthen women’s economic empowerment, women entrepreneurship should be supported.

Asia is not better or worse for women entrepreneurs. Raising funding for women entrepreneurs is hard everywhere, and in Asia, women face more blunt discrimination and straight-out biased questions at pitch meetings.  Against all odds, a large number women in Singapore, China, India, South Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan and Australia are successfully working on their own ventures. BioSpectrum Asia has compiled profiles of 28 such achievers in the field of life sciences and related healthcare sectors who have successfully developed their startups in the above mentioned fields in the past 6 years.

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