Welcome to the NASSCOM EMERGE 50 Awards for 2011

Announcing the Finalists for NASSCOM EMERGE 50 Awards for 2011

Thank you once again for participating towards the NASSCOM EMERGE 50 Awards 2011. We are glad to announce that we witnessed massive interest from companies this year as well and received over 350 applications across different awards categories. As next steps, team Zinnov (Process partners for EMERGE 50 Awards) along with NASSCOM will work towards evaluating the applications based on robust framework covering the questions asked in the survey form:

Jury members for the showcase in

Bangalore:(10th , 11th and 12th October ’11)

  • Krishnakumar Natarajan – Chair EMERGE forum
  • Sharad Sharma – Chair Products forum
  • Anil Bakht – Eastern Software systems
  • Sanjay Anandram – Seedfund Ventures
  • Anal Jain – Bodhi Technologies
  • Jas Gulati – Computer Associates
  • N R K Raman – Former CEO, Oracle Financial Solutions

Delhi (13th October ’11)

  • Anil Bakht – Eastern Software systems
  • Alok Mittal – Canaan Partners
  • Vijay Shekar Sharma – One97 communications
  • Pavan Vaish – former CEO, IBM Daksh
  • Navyug Mohnot – QAI Global
  • Manav Garg – Eka Software

Thanks once again and we look forward to meeting you very soon.

Overview: We celebrate the 3rd year of our flagship EMERGE 50 Awards for 2011. The last 2 years witnessed phenomenal success in recognizing emerging Indian companies across all business sectors. The initiative showcased companies who established new business models, built innovative products and services or clocked fastest growth rates.

The NASSCOM EMERGE 50 awards for 2011 aims to highlight the next set of 50 emerging companies with the key objective of building the future companies for the country.

EMERGE Growth: Smart Investment in technology is the buzzword while business grapple with an uncertain economic environment globally. NASSCOM invites companies which are growing rapidly in terms of revenues, customer base, and newer markets and are all profitable to apply for the EMERGE awards in the GROWTH category

EMERGE Innovation: Innovation is a well agreed upon catalyst for growth in markets worldwide. History has seen many innovations in products, process, technologies, services and ideas to have positively affected markets, government and society at large. NASSCOM invites companies focused on Product/ service innovation, business model innovation, innovation in technology to apply for the EMERGE awards in the INNOVATION category.

EMERGE Startup: This category includes all products/ services by a start-up in the above categories (growth and innovation). Revenue would not be a parameter to short-list the companies. This would include companies which are less than 3 years old or which clocks less than INR 5 crore in annual revenues. NASSCOM invites such companies to apply for the EMERGE awards in the Startup category.

Process Partner:

Links: Overview of EMERGE 50 | Why Apply | EMERGE 50 – Sample form |

Announcing the Finalists for NASSCOM EMERGE 50 Awards for 2011League of EMERGENTS(2009 & 2010) | Process Partner – Zinnov | Contact us at emerge(at)nasscom.in

           
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