The most coveted recognition for the country’s entrepreneurial talent, ETSA will host top policymakers, entrepreneurs, company executives and investors in an invite-only gathering of 350 guests.
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OfBusiness, a Gurgaon-based business-to-business (B2B) ecommerce platform, won the top honour as the Startup of the Year while Jishnu Bhatacharjee, managing director of Nexus Venture Partners won the Midas Touch Award for Best Investor.
The award for the Bootstrap Champ went to online gaming company Gameberry Labs for its ability to stand out in the crowded online gaming space without raising any external capital, while the prize for Top Innovator was bagged by biotech startup String Bio.
ZopSmart, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform servicing companies in the retail sector, won the Comeback Kid award while FIA Global, a company helping people in some of the remotest areas of the country avail of formal financial services, won in the Social Enterprise category.
Digantara Technologies, a space situational awareness company – started on a campus – which is developing end-to-end infrastructure to address the difficulties of space operations and space traffic management, was adjudged the Best-on-Campus.
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For building a Rs 200-crore company in the pet care and supplies industry, Heads Up for Tails founder Rashi Narang won the Woman Ahead prize.At a virtual meeting that lasted for more than two hours on September 12, a high-powered jury led by Kotak Mahindra Bank founder and director Uday Kotak picked the winners in eight categories from a shortlist of 38 contenders.
Kotak was joined by Renuka Ramnath, founder of Multiples Private Equity; Kalyan Krishnamurthy, CEO of Flipkart group; Deepinder Goyal, founder and CEO of Zomato; Supam Maheshwari, cofounder and CEO of FirstCry; Satyan Gajwani, vice-chairman of Times Internet; Roshni Nadar Malhotra, chairperson of HCLTech; Shekhar Kirani, partner at Accel; Arjun Sethi, cofounder of Tribe Capital; Harshil Mathur, cofounder and CEO of Razorpay; and Ranjan Pai, chairman of Manipal Education and Medical Group.