ET Startup Awards 2022: Winners to be crowned on Nov 19

The eighth edition of The Economic Times Startup Awards (ETSA) will be held on Saturday, November 19, in Bengaluru to honour this year's winners across nine categories in what will be a star-studded gathering of the who's who of India's new economy. The most coveted recognition for the country's entrepreneurial talent, ETSA will host top policymakers, unicorn founders and tech investors in a by-invite gathering of 350 guests.

Razorpay, the Bengaluru-based online payments solutions company, won top honours as the Startup of the Year, while Falguni Nayar, founder and CEO of Nykaa, bagged the newly launched CEO of the Year category. Shekhar Kirani, partner, Accel, won the Midas Touch Award for Best Investor.

The award for the Bootstrap Champ went to Noise, a smart wearables brand with sizable revenue and profits while the prize for Top Innovator went to Eyestem, a Bengaluru-based cell therapy company. Cloud telephony platform Exotel was chosen as the winner of the Comeback Kid category while Solinas Integrity, a deep-tech firm founded at IIT Madras that develops robotic solutions for the pipeline and sanitation industry was adjudged as the Best-on-Campus. Smita Deorah, co-CEO, Lead, an edtech company, was the winner in the Woman Ahead category and plastic recycling startup Banyan Nation was the Social Enterprise winner.


At a virtual meeting that lasted for more than two hours on October 28, a high-powered jury led by Infosys CEO and MD Salil Parekh picked the winners in nine categories from a shortlist of 45 contenders. Parekh was joined by 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 Ltd; Lizzie Chapman, cofounder and CEO, ZestMoney; and Sanjeev Bikhchandani, cofounder, InfoEdge.