Pride of India Annual Awards 2020

Chiratae Ventures Pride of India Annual Awards 2020

Chiratae Ventures Pride of India Annual Awards 2020 was held on October 30, 2020, to recognize and celebrate those startups that have realized their true potential and exhibited exceptional growth in recent times, especially in the areas of exits and fundraising. In its 14th year, there are six winners under the Successful Exit category and 18 portfolio companies under the Successful Fundraise category.

The virtual award ceremony was hosted by Karan Mohla, Executive Director and Head of Consumer Media and Technology, Chiratae Ventures, and brought together investors and founders from across the world and multiple time zones.

Sudhir Sethi, Founder and Chairman of Chiratae Ventures gave an overview of the Chiratae Ventures Pride of India Annual Awards and its importance in the startup community.

Here are the winners across the two categories: Pride of India Annual Awards 2020

Successful Exit category

The awards for this category were conferred by Saurabh Srivastava (Investor, Serial Entrepreneur and Former Chairman of NASSCOM) and Ruchira Shukla (Regional Lead, South Asia, Disruptive Technologies at IFC).

The winners are:

FirstCry, an online shopping store for child products
eShakti.com, a fashion clothing e-commerce company
Forus Health, a medical technology startup to eradicate avoidable blindness
Policybazaar, an online policy aggregator
Netmeds, an online health store
SilverPush, artificial intelligence-powered advertising technology solutions provider

Successful Fundraise Category

The awards for this category were conferred by Chirantan Patnaik from CDC, Manish Choksi of Asian Paints, Bruno Raschle of Schroder Adveq, Pawan Chaturvedi of Unilever Ventures and Amit Mehta from L N Bangur Group.

The winners are:

Cure.fit., a fitness startup
Bounce, a dockless scooter platform
CropIn Technology, a platform for end-to-end farm management solutions
EarlySalary, an online credit services provider
Deepfence Inc., an enterprise application security company
Hevo Data Inc., an automated data pipeline solutions provider
HealthifyMe, a digital health and wellness platform
Kristal.AI., digital wealth management services provider
Emotix, the developer of advanced personal robots for children Miko.ai.
Axio Biosolutions, Deep Science MedTech company
HealthPlix, a healthtech venture
LoveLocal, an online local stores aggregator
Policybazaar, an online policy aggregator (This is the only startup to have won the prize under both categories this year)
PlayShifu, AR-based STEM toys developer
RentoMojo, a furniture rental platform
Peel-Works, B2B grocery and FMCG commerce platform
CreditMantri, an online credit services provider
Lenskart, an eyewear company.

TC Meenakshisundaram, Founder and Managing Director of Chiratae Ventures delivered the closing note at the event. “Congratulations to all the winners for creating successful exits and follow up rounds in their journey to create valuable enterprises. Thanks for taking us with you on your journey,” he said.

Last Updated: 02-Dec-2020
Source: YourStory

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