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When it comes to handling money, women are often in the backseat, and married women especially so. Here’s why it’s important for them to take charge of their finances.

It was only when I got married that I realized that I was an edge case when it came to personal finance. I’d grown up in a fairly typical Indian family setup with an earning father and a homemaker mother. But what set us apart was that we were also a household that discussed finances on an everyday basis. My father ensured that we were all given individual bank accounts and taught how to operate them, and my mother made it a point to drill the importance of having one’s own source of income and not being dependent on anyone …

The technology investor’s move to pour Rs 2,000 crore into the online travel aggregator comes as a surprise. Can ixigo live up to the promise of becoming India’s next big travel platform?
As more women participate in the workforce, save and don’t depend on men for advice, they appear to be a different target group for financial advice and investments. Then why hasn’t it become a viable startup idea?
The nearly two-decade-old investment platform will not make any angel or pre-seed investments anymore. Its closure tells the larger story of the state of angel investing in India.