Jury led by Rishad Premji to select winners for 12th Economic Times Startup Awards
An elite panel of industry leaders will decide the winners across various categories, including the coveted Startup of the Year.
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A distinguished jury led by Wipro's Rishad Premji is meeting to select winners for the 12th edition of The Economic Times Startup Awards, recognizing excellence across categories like innovation, social enterprise, and the Startup of the Year.
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Why It Matters
The Economic Times Startup Awards is in its 12th year of recognizing entrepreneurial excellence in India.
Today, an elite panel, led by Wipro’s Rishad Premji, enters the jury room to pick the winners of the 12th edition of The Economic Times Startup Awards, the country's most treasured recognition for entrepreneurial excellence.
The star-studded jury comprises Paytm founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Myntra and Curefit cofounder Mukesh Bansal, Flipkart and Navi cofounder Sachin Bansal, Caratlane cofounder Mithun Sacheti, Swiggy Instamart CEO Nandita Sinha, Snap CBO Ajit Mohan, Anthropic India MD Irina Ghose, Wingify and Lossfunk founder Paras Chopra, Urban Company cofounder and CEO Abhiraj Singh Bhal and Aditya Birla Group director Aryaman Vikram Birla.
In a dozen years, ETSA has put itself on the pedestal as the most insightful spotlight on the new-age industry. Be it a Gen Z brainwave or the hard-earned accomplishments built on one’s own devices, social inventions, genius investors, unstoppable women and entrepreneurs who just won’t give up — a curated few find themselves on the ETSA shortlist.
The most precious of the lot remains the Startup of the Year award.
This year's nominees are:
Bootstrap Champ Suta Habuild Urban Vault Melento D’You
Top Innovator Theranautilus EtherealX 4baseCare QNu Labs Agrani Labs
Comeback Kid Shreya Mishra, Neeraj Jain, Nikhil Nahar Abhishek Bansal, Vaibhav Khandelwal, Praharsh Chandra, Gaurav Jaithlia Anil Goteti Mukund Jha Ranjeet Pratap Singh, Sankaranarayanan Devarajan, Sahradayi Modi
Best on Campus Qosmic Armatrix Panoculon Labs Dream Aerospace Plenome Technologies
Woman Ahead Prachi Dharani Malini Adapureddy Pallavi Mohadikar Minu Margeret Ankur Dahiya Pallavi Shrivastava
Social Enterprise CureBay Varaha Karo Sambhav Padcare Labs Cornext
Midas Touch Shailesh Lakhani Manu Chandra Anu Hariharan Mukesh Bansal
Startup of the Year Porter Skyroot Aerospace Rapido Meesho Groww Sarvam
Open Questions
- When will the final winners be announced?
