This award celebrates failure and recognises those who have survived to tell the tale. It will be given to entrepreneurs who rebuilt or launched a more successful business.
By ETtech |
ETtech
We are back with the 12th edition of The Economic Times Startup Awards. As we approach the main event, here are the nominees for the Comeback Kid category.
This award celebrates failure and recognises those who have survived to tell the tale. It will be given to entrepreneurs who rebuilt or launched a more successful business.
Key investors: B Capital, Lightspeed, Elevation Capital
What it does: A full-stack residential rooftop solar company, SolarSquare sells and installs home solar systems while helping customers access financing and subsidies. It also provides monitoring, after-sales service and performance guarantees across 20 Indian cities.
What it does: A new-age third-party logistics company, Shadowfax provides express parcel, reverse logistics, and hyperlocal delivery services to ecommerce marketplaces and direct-to-consumer brands.
Key investors: General Catalyst, Peak XV Partners, Z47, Elevation Capital
What it does: A travel fintech platform built around a co-branded credit card, Scapia combines card spending, travel bookings, rewards, UPI transactions, and airport privileges. It earns through bank and network partnerships and bookings made on its app.
Key investors: Creaegis, Khosla Ventures, SoftBank, Lightspeed, Together Fund
What it does: An AI app-building platform for non-technical users and small businesses, Emergent lets customers create web and mobile applications through prompts. Its software handles coding, hosting, deployment, testing, and debugging, with revenue coming from subscriptions.
Company: Pratilipi
<p>Sahradayi Modi, Sankaranarayanan Devarajan, and Ranjeet Pratap Singh, founders, Pratilipi<br></p>Founders: Ranjeet Pratap Singh, Sankaranarayanan Devarajan, and Sahradayi Modi
What it does: An Indian-language storytelling platform, Pratilipi offers free and premium literature, alongside audio, comics, podcasts, and books. It earns by licensing stories for television, streaming, films and short-form video, while sharing revenue with writers.
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