ET Startup Awards 2026 | Midas Touch: Sauce VC’s winning recipe earns Manu Chandra the prizeSauce VC founder and managing partner Manu Chandra has won the Midas Touch award for Best Investor at the ET Startup Awards 2026. The jury ...
27 Aug, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
ET Startup Awards 2026: Groww adjudged No. 1; Sauce VC’s Manu Chandra named Midas Touch winnerThe elite jury was chaired by Wipro executive chairman Rishad Premji. The 11-member panel deliberated for nearly three hours on Tuesday to ...
27 Aug, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
ET Startup Awards 2026: How we arrived at the winners... the methodologyHaving seen multiple cycles of a funding boom followed by a tech winter, the awards are a true testament to the way Indian entrepreneurship...
27 Aug, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
ET Startup Awards 2026 | Best on Campus: Armatrix slithers to success with snake-like robotic armsArmatrix has won the Best on Campus award at the ET Startup Awards 2026 for its snake-like robotic arms designed to work in narrow, hazardo...
27 Aug, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
As startups go public, ETSA jury asks: When does a startup cease to be one?Do you consider a public market company a startup, or do those not qualify? That was the big debate when the jury met to decide the next co...
27 Aug, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
ET Startup Awards 2026 | Bootstrap Champ: Habuild stretches profits without bending to VC cashFounded in 2020 by Saurabh and Trishala Bothra and Anshul Agrawal, the platform aimed to make yoga more accessible and has become one of In...
27 Aug, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
ET Startup Awards 2026 | Social Enterprise: Varaha delivers carbon dollars to smallholder farmersVaraha is helping farmers adopt sustainable farming practices such as regenerative farming, tree planting, biochar and enhanced rock weathe...
27 Aug, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
ET Startup Awards 2026 | Top Innovator: Deeptech startup Theranautilus’ micro robots score big winDeeptech startup Theranautilus has won the Top Innovator award at the ET Startup Awards 2026 for its work on microscopic robots that can na...
27 Aug, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
ET Startup Awards 2026 | Comeback Kid: Mukund Jha returns stronger with AI betEmergent cofounder Mukund Jha has won the Comeback Kid award at the ET Startup Awards 2026, marking a return after the collapse of Dunzo. T...
27 Aug, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
ET Startup Awards 2026 | Woman Ahead: Palmonas, Progcap share crown for building across sectorsPalmonas cofounder Pallavi Mohadikar and Progcap cofounder Pallavi Shrivastava jointly won the Woman Ahead award at the ET Startup Awards 2...
27 Aug, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
The Economic Times Startup Awards 2026: Nominees for Startup of the Year and Midas TouchHappy Friday! We are excited to bring to you the 12th edition of The Economic Times Startup Awards (ETSA). A few days before our esteemed j...
21 Aug, 2026, 08.10 AM IST
ET Startup Awards 2026: Nominees for Midas TouchThe Midas Touch award recognises the most lucrative exit of the year. The decision will be based on both the number of deals and the size o...
21 Aug, 2026, 06.04 AM IST
D2C watch brand Bruno Milano raises Rs 7.5 crore led by Sauce VCD2C watch brand Bruno Milano has raised Rs 7.5 crore in a funding round led by Sauce VC to expand its business and launch new products. Fou...
20 Aug, 2026, 09.15 PM IST
FSSAI cracks down on misleading 'healthy food' claims, tightens noose on brandsIndia's food regulator is targeting deceptive health claims made by beverage and food companies. Approximately eighty-five percent of digit...
22 Jul, 2026, 12.34 AM IST
Manu Chandra's Sauce, the VC making a feast of small servingsSauce VC is set to make an estimated Rs 500-550 crore from L'Oréal's acquisition of Innovist, validating founder Manu Chandra's strategy of...
20 Jun, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
L’Oréal-Innovist deal: early investors cash in big, founders pocket Rs 800-900 croreL'Oréal announced on Thursday that it would acquire a majority stake in Innovist. While the companies did not disclose financial details, p...
19 Jun, 2026, 12.49 AM IST
Sauce VC logs final close of third fund at Rs 365 croreConsumer-focused venture investor Sauce VC, which has invested in new-age brands like luggage maker Mokobara, has announced the final close...
05 Aug, 2024, 06.00 AM IST