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.
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.
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