ET Startup Awards 2025: Celebrating the stars of India’s Startup Inc

Top entrepreneurs, policymakers and investors will celebrate the best of Indian entrepreneurship at the eleventh edition of The Economic Times Startup Awards in Bengaluru today, October 31. Presiding over the glittering ceremony will be commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal. Winners -past and present- will be among the elite speakers.

Lenskart CEO Peyush Bansal, winner of the 2024 Startup of the Year award, is among the most anticipated speakers. Urban Company founder and CEO Abhiraj Singh Bhal, winner of the 2025 Startup of the Year award, will join a panel alongside Rapido cofounder and CEO Aravind Sanka and Myntra CEO Nandita Sinha, to reflect on the past decade of India’s startup growth.

The high-powered jury tasked with choosing the winners of ETSA 2025 met in Bengaluru on August 28 to pick the winners across eight categories. The jury was chaired by Amitabh Kant, India’s former G20 Sherpa. Joining him on the jury were Prashanth Prakash, partner at Accel; Kalyan Krishnamurthy, CEO, Flipkart Group; Sahil Barua, cofounder, Delhivery; Ruchi Kalra, cofounder, OfBusiness and Oxyzo; Ghazal Alagh, cofounder, Mamaearth; Tarun Mehta, cofounder, Ather Energy; Harshil Mathur, cofounder, Razorpay; Faraz Khalid, CEO, Noon; and Satyan Gajwani, chairman, Times Internet.


The winners are:

• Bootstrap Champ: Minfy Technologies
• Top Innovator: Qure AI
• Comeback Kid: Nawgati
• Best on Campus: Capillary Technologies
• Woman Ahead: Prukalpa Sankar
• Social Enterprise: Chakr Innovation
• Midas Touch: Ashish Agrawal
• Startup of the Year: Urban Company