etsa 2021

Bengaluru: Last year was undoubtedly a landmark one for Indian startups as eight new-age companies made their way to the public markets on Indian and international bourses. These included names like Zomato, Nykaa, Freshworks, PolicyBazaar…

This is part of a series of interviews with the winners of The Economic Times Startup Awards 2021. Indian colleges must encourage a culture of entrepreneurship by cultivating strong alumni networks and promoting innovation, said Sambhav…

In the end, it all boiled down to Lizzie Chapman’s perseverance. The ETSA jury highlighted this as one of her most significant attributes in a highly competitive financial services industry. Chapman pipped Sugar Cosmetics chief executive…

Using cutting-edge technology to overcome some of the most deep-rooted social issues— such as manual scavenging—helped Genrobotic Innovations emerge as the winner in the crucial Social Enterprise category of the ET Startup Awards 2021.…

Two very different companies fought a close battle for the top honours in the Best on Campus category at the ETSA 2021. The 11-member jury had to weigh the pros and cons carefully to decide between Pixxel, a startup building a constellation…

The founders of Urban Company—Abhiraj Singh Bhal, Raghav Chandra and Varun Khaitan —were able to significantly grow a high-touch services business amid a raging pandemic, even as most offline counterparts were severely impacted. The ET…

Kovai.co's determination to build world-class software products out of a tier-II city like Coimbatore, rather than from Bengaluru or Chennai, sealed the deal for the members of the seventh ET Startup Awards jury. The startup, which went…

Zomato, the food delivery and restaurant discovery company that blazed a new trail with its stellar public listing earlier this year, won top honours at the seventh edition of India’s most prestigious awards for entrepreneurship — The…

As Indian startups go public, the industry has come of age. This year’s ET Startup Awards jury meeting was held in the backdrop of two record-breaking IPOs by Indian startups— Zomato and Freshworks—which the esteemed panel termed as…

was voted as The Economic Times Startup of the Year 2021 by a star-studded jury, just a few months after the online food delivery and restaurant discovery platform went public on Indian bourses and set an example for others in the…