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Biotech Initiative Aspiring
to Build Entrepreneurial
Skills through a Scientific
Approach
Aardra is a biotech engineer, entrepreneur and an entrepreneurship researcher.
She is the founder and Managing Director of Aeka Biochemicals Pvt. Ltd.,
the first fully women-owned environmental biotech company in India. She is
passionate about making science and entrepreneurship accessible to all those
interested in these fields, especially women.
Aardra holds an MRes in management from UCL, an MSc in management from
Warwick Business School, and a Bachelors in biotechnology and biochemical
engineering from the University of Kerala.
Aeka Biochemicals is helping to incorporate
green user friendly options which are effective,
and have a focus on urban cultivation, water
treatment, recycling, remediation or waste
management. A significant contribution towards
reducing “human footprints” on Earth.
Aardra Chandra Mouli
Aeka Biochemicals Pvt. Ltd.
Trivandrum, Kerala
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