The Startup of the Year Award celebrates visionary founders who have established a distinctive presence in the market by developing a platform that is not only scalable and robust but also sustainable. Their journey inspires others to pursue bold innovation and achieve success.

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The Scale Up of the Year Award recognizes innovative startups that achieved substantial growth in customer engagement, revenue, and valuation over the last two years. They demonstrate market capture skills, adaptability, and visionary entrepreneurship.

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The Entrepreneur of the Year award is bestowed to an individual who has achieved remarkable success, demonstrated innovation, exhibited leadership prowess, and shown a drive to explore new avenues for growth, thereby establishing new benchmarks of sustained superior performance.

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The Next-Gen Entrepreneur award is bestowed upon a Kerala-based business family member who has revolutionized an existing enterprise through outstanding growth—whether in technology, product, or business model—thus redefining the rules of business and preparing their enterprise for a new era.

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Innovator of the Year recognizes an entrepreneur's exceptional contributions in technology, business models, or products and services that have disrupted and profoundly impacted the economy. This award acknowledges their visionary thinking, transformative efforts, and their role in driving positive change.

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Social Impactor of the Year is presented to a social entrepreneur whose work has yielded the most significant impact on society and/or the economy in Kerala. This award acknowledges achievements in social inclusion, sustainability, and other attributes that signify enduring and progressive social change.

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Ecosystem Enabler is bestowed upon an individual or organization that has played a significant role in enhancing access to funding, incubation, infrastructure, or other avenues that facilitate entrepreneurship.

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The Lifetime Achievement Award, our flagship honor, pays tribute to an individual whose leadership and entrepreneurship have left a profound impact on enterprise-building, as well as on Kerala's broader community and society.