ET Startup Awards 2024: Jury members to reward original ideas, tomorrow's heroes

A high-powered jury led by Infosys cofounder and chairman Nandan Nilekani will meet on September 11 to pick the winners of the 10th edition of The Economic Times Startup Awards (ETSA) 2024, India’s most coveted recognition for entrepreneurial excellence.

On Monday, Albinder Dhindsa, CEO, Blinkit and Ritesh Arora, cofounder and CEO, Browserstack, told us that they value uniqueness in startups.

Today Nyrika Holkar, executive director, Godrej & Boyce and Nikhil Kamath, cofounder, Zerodha tell us what they expect from ETSA contenders.


Nyrika Holkar, executive director, Godrej & Boyce

The ET Startup awards provides a ringside view to India’s tremendous pool of talent and entrepreneurial spirit where an array of founders is innovating to solve today’s consumer and institutional pain-points across diverse sectors. This process affirms that our startup culture not only continues to power the country’s economic growth but also one that thrives on original ideas, accessible capital and being a force for positive change for communities at large.

Nikhil Kamath, cofounder, Zerodha

Entrepreneurship is going to be cardinal to India's prospect as a country over the next decade. We need to celebrate this. In my view tomorrow's heroes will be different from yesterday's, and this is a really good thing.