INDIA STARTUP DAY AWARDS

Keeping up with the spirit of India Startup Day, Facebook also hosted India Startup Awards to recognize some of the most path-breaking work of India’s disruptive startup ecosystem and awarded winners in five categories including:

SHE LEADS TECH

This award recognizes the most successful tech startup launched and or led by a woman founder or co-founder

Greenway Grameen, a startup that designs & distributes life-improving products amongst low-income markets. Its products solve some of the most critical problems that consumers face like clean cooking, electricity access and even internet use.

BUILDING FOR THE WORLD

This award recognizes a company that has seen success outside India and are working on solutions that are being used on a global scale

Nanoclean, a company that produces affordable bio safe nanofibers with its proprietary polymer technology. Nanoclean Limited’s first commercial product, Nasofilter, is the first ever non-inserted, hypo allergenic and self-adhering nanotechnology-based respiratory disposable nasal filter in the world.

BUILDING FOR TOMORROW

An award for startups using emerging technologies such as AR/VR to reinvent how business and society can come up with solutions

Scapic, a platform that lets people create, share and explore immersive experiences. It helps users to build Virtual, Augmented or Mixed Reality content easily, for social media, the web and spatial devices.

BUILDING FOR THE NEXT BILLION This award recognizes startups developing and implementing solutions for social, cultural and environmental issues in India

Aye Finance, a startup built on the mission of transforming the micro and small enterprise lending in India by providing inclusive finance at affordable price to this ‘missing middle’.

COMMUNITY BUILDER

This award recognizes startups that are building solutions to support the developer startup community in India

Hasura, a platform that helps developers build, develop and scale their apps. It has instant APIs for rapid development, and it helps create a to-do app within three minutes.