Today we present the elite jury and the nominees for the Bootstrap Champion and Top Innovator categories.
Who’s on the jury? TO A high-level jury will meet on September 11 in Bengaluru to choose the winners of ETSA 2024.
- Nandan Nilekani, Co-Founder and Chairman of Infosys, Chairman of the Jury
- Mithun Sacheti, Founder of CaratLane
- Nyrika Holkar, CEO, Godrej & Boyce
- Ritesh Arora, Co-Founder and CEO of Browserstack
- Albinder Dhindsa, CEO of Blinkit
- Sumer Juneja, Managing Partner and Head of India and EMEA at SoftBank
- Nikhil Kamath, co-founder of Zerodha
- Nandita Sinha, CEO of Myntra
- Prativa Mohapatra, MD, Adobe India
- Shubman Gill, Indian cricketer
In quotation marks: “The 10th edition of the ET Startup Awards comes at a defining moment for this young industry, which has faced some tough years amid a funding drought and corporate governance lapses. Those that have grown and thrived have done so by focusing on profitability, being frugal, adhering to high standards of integrity and running the marathon,” said Nandan Nilekani, adding that he was “looking forward to seeing some outstanding young companies.”
Background: Founded in 2015 to celebrate startups and the new-age economy, ETSA has charted the ebb and flow of the entrepreneurial ecosystem for the past nine years. Previous winners of the coveted Startup of the Year award like Freshworks, Delhiveryand Zomato They have become strong, publicly traded corporations, demonstrating the mettle of new economy companies.
What is the process? ET reached out to over 150 of the country’s top entrepreneurs, investors, industry groups and other stakeholders to compile a list of top entrepreneurial talent. The paper’s editorial team honed it to arrive at the final list.
The jury will select the winners after lengthy deliberations followed by a secret ballot.
Stay tuned for all ETSA 2024 coverage in the week leading up to the physical jury meeting on 11 September in Bengaluru.
ET Startup Awards 2024: Jury seeks resilient innovators and impactful business models
What is the jury looking for? Their focus will be on resilient entrepreneurs emerging from a difficult financing phase and presentation of innovative business modelsThe aim is to celebrate startups that combine commitment and determination to generate significant impact and success.
Today, Sumer Juneja, Managing Partner and Head of India and EMEA at SoftBank, and Nandita Sinha, CEO of Myntra, tell us what they expect from the nominees. Read more here:
And the nominees are….
Starting today, we will introduce the shortlisted contenders, starting with Bootstrap Champ (those entrepreneurs who have created a startup without external funding) and Top Innovators (startups with an original idea that has differentiated them from the competition).
Bootstrap Champion
- Boult’s audio
- Sky Jumper
- percent
- Crew scale
- Guarantors
Read more about the nominees here
Top Innovator
- Agnit Semiconductors
- Innovations in Voxelgrids
- SatSure Analysis
- Ethereal machines
- BrainSight Artificial Intelligence
Read more about the nominees here
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