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Innovative Startup of the YearThis Award category will recognize a business owner/founder who has developed a unique business model or innovative product. The startup must have made remarkable progress in the initial period of starting the business. (Organisation should be equal to or less than five years)
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Technology-based Startup of the YearThis category is open to all Business enterprises that have been in business five years or less on December 31st, 2020 (Tech / Fintech / Artificial Intelligence / IOT / Virtual Reality) (Organisation should be equal or less than five years)
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Art & Craft Startup of the YearThis category is open to Business enterprises that have brought innovations across Art & Craft business (Organization should be equal or less than five years)
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Digital Startup of the YearThis Award will recognize a digital startup including a online retailer or online gamer who has earned 40% or more of their revenue online. (Organization should be equal or less than five years).
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Promising Startup of the YearThis Award will recognize businesses and organizations in the early stages of development or at the concept stage.
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Mobility Startup of the YearThis Award will recognize the organizations that have introduced innovative products in the automotive & ancillary industry, or any other mobility domains. (Organizations should be less than or equal to 5 years)
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Energy Startup of the YearThis category is open to Firms that have developed a unique new Energy saving/New Energy generation business model. (Organization should be equal or less than five years)
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Logistics Startup of the YearThe Award will spotlight the supply chains /logistic/ fulfillment & delivery Startup that has built a business model to make the Smooth production and distribution of a Business process more efficient. (Organization should be equal or less than five years)
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Food & Beverage Startup of the YearThis Award is to recognize Innovative Food Tech Startups that have created resourceful, efficient & sustainable Food System. (Organization should be equal or less than five years)
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Healthcare Startup of the YearThis category is open to Startups which have brought innovations across the Healthcare sector that transformed parameters like access to healthcare, diagnostics & life-sciences from "Bigger and better" to "low cost & high tech" model (Organization should be equal or less than five years)
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Education Startup of the YearThis Award will recognize EdTech Startups that have enhanced teacher-led learning in classrooms and improved students' education outcomes. (Organization should be equal or less than five years)
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Retail Startup of the YearThis Award recognizes startups growing across niche retail categories for market and product differentiation. (Organization should be equal or less than five years)
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Tourism & Leisure Startup of the YearThis Award recognizes startups that offered offbeat accommodation, uncommon trips and treks, and immersive events to the premium domestic customer and a new generation of global travelers (Organization should be equal or less than five years)
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Real Estate Startup of the YearThis Award will recognize a Real Estate startup with respect to their growth, property management initiatives, brokerage, rental management, buying and selling, site operations, etc. (Organization should be equal or less than five years)
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Social Impact Startup of the YearThis Award will be awarded to startups penetrating deeply for impacting the most disadvantaged or underprivileged section of society (Organization should be equal or less than five years)
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E-Commerce (B2B) Startup of the YearThis Award category will recognize startups that sell a product or service to another company, besides other individual consumers. (Organization should be equal or less than five years)
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Rural Startup of the YearThis category recognizes startups that empower and facilitate business opportunities to promote a better quality of life across rural India. (Organisation should be equal or less than five years)
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Agricultural Startup of the YearThis category recognizes Agritech Startups that provide relevant and innovative solutions to several challenges across the agricultural value chain. (Organization should be equal or less than five years)
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Women-Led Startup of the YearThis Award category will recognize woman entrepreneurs who have developed a unique business model or product and made remarkable progress during the initial period of starting the business. (Organization should be equal or less than five years)
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Green Startup of the YearThis Award category will include startups that decided to go green and adopted innovative eco-friendly solutions to solve environmental problems. (Organization should be equal or less than five years)
Preliminary Evaluation & filtering will be done by the Research & Incubation Hub of this project - ARIES INTERNATIONAL MARITIME RESEARCH INSTITUTE (AIMRI) & final evaluation will be done by the members of INDYWOOD BILLIONAIRES CLUB (IBC)