ET Startup Awards 2026: Full awards ceremony | Groww is Startup of the Year

Nine winners across eight categories were honoured at the ET Startup Awards 2026 in Bengaluru, with Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal presenting the trophies. Watch the full awards ceremony.The winners:Bootstrap Champ: Habuild (Saurabh Bothra, Trishala Bothra, Anshul Agrawal)Top Innovator: Theranautilus (Debayan Dasgupta, Peddi Shanmukh Srinivas, Ambarish Ghosh)Comeback Kid: Mukund Jha, EmergentBest on Campus: Armatrix (Vishrant Dave, Prateesh Awasthi, Ayush Ranjan)Woman Ahead: Pallavi Mohadikar, Palmonas, and Pallavi Shrivastava, ProgcapSocial Enterprise: Varaha (Madhur Jain, Ankita Garg, Vishal Kuchanur)Midas Touch (Best Investor): Manu Chandra, Sauce.vcStartup of the Year: Groww (Lalit Keshre, Harsh Jain, Neeraj Singh, Ishan Bansal)A jury chaired by Wipro Executive Chairman Rishad Premji chose the winners. Now in their 12th year, the ET Startup Awards recognise India's best startups, founders and investors.