ET Startup Awards: Nominees for Startup of the Year
The Economic Times has released the nominees for its 12th edition of the Startup Awards. Among the eight categories, the Startup of the Year award seeks candidates with groundbreaking innovation, excellent execution, rapid growth, and a strong management team.
In the Bengaluru-based category, Porter, founded in 2014 by Uttam Digga and Pranav Goel, stands out. Porter offers on-demand logistics services to SMEs through a network of larger trucks and smaller carriage vehicles for last-mile delivery. The company has secured investments from Kedaara Capital, Wellington Management, and Tiger Global.
Skyroot Aerospace, headquartered in Hyderabad and founded in 2018 by Pawan Kumar Chandana and Naga Bharath Daka, is India's first spacetech unicorn. The company's Vikram-1 rocket successfully reached Low Earth Orbit in July 2026, marking India's first privately-developed orbital launch. Skyroot is also developing the larger Vikram-2 rocket and working on a reusable rocket model, with investments from GIC, Temasek, BlackRock, and Arkam Ventures.
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