On September 11 in Bengaluru A high-powered jury led by Infosys cofounder and chairman Nandan Nilekani will meet to pick the winners of the tenth edition of The Economic Times Startup Awards 2024. Launched in 2015 to celebrate the fledgling startup economy, ETSA has over the past nine years chronicled the ebb and flow of the Indian entrepreneurship ecosystem.

Mithun Sacheti who is the founder along with CaratLane; Nyrika Holkar, executive director, Godrej & Boyce; Ritesh Arora, cofounder and CEO, Browserstack; Albinder Dhindsa, CEO, Blinkit; Sumer Juneja, managing partner & head, India & EMEA, SoftBank; Nikhil Kamath, cofounder, Zerodha; Nandita Sinha, CEO, Myntra; Prativa Mohapatra, MD, Adobe India; and cricketer Shubman Gill are going to join Nilekani at this milestone event.

Nilekani who is also the founding chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India, which houses Aadhaar, the biometric identity number that has proven to be the bedrock for a swathe of fintech startups said “The tenth edition of the ET Startup Awards comes at a defining moment in this young industry which has faced a few challenging years amid a funding drought and corporate governance lapses. Those that have grown and prospered have done so by focusing on profitability, being frugal, adhering to high integrity standards and running the marathon.