Female Pioneers Lead the Way in Sixth Annual Payoneer Entrepreneurship Awards
March 08 2022 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Payoneer (NASDAQ: PAYO), the commerce technology company
powering payments and growth for the new global economy, announced
today the winners of its sixth annual Entrepreneurship Awards.
Outstanding digital entrepreneurs from Australia, India, Israel,
Mexico, and China have scooped the honors in Payoneer’s
Entrepreneurship Awards – with women winning 60% of the available
awards. A total of 4,315 entrepreneurs from 170 countries entered
the prestigious awards, which build on Payoneer’s position at the
forefront of digital payments to celebrate sales growth,
intelligent business, and creativity.
The five winners are true Payoneers, breaking down borders and
embracing technology in a truly global ecosystem. They are:
- Disruptor of the Year: Candice Deepler – Founder,
TrueSooth, Australia
- Socially Responsible Business of the Year: Archana
Garodia Gupta – Founder and CEO, Touchstone, India
- eCommerce Business of the Year: Lior Pozin – Co-founder
and CEO, AutoDS, Israel
- Freelance Business of the Year: Guadalupe Rincón –
Director of Content Production and Distribution, Ideaphilos
Comunicación, Mexico
- Entrepreneur of the Year: Wen Xu – CEO, Laifug,
China
Keren Levy, President at Payoneer, said: “Our congratulations go
to all the winners, and I’d add that on International Women’s Day,
it’s fantastic to see most of our awards going to pioneering,
ambitious women. Once again, the Payoneer Entrepreneurship Awards
showcased some of the world’s best digital entrepreneurs. We are in
awe of their efforts and are honored to serve them. They are
tapping into a universe of opportunity that is growing because of
digitalization, creating unbounded potential to build successful
businesses and leave legacies.”
She added: “We are grateful to all the entrants who shared their
stories with us. Each one inspires and motivates us to keep working
hard to help more small businesses make an impact on the
world.”
Full details about all of the award
winners are available on the Payoneer blog.
Disruptor of the Year: Candice Deepler –
Founder, TrueSooth, Australia
Created by women supporting women, TrueSooth
designs and delivers breast pain relief products. Its founder,
Candice Deepler, struggled with her own breastfeeding journey,
while the loss of one of her closest friends to breast cancer
inspired the company’s post-breast surgery recovery set.
TrueSooth made its first sale in November
2020. By Q2 of 2021, it was experiencing 650% growth. “Mediocrity
is not an option,” said Deepler. She added: “Starting my own
business has given me a sense of pride and, truthfully, shocked me
into the belief that so much is possible if you just take the first
step, then another, and then another.”
Socially Responsible Business of the Year:
Archana Garodia Gupta – Founder and CEO, Touchstone, India
Launched in 1996, Touchstone is the oldest
national Indian ethnic costume jewelry brand. Its founder, Archana
Garodia Gupta, aims to simultaneously preserve Indian heritage and
empower women.
“We hope more businesses like ours will spur
an increase in handicraft exports from India, provide employment to
rural artisans, and preserve our intangible craft heritage,” said
Gupta. “Since we’ve made our products available in international
markets, our business has experienced a 15x growth in exports over
the last four years.”
Freelance Business of the Year: Guadalupe
Rincón– Director of Content Production and Distribution, Ideaphilos
Comunicación , Mexico
Former Telemundo producer and production
director Guadalupe Rincón joined Ideaphilos Comunicación in 2019
with a dream of “creating jobs, helping entrepreneurs achieve their
goals, and making more successful businesses throughout the
world.”
Three years later, she is certainly achieving
her ambitions. In 2021, Ideaphilos Comunicación enjoyed 500%
growth, serving clients in the US and Canada from its base in
Mexico City. Rincón said: “We want to focus on this award being a
positive example for young people, contributing to forming a more
fair, equal, and human society built on respect and tolerance.”
About Payoneer
Payoneer is the world's go-to partner for digital commerce,
everywhere. From borderless payments to boundless growth, Payoneer
promises any business, in any market, the technology, connections
and confidence to participate and flourish in the new global
economy.
Since 2005, Payoneer has been imagining and engineering a truly
global ecosystem so the entire world can realize its potential.
Powering growth for customers ranging from aspiring entrepreneurs
in emerging markets to the world's leading digital brands like
Airbnb, Amazon, Google, Upwork, and Walmart, Payoneer offers a
universe of opportunities, open to you.
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