Sandhya Mendonca has a career of firsts, from being the first woman journalist on the crime beat to the Festival Director of Indias first multi-arts Festival curated by women. A journalist-turned-media-entrepreneur, Mendonca is a prolific writer, editor and publisher through her company Raintree Media. She has recently edited and published the Augmented Reality embedded Innovate Bengaluru, which features the top 100 innovators and enablers in Bengaluru's ecosystem.