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IDFC FIRST Bank is a fast growing, new age Private Sector Bank created in India with a vision of building a world-class Bank in India, focused on Ethical, Digital, and Social Good Banking. The Bank has 35.5 million live customers, a customer deposit base of Rs. 2,56,799 crore and loans and advances of Rs. 2,53,233 crore, spread over 60,000 cities, towns, and villages across India. It has 1,016 branches but is built as a digital first Bank in scale, scope, and approach.
Its customer deposits are growing at 26% YoY and Loans & Advances growing by 21% YoY (June 30, 2025) based on friendly user digital interface, ethical approach, customer friendly products, strong brand, and high corporate governance. Its technology stack is built on advanced technology using cloud native experience layer, microservices led architecture, and powered by advanced data platform, analytics, and Artificial Intelligence.
Its mobile App has over 2 million views and is rated 4.9 on Google Playstore and 4.8 on Appstore. The App is rated #1 in India and #4 App in the world by The Forrester Digital Experience Review™: Global Mobile Banking Apps, Q4 2024 for prioritising Customers’ financial well-being, comprehensive suite of financial management features, and personalized financial insights, providing educational resources and expert guidance through its Financial Wellness Corner and IDFC First Academy.
The Bank launched FIRSTWINGS, a Startup Banking program, in Nov ’21 and has now embarked on a journey to power up startups with many curated offerings, such as a Zero Balance Startup Current Account for the first 3 years with unlimited free IMPS, NEFT, and RTGS transactions, along with doorstep banking, uniquely designed Working Capital Solutions for pre-profit startups, Business Credit Cards for startups with step-up credit, a tailored Founder Success Program, and 40+ Beyond Banking offers from its partners.
WORKSPACE PARTNER
Incorporated in 2015, by visionary startup founders Rishi Das & Meghna Agarwal – IndiQube is India’s first & only full-stack workspace solutions company, offering a comprehensive suite of services under one roof. IndiQube today boasts of managing 7Mn sq ft of space, across 13 cities in Pan India catering to over 700+ clients. The company has achieved profitability in less than a decade and obtained a Crisil A+ rating.
With its innovative approach and wide array of services, IndiQube is setting new standards in the workplace industry, continually evolving to meet the modern needs of businesses across India.
Started in 2013 by former investors Neha Singh (ex-Sequoia Capital) and Abhishek Goyal (ex-Accel Partners), Tracxn is a analyst curated startup research platform that tracks over 250 sectors like Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, IoT and Autonomous vehicles. Tracxn’s 500+ clients spread across 50+ countries include venture capital funds, private equity firms and corporates who use Tracxn’s data for deal discovery i.e. to spot investment, merger and strategic partnership opportunities and tracking innovation in different sectors.
KNOWLEDGE PARTNER
The Leela Palace Bengaluru is a decadent palace, nestled amidst nine acres of lush gardens featuring six floors of elegant and spacious 357 rooms and suites. Built in an art-deco form drawing inspiration from the architectural style of the Royal Palace of Mysore and the palaces of the Vijayanagar Empire, its copper domes, arches and ornate ceilings reflect the grandeur of palaces of a bygone era. The new hotel offers a host of restaurants, bars and The Royal Club, a hotel within a hotel providing highly-personalized business and leisure services complemented by five daily meal presentations at The Royal Club Lounge. The hotel is in close proximity to business districts, the cosmopolitan 100ft road. Indiranagar with easy access to the city centre – MG Road.
HOSPITALITY PARTNER
Indorse is a coding assessment platform. By leveraging the experience of human experts across the world, Indorse provides companies with reliable and actionable insights about candidates.
The team is raising the bar in terms of quality appraisal of tech talent, while substantially reducing the direct and indirect costs of the hiring process.
Having already worked with both small and large tech companies in finding suitable talent, most recently, Indorse conducted a tech recruitment event to assess coding and data science candidates for South-East Asia’s biggest ride-hailing firm, Grab.
ASSOCIATE SPONSOR
Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. People use Facebook to stay connected with friends and family, to discover what’s going on in the world, and to share and express what matters to them.
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Oddup was founded in 2015 with the aim to simplify the fragmented startup, ICO, cryptocurrency and investor landscape. Oddup provides startup, investor, sector, and ecosystem data, insights, and analyses in 34 major cities across the globe. Oddup also provides cryptocurrency listings and price targets, ICO analysis, and the Oddup Indexes, which track real-time trends across the startup landscape.
Oddup is an indispensable resource for investors, investment banks, venture capitalists, accelerators, corporate innovators and management consultancies, with its combination of useful tools including the Benchmark Valuation, a view of the current valuation of a startup, and the Oddup Score, which depicts startup health and potential in a single value.
iSPIRT Foundation connects and guides software product entrepreneurs and catalyzes business growth. It’s an enabler of a stronger ecosystem. It encourages buyers to improve performance by leveraging software products effectively. It also advises policy makers on interventions that can set the industry on a higher growth trajectory. iSPIRT is a not-for-profit industry think-tank founded by key participants and proponents of the Indian software product industry. iSPIRT will evaluate all applications received for the Bootstrap Champ award category.
KNOWLEDGE PARTNER
