winners of the 8th edition of India’s most coveted prize for entrepreneurial excellence – The Economic Times Startup Awards (ETSA).
The ten members of the jury spread across India, the Silicon Valley, Bellevue (US) and Singapore will come together to award the brightest and best entrepreneurial leaders in what is shaping up to be a testing year for the startup ecosystem.
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Joining Parekh on the jury will be Shailendra Singh, MD, Sequoia India and Southeast Asia; Hemant Taneja, MD, General Catalyst; Girish Mathrubootham, founder & CEO, Freshworks Inc.; Arundhati Bhattacharya, CEO, Salesforce India; Sriharsha Majety, cofounder and CEO, Swiggy; Sahil Barua, cofounder and CEO, Delhivery; Satyan Gajwani, vice chairman, Times Internet; Lizzie Chapman, cofounder and CEO, ZestMoney and Sanjeev Bikhchandani, cofounder, InfoEdge who will also be part of the high-powered panel.
ETSA will award founders who have built companies without external funding, ones who have innovated successfully in the social enterprise space and entrepreneurs who have made a comeback. We will also present the
highest accolade of them all — Startup of the Year.
This year, a new category has been included,
CEO of the Year, in recognition of the deepening maturity of India’s startup ecosystem — ranked among the top three worldwide. The winner — either a founder or professional executive helming a high growth firm — should have demonstrated strategic decision making and execution skills to steer their ventures through challenges and various vagaries of building a new-age technology business.
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ETSA 2022 is being held in the backdrop of a testing year for Indian startups, as global inflationary pressures and concerns over high interest rates have affected public markets, leading to a rout in global technology stocks.
The impact can be seen on Indian startups as investors shy away from writing big cheques during the downturn.
ET reached out to more than 100 of the country’s top entrepreneurs, investors, industry groups and other stakeholders to help compile an exhaustive list of India’s brightest entrepreneurial talent.
Subsequently the paper’s editorial team along with knowledge partner Tracxn drew up a shortlist of 45 nominees across nine categories.
It is from this carefully curated shortlist that the jury will pick the final winners of the ET Startup Awards 2022.
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