Uday Kotak, founder and director, Kotak Mahindra Bank: “Entrepreneurship defines India and Indians. I’m very proud to see the flourishing of Indian entrepreneurship…I congratulate The Economic Times for having created this whole process about nearly ten years ago. I want to thank each of jury members for their great insights and free flowing discussions for us to come to a better and more appropriate thinking process for choosing winners out of very high-quality companies and entrepreneurs. I’m happy with the outcomes that we have achieved today.”
Renuka Ramnath, founder, Multiples Private Equity: “It’s lovely to see so many powerful disruptive ideas using technology to build a better India. Congratulations to the winners and it’s great to see that these disruptions are being built to scale and to profitability.”
Kalyan Krishnamurthy, CEO, Flipkart group: “Firstly, it’s a great opportunity to meet this group, it’s not common for all of us… Secondly, I see this as a big learning process for myself, participating in what can define the next ten years of India’s technology disruption.”
Deepinder Goyal, cofounder and CEO, Zomato: «The list of nominees this year was really good, especially in a bad year for startups. However, it is during such times that great companies surface, and I am pleased to see that we are recognising B2B firms which have