Vineeta Singh is an Indian well-known entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of Sugar Cosmetics. She has also received many awards related to her entrepreneurship. Read further to know more about her career, personal life, net worth, and more.
Quick Bio
Vineeta Singh was born in 1983 in Anand, Gujarat, India. She is currently 41 years old. She belongs to a well-educated family. Her father, Tej P. Singh is a biophysicist at the All India Institutes of Medical Sciences, and her mother holds a PhD.
Education
She completed her schooling at Delhi Public School, R. K. Puram in 2001. Singh then enrolled in the Indian Institutes of Technology, Madras. From IIT, Madras, she completed her electrical engineering studies and received her bachelor’s degree in 2005. Later, she earned an MBA from theIndian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad in 2007.
Personal Life
She married IIM Ahmedabad fellow student, Kaushik Mukherjee in 2011. The couple have two sons together, Vikrant Mukherjee and Ranveer Mukherjee.
Career and Profession
Singh is an entrepreneur by profession. Although she comes from a medical background family, she chose a different career path. Singh started her own business. She founded her first startup Quetzal in 2007. During her initial career, she faced many financial problems. To meet her daily expenses, she worked for a salary of 10K per month. In 2012, she started her second startup Fab-Bag, a website that offered monthly deliveries of cosmetic products. At last, she founded Sugar Cosmetics together with her husband in 2015 which changed her life. It is a cruelty-free beauty product dedicated to the Indian market.
Bollywood star Ranveer Singh invested in her company and became a ‘brand evangelist’ of Sugar Cosmetics. She is also one of the major judges or investors on the business reality show Shark Tank India which started airing on SonyLiv in 2021. She also appeared on the front pages of business magazines, such as Business Today, Forbes India, and Businessworld.
Net Worth
Vineeta Singh has accumulated a net worth of approximately 300 crore from her profession as a businesswoman. She is living a very high-profile luxurious life thanks to her years of hardships, dedication, and diligence.
Awards and Recognition
Singh has received 2 Gold and 2 Silver medals for IIT Madras during the 4 Inter IIT Sports Meets attended from 2001 to 2005. Her company, Sugar Cosmetics, was awarded the Start-up of the Year award by Entrepreneur Awards, Delhi (2019), the W-Power Award by Forbes India (2021), and many more.
Social Media Presence
She is very active on social media. She owns accounts on both X and Instagram with 122K and 883K followers respectively.
Interesting Facts
- She weighs 55 Kg and stands 5’ 8” tall. She has black-colored eyes and the same hair.
- Her father, Tej Pal Singh, is renowned for his work in the fields of structure-based drug design, X-ray crystallography, and structural biology of proteins.
- She has a keen interest in sports like swimming, running, cycling, and badminton and won many badminton competitions during her college years.
- She rejected a lucrative job offer despite an annual Rs.1 crore salary to start her own business.
- While being 6 months pregnant, she ran a total of 21 km in 2 hours 42 minutes 51 seconds in the 2018 Mumbai Marathon.
Conclusion
Vineeta Singh is a young independent Indian businesswoman. She is an inspiration for the young generation. She has proved that women can do anything like all other men.
