Meena Ganesh, 

Before Ganesh started Portea in 2013, there was no standard model in operation for in-home medical care, with most sick people relying on fragmented mom-and-pop attendant services that were not always reliable or backed by proper training. Ganesh has scaled up quickly with a network that runs across 24 cities, managed by 3,000 employees who make 60,000 home visits. She plans to add 5,000 more employees and ramp up to a total of 50 cities in the next two years. In the past year, Portea also started running health-care services for Medanta, Fortis, Columbia Asia, and Max Healthcare. Ganesh, who is into her third company with husband K. Ganesh, will need to stay put at Portea longer to justify investor faith in the company.