National Startup Awards

Startup India’ is a flagship initiative that aims to build a strong eco-system for nurturing innovation and Startups in the country that will drive sustainable economic growth and generate large-scale employment opportunities.

Objective

National Startup Awards (‘NSA’) are conferred to recognize and reward outstanding startups and ecosystem enablers that are building innovative products or solutions and scalable enterprises, with high potential of employment generation or wealth creation, demonstrating measurable social impact.  The awards were initiated in 2020.

Categories of Awards

The National Startup Awards 2023 aim to recognize and reward outstanding startups that have demonstrated exceptional capabilities and have built innovative, scalable and impactful business solutions. These awards will be conferred across 20 categories this year.

Details of Awards

Prize

Following prizes that shall be awarded to Startups, Incubators, and Accelerators

Startups

• Cash prize of INR 10 lakhs shall be awarded to one winning startup in each category
• Pitching opportunities to winners and finalists for presenting to to relevant public authorities and corporates for potential pilot projects and work orders

Eligibility Criteria

Startups

• The entity should be a DPIIT-recognized startup. The entity must submit its certificate of incorporation or partnership deed
• The entity must have a hardware or software product or a process solution that is present in the market
• The entity must have all applicable trade trade-specific registrations (example: CE, FSSAI, MSME, GST Registration, etc.)
• There should not have been any default in the last three years by the entity or any of its promoters or any of their group entities
• The entity should not be completing 10 years of incorporation on or before March 31st, 2024. 

How to fill apllication

Visit https://www.startupindia.gov.in to apply online.

• Participation in the National Startup Awards is voluntary
• Award application form is to be filled in English only
• One startup can nominate itself in maximum 2 categories
• Documents needed for upload:
  • Certificate of Recognition issued by DPIIT
  • Certificate of Incorporation/Certificate from the Registrar of Firms
  • Memorandum of Association, Partnership deed or other government accepted proof as proof for a woman founder (if applicable)
  • PAN card for founder/ co-founder
  • Aadhar card for founder/ co – founder
  • Startup Pitch Deck (Not more than 10 slides)
  • Trade specific registrations
  • Proof of Patent, IPR (if applicable)
  • Audited financial statements for the past 3 years (Profit & Loss Statement, Balance Sheet and Income Tax Return) or Provisional financial statements issued by a Chartered Accountant, in case of non availability of audited financials for FY 2021-22.
  • Please attach all relevant documents, MOUs or agreements that would make your application stand out, specially, to differentiate your application and to make it more relevant and specific for the applied category.Eg : Proof of admission into academic institution or proof of graduation or any other relevant document for your application under ‘Next Gen Innovator’.
  • Product proof of manufacturing and ownership certificates for manufacturing facility for your application under ‘Indigenous Ingenuity Champion’ and etc.
  • 120 seconds video explaining your product or service (this video cannot be a YouTube link; it has to be made for application to National Startup Awards). The video should cover – business model, scalability, innovation, social & economic impact on environment
  • Self attested documents with proof of active users, number of employees hired, R&D and prototype development, proof of funding raised, proof of TRL level of startup (if applicable)

Awardees

Awardees of 2023

To view the list of awardees of  National Startup Awards 2023, click here.

Awardees of 2022

The National Startup Awards 2022 invited applications across 17 sectors which were further divided into 50 sub sectors, and 7 special categories. The sectors included Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Construction, Drinking Water, Education & Skill Development, Energy, Enterprise Technology, Environment, Fintech, Food Processing, Health & Wellness, Media and entertainment, Industry 4.0, Security, Space, Transport and Travel.

To view the list of awardees of  National Startup Awards 2022, click here.

Awardees of 2021

The National Startup Awards 2020 and 2021 have recognized 367 startups as winners and finalists, who have been supported in growing their business and creating large scale impact in the country and globally.

To view the list of awardees of  National Startup Awards 2021, click here.

For the complete award guidelines, click here.

Source : https://www.startupindia.gov.in/