As a Formula One double World Champion, two-time winner of the Le Mans 24-hour race, and victor in the FIA World Endurance Championship and the 24 Hours of Daytona, Fernando Alonso might appear to have achieved pretty much everything there is to achieve in the realm of elite motorsport.

Despite this, though, the 41-year-old Spanish legend feels he is far from done with motor racing. So, what keeps powering him onward?

Women entrepreneurs are behind a growing number of today’s most innovative start-ups across multiple industries. When it comes to raising capital to grow new ventures, though, the picture is not nearly as bright. Female founders encounter many more hurdles at the fundraising stages of their journey owing to entrenched gender biases.

Among those to have broken these biases is Michelle Kennedy. Having held top executive positions at dating platforms Badoo and Bumble, she decided to launch her own social networking app. Peanut focuses on fertility, pregnancy, motherhood and menopause. Michelle’s mission is to make her app the leading network for connecting women when they need each other most.

Reetu Gupta hadn’t slept at all. Covid-19 – recently declared a pandemic – was creating intense uncertainty the world over. Occupancy at her family’s chain of hotels across Canada, of which she was the CEO, was in freefall. However, it wasn’t the unprecedented business turmoil that was keeping her awake, as she explained in an early-morning phone call with her younger brother. All that Reetu could think about was how the pandemic was going to affect others, recalls Suraj Gupta.

She kept saying how there were already so many people suffering in the world, even before the health crisis hit. With things deteriorating so fast, she said we had to think of ways to help. I wasn’t at all surprised by her reaction; trying to assist others and make the world better is just her mentality.