Emerge50

Overview
Celebrate with us the 10th anniversary year of NASSCOM Emerge 50 awards! Emerge 50 is now truly synonymous with high caliber, innovative software product companies helmed by never-say-die entrepreneurs. Emerge 50 has been consistently successful in spotting these emerging companies way before they achieve their pinnacle. Thus, providing greater visibility to the dark horses of the future. The winners are the startups and emerging companies that the world watch out for!
The 2018 edition of the awards is all set to get bigger and bolder. The competition is always getting tougher for India’s Most Innovative Top 50 Emerging Software Product Companies. The product landscape now exceeds the limit of software and finds synergy in hardware and other bodies of science. The jury too is stringent in their desire to recognize products that utilize deep technologies or those that are a results of intensive research. Vertical domain focus is an added advantage.
So tighten your seat belts and get set! NASSCOM’s marathon search for Emerge 50 2018 winners begins now!!
The 2018 edition of the awards is all set to get bigger and bolder. The competition is always getting tougher for India’s Most Innovative Top 50 Emerging Software Product Companies. The product landscape now exceeds the limit of software and finds synergy in hardware and other bodies of science. The jury too is stringent in their desire to recognize products that utilize deep technologies or those that are a results of intensive research. Vertical domain focus is an added advantage.
So tighten your seat belts and get set! NASSCOM’s marathon search for Emerge 50 2018 winners begins now!!
NASSCOM Emerge 50 2018 - Winners Announced!
Opportunities Galore!

Who Should Nominate
- A Registered/Incorporated Indian IT Product Company. OR Companies founded in India, but later moved to a foreign land for business reason and still has majority workforce in India.
- Nomination should be a Commercialized Product (not an idea/prototype/under development). No POC accounted i.e. Product should have paying customers.
- Total company revenue not more than INR 100 Crore.
Evaluation Parameters
Application Process

1- Nomination
Open till 7th July 2018
Nominations are invited in given format
2- Shortlisting
8th July - 20th Aug 2018
A panel of Jury rate shortlisted nominations to select Emerge 50
3- Jury Round
4th - 9th Sep 2018
Initial Shortlisting based on product, Market, vertical, technology adn business excellence
4- Showcase at NPC
2ndNov 2018
Felicitation and showcase at NPC B'lore
- Applications are invited from Innovative Product companies refer eligibility Criteria above.
- Companies will be shortlisted based on their Product, Market, Business, Vertical and Technology excellences.
- The shortlisted companies will present to a select panel of experts from the Industry (Jury) during September first week.
- Based on Jury rating, Top 50 will be selected as Emerge 50 companies of 2018
- League of 10 (top 10) of Emerge 50 will be felicitated with awards at NPC 2018, Bangalore
- All Emerge 50 awardees will be showcased at NPC, covered in media and NASSCOM will do their detailed profiling.
Jury in Past


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Alok Kejriwal
CEO & Co-Founder
Games2Win-
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Alok Mittal
Managing Director
Canaan Partners -
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Amit Boni
General Manager
Motorola Mobility, India -
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Anand Daniel
Investments
Forus Health, Pristine, Taxi for sure -
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Dr. Anand Deshpande
Founder, Chairman & MD
Persistent Systems Ltd. -
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Arun Seth
Non-Executive Chairman
Alcatel-Lucent, India hover
Avnish Sabharwal
Managing Director,
Accenture, India-
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Chetan Garga
Managing Director and Country Head,
Allstate - India -
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Dev Khare
Managing Director
Lightspeed Ventures India -
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Dhruv Singhal
Head Solution Architecture
Amazon, India -
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Dr G N Shrinivas
Senior Director Engineering,
Walmart Labs -
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Manav Garg
CEO & Founder
Eka Software Solutions -
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Mukund Mohan
CEO-in-residence
Microsoft Accelerator -
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Navyug Mohnot
CEO,
QAI -
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Pallav Nadhani
Co-founder
FusionCharts -
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Prakash Advani
Head
Canonical, India -
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Pramod Bhasin
Founder and Vice Chairman
Genpact -
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Ravi Gururaj
NASSCOM Product Council -
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Ramesh Loganathan
Managing Director and VP (Products),
Progress Software (India) -
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Ramkumar Narayanan
General Manager,
eBay - India -
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Sanjay Mehta
MAIA Intelligence hover
Sanjeev Aggarwal
Co-Founder & Sr MD
Helion Advisors Pvt. Ltd.-
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K. R. Sanjiv
Senior Vice President,
Wipro's Global IT Business -
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Taher Khorakiwala
Partner -
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Vinod Sood
Hughes Systique Corporation -
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Vijaya Kumar
Active member,
Indian Angel Network