BW Disrupt YEA 2022: Recognising India’s Young Disruptors

This decade belongs to India. During the last two-three years. The emergence of startups in the nation has been remarkable despite the global headwinds and the challenging funding environment. According to many reports, the age of innovation-driven, disruptive entrepreneurship is getting younger. 

Younger entrepreneurs are not only able to differentiate amongst its group of peer startups but also create products in niches in order to address the demands that are coming up from the sub-segments. 

Consistent focus on the fundamentals with horses’ blinds on and prioritising revenue generation are the top recommendations from the industry captains and leaders that have come up for young enterprises and entrepreneurs. 

Considering the larger emphasis on the startup sector, future-ready entrepreneurs are in the ‘driver’s seat’ to navigate the economic growth. Startups’ stakeholders are in a pursuit to craft and draft innovative solutions that can address a plethora of problems modern day India faces.

The Screening Process

Applications received for BW Young Entrepreneur and Enterprise Awards were put through the multi-tier screening process. More than 140 entries were received. Subsequently, after the second level of assessment, a total number of 50 nominees were shortlisted and invited to present before the power-packed jury panel.

The process of finalising the list of 15 winners was rigorously demanding. The nominations were evaluated on critical parameters that included the mark of disruption made by the business idea, financial growth, scope of social impact and the long-term growth potential it holds. 

Entrepreneurs from an extensive range of ecommerce, fintech, healthtech, logistics, D2C brands, apparel businesses, social enterprises and many more nominated for the recognition.  

To arrive at the list of the final 15 winners, a jury comprising industry leaders and sector captains narrowed down the list from 150 total nominations to 50. The jury included of Dr Apoorva Ranjan Sharma, Co-Founder – Venture Catalysts & 9Unicorns, Vikram Gupta, Founder & Managing Partner, lvyCap Ventures; Bala C Deshpande, Founder & Partner, MegaDelta Capital; Anuradha Ramachandran, Managing Partner, TVS Capital; Ravinder Pal Singh, Partner, Kalari Capital; Arpit Agarwal, Director, Blume Venture; Ninad Kapre, Partner – 100X.VC; Ankit Kedia, Founder – Capital A; Uma Shankar Bhardwaj, Founder and CEO, iAvatarZ Digital; Aditya Prakash Gupt, Partner, GEMs; Prasar Sharma, Director – BW Businessworld; Dr. Annurag Batra, Chairman & Editor-in-Chief, BW Businessworld, and Founder, exchange4media. 

Winners' 2023