Co-Founder and CEO at Square Yards, Kanika Gupta Shori, has broken many a glass ceiling en route towards making Square Yards the biggest and swiftest proptech aggregator in the country today. Her writing questions the very impact of the glass ceiling and the conformity of women to the same. Kanika Gupta Shori bravely calls out for today’s women to dream big and create their own niches while emphasizing that the rules of success should be same for both men and women just like the rules of failure are similar for everyone. She also writes about how there are more Sheroes rising in India and who will ultimately shatter the glass ceiling with their persistence and talent.
Kanika Gupta Shori has been featured in the list of annual 100 Emerging Voices of 2019 by YourStory as a thought leader who has been making a sizable difference towards encouraging women to help each other while also calling for them to step up and make their presence felt. Kanika Gupta Shori is an alumnus from Wharton Business School along with being a CFA Level 2 candidate, possessing 11+ years of banking and entrepreneurial experience (entertainment and event management). She is actively involved in initiatives for women empowerment and the welfare of children. From Young Achiever of 2014 to Women Icon of 2017, Kanika Gupta Shori has won several accolades for her path-breaking journey towards achieving success and her visionary and dynamic leadership. The women helping women ideology theory is strongly advocated by her as an instrument of change in Indian business.
Square Yards is a technology-enabled, global real estate aggregator and India’s largest player for primary residential real estate. It’s subsidiary Square Capital is one of the largest marketplace for secured mortgages in India. Square Yards platform offers an integrated consumer experience & covers the full real-estate journey from search, discovery to research, transactions, home loans and post-sales service – fully integrating buyers to an extensive network of 500+ partner real estate developers, and 90+ banks & NBFCs. Square Yards is led by accomplished professionals, ex-bankers, and Ivy school alumni and is backed by the competence of more than 2500 employees in 30 cities and ten countries.