Top 10 Malaysian Female Entrepreneurs

1. Cheryl Yeoh, CEO of Malaysian Global Innovation & Creativity Center (MaGIC)

After graduating from Cornell University in New York, Cheryl and her ex-classmates starts their free web service to keep track of daily deals from websites and known as CityPockets. Cheryl has won numerous notable accolades throughout the years. Passionate about building great entrepreneurs, she was appointed to become the first CEO of MaGIC in April 2014.

( read more : http://mymagic.my/en/ )

2. Ai Ching Goh, Co-Founder, Piktochart

Ai Ching and her friend founded Piktochart in 2011 after they both resigned from their day jobs. They create web app - Piktochart to help people put their information into visual stories (info graphics). In this past few years, Piktochart has won a number of awards and this platform has been used by over 10,000 businesses worldwide.

( read more : https://piktochart.com/our-team/ )

3. Sylvia Yin, Chief Marketer, Shoppr

She developed Shoppr as an online store aggregator app that gives users clothing recommendations, but now Shoppr has become a place for girls to share their fashion style and get inspired by fashion around them. The team has won numbers of awards such as Angelhack Kuala Lumpur and D3 Hackathon. 

( read more : https://shopprapp.com/ )

4. Vivy Sofinas Yusof, Founder of FashionValet

FashionValet is one of Malaysia's online fashion e-commerce website and it was kick-started with RM100,000 wit only 10 local brands.  Today, the platform has more that 300 brands from across Southeast Asia. FashionValet also achieved the RM10 million revenue mark and secured a multi million dollar investment led by Elixir Capital, a global private equity firm based in Silicon Valley, California. 

( read more : http://www.fashionvalet.com/ )

5. Jes Min Lua, General Manager & Founder, RecomN.com

RecomN.com founded in 2014 and  serves as an online platform that list trustworthy and reliable service providers around Malaysia. It also serves as a social recommendation platform that links users to service providers that their friends trust and recommend. Today, this platform has recommended over 1,500 service professionals to customers all over Malaysia.

( read more : https://www.recomn.com/ )

6. Shir Mein Leong, Co-founder, DeliverEat

In April 2012, Shir Mein Leon co-founded DeliverEat, Penang's first doorstep food delivery that enables anyone to enjoy variety of food from Western to local food. Currently, there are more than 150 restaurant available on DeliverEat. Apart from that, DeliverEat was also one of the top 20 finalist for Alliance Bank BizSmart.

( read more : http://jom.delivereat.my/ )

7. Kam Ling Fong, Founder, CLOSETStyles

CLOSETStyles is a marketplace apps that enables women to buy and sell pre-loved clothes. the start up was one of the winners of the five-day Alpha Start ups pre-accelerator app launched in the Apple App Store, they have more than 100 brands available ranging from Zara to Hermes.

( read more : https://shop.closetstyles.co/my )

8. Rachel Koay, Co-Founder, Queen’s Hostel

Queen's Hostel is a type of luxury hostel for female backpackers. This budget-friendly accommodation is strictly meant for ladies only and the hostel provides girl things like hair straighteners and OPI nail lacquers. Just 4 months in to Queen's opening, the hostel has been placed second on TripAdvisor with glowing reviews. 

( read more : https://www.facebook.com/queenshostel.my/ )

9. Jesrina Arshad, CEO & Founder, PurelyB.com

PurelyB is a one-stop portal for every healthy need and the websites is aimed to make healthy living easy via guides to different healthy restaurants, tips, recipes and online consultant with panel of certified experts. this websites has been success and it boost spectacular figure of 10,000 followers in just its first month. 

( read more : https://www.purelyb.com/ )

10. Hooi Ling Tan, Co-founder, MyTeksi

Hooi Ling Tan founded MyTeksi or know as GrabTaxi with her friend, Anthony Tan in 2012. From its humble days as a small company, currently the app has a presence in 26 cities with over 110,000 drivers across the Southeast Asian region. MyTeksi or GrabTaxi's total funding has increased to approximately US$700 million making it one of the best funded start ups in history of Southeast Asia. 

( read more : https://www.grab.com/my/taxi/ )

source: https://vulcanpost.com/395341/10-remarkable-female-entrepreneurs-conquer-startup-scene-malaysia/