ET Startup Awards 2024: What the jury said about winners and nominees

After more than two hours of deliberations, the high-powered jury for the Economic Times Startup Awards 2024 selected the eight winners from a cohort of 41 nominees. Here's what the jurors had to say about the winners, nominees and the overall process after the meeting:

Nandan Nilekani, cofounder and chairman, Infosys

The overarching theme of ETSA is that the so-called startup world is coming of age. We learnt a lot because many of these companies which we may not have heard of, some technology innovations we have not seen and even the quality of entrepreneurs... In all, this was a good learning experience for us.


Sumer Juneja, managing partner, India & EMEA, SoftBank

Many startups are focused on building more sustainable businesses, with strong fundamentals and good unit economics.

Prativa Mohapatra, Adobe India

When subjectivity and objectivity came together, we could filter out the best decision. The collective experience added to the distillation of the information.

Nandita Sinha, CEO, Myntra

Everybody brought a unique point of view which they added from their experiences and made it thoughtful.