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Dr. Vritika Agrawal launches DermaCute clinic in Mumbai
MUMBAI: India’s booming medical-aesthetics market has a new entrant with attitude. Dr. Vritika Agrawal, dermatologist and clinician, has opened DermaCute clinic in Andheri West, marking her move from consulting room to corner office — and adding momentum to the rise of women-led healthcare entrepreneurship.
Armed with an MBBS and MD in dermatology, Dr. Agrawal steps into business as founder and ceo of DermaCute, a specialist clinic positioned at the intersection of evidence-based medicine, aesthetic science and personalised care. Her pitch is simple but pointed: skin care grounded in science, delivered with empathy, minus the hype.
“DermaCute is not about surface beauty,” says Dr. Agrawal. “It is about trust, precision and treatments that genuinely work — tailored to the individual, not trends.”
The launch lands at a time when India’s medical-aesthetic sector is expanding at speed, projected to grow at more than 16 per cent CAGR over the next decade. Demand is being driven by technology-led treatments, rising disposable incomes and a shift towards specialist-led, boutique clinics — away from one-size-fits-all hospital chains.
DermaCute reflects that shift. The clinic offers skin rejuvenation and anti-ageing programmes, acne and scar management, laser-based pigmentation correction and hair removal, non-invasive body contouring, facial enhancement and personalised medical facials. The emphasis is on measurable outcomes, safety and long-term skin health, delivered in a refined, clinic-first setting.
Dr. Agrawal’s move also underscores a broader change in the industry’s power structure. Women founders are increasingly shaping India’s beauty and wellness economy, bringing clinical credibility, ethical frameworks and patient-first thinking to a sector long dominated by corporate roll-ups and celebrity branding.
By positioning dermaCute as science-backed and results-driven, Dr. Agrawal is betting that today’s patients want more than glow-ups — they want transparency, data and doctors who stay personally accountable.
The ambition does not stop at Andheri. Dr. Agrawal plans to scale DermaCute into a national brand, building a portfolio of specialist clinics focused on dermatology, aesthetics and holistic wellbeing. Growth, she insists, will be measured and medical — not franchised at the expense of standards.
As India’s appetite for advanced skin care accelerates, DermaCute enters the market with a clear message: clinical rigour sells, ethics endure and confidence, when done properly, is good business.
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Samsung certifies 1,000 Maharashtra students in AI and coding
The South Korean electronics giant marks its first large-scale skilling push in the state, with women making up nearly half the national programme’s enrolment
PUNE: Samsung has put 1,000 students in Maharashtra through a certified training programme in artificial intelligence and coding, the largest such drive the South Korean electronics company has run in the state and a signal that corporate India’s skilling ambitions are moving well beyond the boardroom brochure.
The certifications were awarded under Samsung Innovation Campus (SIC), the company’s flagship corporate social responsibility programme, which launched in India in 2022 with the stated aim of democratising access to future-technology education. The 1,000 graduates were drawn from four institutions: 127 from Savitribai Phule Pune University, 373 from Pimpri Chinchwad University, 250 from D.Y. Patil University’s Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology and 250 from Anjuman-I-Islam’s Kalsekar Technical Campus. All completed training in either AI or coding and programming, the two disciplines Samsung has identified as the critical pillars of the digital economy.
The programme does not stop at technical training. Soft-skills development and career-readiness modules are baked into the curriculum, a deliberate attempt to close the gap between what universities teach and what employers actually want.
“India’s digital growth story will ultimately be shaped by the quality of its talent pipeline,” said Shubham Mukherjee, head of CSR and corporate communications at Samsung Southwest Asia. “As technologies like AI move from the periphery to the core of industries, skilling must evolve from basic training to building real-world capability. This milestone in Maharashtra reflects how industry and academia can come together to create a future-ready workforce that is both globally competitive and locally relevant.”
The Maharashtra drive sits within a rapidly scaling national effort. Samsung Innovation Campus trained 20,000 young people across India in 2025, hitting its stated target for the year. Women account for 48 per cent of national enrolments, a figure the company cites as evidence of its push for an inclusive technology ecosystem. The programme is implemented in partnership with the Electronics Sector Skills Council of India and the Telecom Sector Skill Council.
Samsung, which is marking 30 years in India this year, runs SIC alongside two other initiatives, Samsung Solve for Tomorrow and Samsung DOST, as part of a broader effort to build what it calls a generation of innovators with both the technical depth and the problem-solving mindset to thrive in a fast-moving digital world.
A thousand certified students is a tidy headline. Whether they find jobs that match their new skills is the harder question, and the one that will ultimately determine whether corporate skilling programmes like this one are genuine pipelines or well-photographed gestures.
