ET Startup Awards 2024: The stars of startup world to shine today

Top entrepreneurs, policymakers, investors and business leaders are all set to celebrate the best of Indian entrepreneurship at the tenth edition of The Economic Times Startup Awards in Bengaluru today, October 5.

Ashwini Vaishnaw, union minister for railways, information and broadcasting, electronics and IT, will be the guest of honour at the glittering ceremony. Winners and nominees, past and present, will be among the elite speakers. Watch out for full coverage of the event in ET's pages.

In this milestone year for ETSA, this year’s jury chair, Infosys cofounder and chairman Nandan Nilekani, will hold a discussion with 2018 Midas Touch award winner Subrata Mitra, partner at Accel, this year’s Startup of the Year winner Lenskart’s cofounder and CEO Peyush Bansal, and nominee Zepto’s cofounder and CEO Aadit Palicha.


The high-powered jury tasked with choosing the winners of ETSA 2023 met in Bengaluru on September 11 to pick the winners across eight categories. They are:

• Bootstrap Champ: Boult
• Top Innovator: BrainSight AI
• Comeback Kid: Rentomojo
• Best on Campus: ClaimBuddy
• Woman Ahead: Hardika Shah
• Social Enterprise: Haqdarshak
• Midas Touch: Mukul Arora
• Startup of the Year: Lenskart