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We recognize excellence in eight categories Startup of the Year, Woman Ahead, Top Innovator, Bootstrap Champ, Midas Touch Best Investor, Social Enterprise, Best on Campus and Comeback Kid.

STARTUP AWARDS JURY

The Jury of The Economic Times Startup Awards comprises some of the finest business leaders, investors and startup gurus. Together, this team of 10 will assess the entries to award in the Indian startup community.

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Nandan Nilekani

Nandan Nilekani knows a thing or two about disruption and reinvention. He was CEO and then co-chairman of India's second-largest technology firm that he cofounded, Infosys, before he decided to leave to spearhead the world's largest citizens identification number project.
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Sachin Bansal

Sachin Bansal is executive chairman of Flipkart. Beginning from a tiny bedroom in Koramangala, Bengaluru, Sachin Bansal along with cofounder Binny Bansal has grown Flipkart into an online retail juggernaut taking on global ecommerce giant Amazon in India. As CEO of Flipkart until January 2016.
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Vani Kola

Vani Kola, the Managing Director of Kalaari Capital, was the winner of the 'Midas Touch Award for Best Investor' in the inaugural ET Startup Awards in 2015. Not for nothing. Kola boasts an enviable track record of spotting entrepreneurs who would go on to build some of the largest companies in their
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Subrata Mitra

Subrata Mitra Senior Partner, Accel,has been investing in Indian startups for longer than a decade. In 2005, he cofounded one of the country's earliest seed-stage investment firms, Erasmic Ventures. It was there that Mitra first backed Dhiraj Rajaram's Mu Sigma, giving the company office space as it was