National Startup Awards 2021 | Startup India | 15 February 2021 | TBA

Despite the challenging times, the Indian Startup ecosystem has showcased unprecedented resilience and zest for innovation, which have been playing an important role in propelling the nation’s socio-economic growth trajectory. As a successor to the first edition, National Startup Awards 2021 shall recognize and reward outstanding startups and enablers who have demonstrated exceptional capabilities not just in terms of financial gains but also for the measurable impact on society. NSA 2021 also aims to cover flagship schemes launched by the Government of India through innovations in corresponding areas, thereby solving community problems at large. Consideration is also being given to champion sectors identified by the Government of India with a focus on improving India’s manufacturing capabilities towards the mission of an “Atma Nirbhar Bharat”.

The National Startup Awards 2021 seek to recognize and reward outstanding startups and ecosystem enablers that are contributing to economic dynamism by spurring innovation and injecting competition. Startups that are building innovative products/solutions, scalable enterprises, with high potential of employment generation or wealth creation, demonstrating measurable social impact. The measure of success will not only be the financial gains for the investors but also the contribution to the social good.

2020 Winners

Agriculture
Allied Areas: Cornext Agri Products Pvt Ltd

The startup addresses green fodder shortage by preserving green fodder when in the form of silage.

Farmer Engagement and Education: Mandya Organic

The Bengaluru-based startup helps farmers to adopt organic farming and provide a sales platform through supermarkets.

Post-Harvest: Intello Labs

It has digitised food quality assessments, allowing people to buy fresh food and help stores pinpoint and cycle out old stock.

Productivity: Nava Design Innovation & Innovation

The startup’s solar-powered robotic device for coconut sap tapping increases productivity and safety.

Education
Access to Institutional Education: Robotguru Education Technologies

It teach robotics in an integrated manner, by enabling students to explore and perform experiments.

Access to Open Education: Kickhead Softwares

The Noida and Bengaluru-based startup has created a platform that allows students to prepare for exams for no charge.

Energy
Clean Energy: Aloe E-Cell

The startup has created the world’s first 100% eco-friendly and non-hazardous 1.5V AA batteries. This can lead to a 71.6% reduction in environmental pollution.

Energy Efficiency: Esyasoft

Its smart grid platform run by machine learning and deep learning analytics, improving energy efficiency and distribution system of utilities

Enterprise Technology
Enterprise Solutions: Unnati Online

Unnati is an automated, voice-enabled digital assistant that aids informal sector workers in finding job opportunities. It helps reduce unemployment by operating an automated job helpline service, calling job-seekers about openings in their state.

Fintech
Finance: BharatPe or Resilient Innovations

The Delhi-based startup works on offering services to merchants in SME sector, enabling acceptance of UPI payments from over 150 payment apps in India.

Food
Access to Food: Food Cloud

Food Cloud is an online portal that connects consumers with home chefs, with over 80% of the registered home chefs being women.

Food Processing: God’s Own Food Solutions

The Kochi-based startup streamlines the organised market for Indian jackfruits, developing a patented ‘green jackfruit flour’

Health
Access to Healthcare: Wellthy Therapeutics

The startup integrates electronic medical reports for physicians and designed to engage beneficiaries at multiple levels.

Diagnostics: Niramai Health Analytix

It has an accurate, affordable solution for detecting early-stage breast cancer, having screened over 25,000 women in 12 states.

Life Sciences: Bonayu Lifesciences

The startup has developed cost-effective topical thin films as an alternative to traditional ointments, creams, gels, etc.

Medical Devices: Innaumation Medical Devices

The Bengaluru-based startup has built Aum Voice Prosthesis, a device that enables throat cancer patients who have lost their voice to speak again.

Industry 4.0
Big Data: Uptimeai Tech

The startup has developed a software platform which enables plant engineers to predict equipment and performance issues in advance.

Internet of Things: Minionlabs India

The Bengaluru-based startup uses machine learning and AI to derive actionable insights, bringing savings to electricity bills, helping with savings upto 30%.

3D Printing: Fabheads Automation

The startup designs and manufactures 3D printers using carbon fiber, allowing them to print parts that are strong as steel but light as plastic.

Augmented Reality Products/Wearables: Scapic Innovations

They are building a platform for brands to create 3D and augmented reality experience without coding themselves.

Robotics: Planys Technologies

Planys specialises in smart underwater inspection solutions identifying anomalies in a variety of assets located underwater.

Computer Vision: Gingermind Technologies

Gingermind builds AI-powered smartphone apps and wearables which aid visually challenged individuals.

Security
Citizen Security Solutions: Staqu Technologies

The Gurugram-based startup helps police forces in 8 Indian States digitize and archive criminal records through speaker identification solutions.

Cyber Security: Lucideus Tech

The startup’s product SAFE has cyber risk quantification, providing real-time cyber risk assessment & contain over 100,000 nodes of connections at once.

Space
Launch Vehicles: Skyroot Aerospace

Its launch vehicles carry a wide range of payload capacity and are building cost-effective small satellite launch vehicles.

Satellite Technology: Dhruva Space / Bellatrix Aerospace

The startup builds small satellite constellations for Earth observation and scientific application, helping countries to have satellites in orbits.

Tourism
Hospitality: Feeinsta Consulting & Services

The startup’s smart e-toilets has automated seats, inbuilt night light, touch free and waterless to improve public hygiene.

Travel Planning and Discovery: Param People Infotech

It allows travelers to transact with verified highway services and amenities, covering more than 60,000 km’s in India.

Urban Services
Construction Development Monitoring Solutions: SnPC Machines

SnPC has the first of its kind brick-making machines that moves like a vehicle and lays down bricks.

Traffic Management: Wickedride Adventure Services

They offer a keyless, dockless, shared mobility solution having already reached 2.5 million users within a year.

Waste Management: Sukriti Social Foundation

Sukriti’s Eco-Mitra is a self-cleaning and self-maintenance toilet, treating wastewater and reusing it for flushing.

Water and Water Networks: Taraltec Solutions

The startup’s product Taraltec Reactor, decontaminates water and provides clean drinking water to half a million people in India.