Union Cabinet ministers Piyush Goyal and Ashwini Vaishnaw, Union minister of state Rajeev Chandrasekhar and Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai will grace the event, which will honour the winners of the ET Startup Awards 2021.
The winners in nine categories, who were chosen by our high-powered jury at a virtual meeting on September 24, 2021, will receive their awards in person as the award ceremony returns after a nearly two-year hiatus.
Zomato, which blazed a new trail with its stellar public listing in 2021,
won Startup of the Year. In doing so it joined a prestigious list of previous winners, which include stock trading platform Zerodha, logistics and supply chain firm Delhivery, online transportation app Ola, enterprise software maker Freshdesk, food delivery platform Swiggy, and hospitality brand Oyo.
ET had assembled a jury comprising top Indian and global business leaders, investors and entrepreneurs. Headed by Nandan Nilekani, cofounder and non-executive chairman Infosys and the architect of Aadhaar, it also included:
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- Deepinder Goyal, cofounder and CEO, Zomato
- Gokul Rajaram, product and business leader, DoorDash
- Sachin Bansal, founder and CEO, Navi Technologies
- Nithin Kamath, founder and CEO, Zerodha
- Anu Hariharan, partner, Y Combinator Continuity Fund
- Amit Agarwal, global SVP and country head, Amazon India
- Satyan Gajwani, vice chairman, Times Internet Ltd
- GV Ravishankar, MD, Sequoia Capital India;
- Harsh Jain, cofounder and CEO, Dream11
- Ankiti Bose, cofounder and CEO, Zilingo
