Andhra Pradesh recently hosted its first annual awards ceremony “StartAP Awards” that recognises startups, entrepreneurs not just in the state, but across the country as well. Held in Vizag, the event is one of the biggest platforms of, by, and for entrepreneurs, where thousands meet, share, learn, and collaborate. StartAP is the largest startup ecosystem enabler in the state of AP since 2014 with 3 major annual events till now impacting around 15000+ entrepreneurs, youngsters and students directly by bringing together forward thinking businessmen, startups, thought leaders and investors to Vizag and Vijayawada.
Thirty-five startups were chosen from a list of over 300 startups under various categories such as Social Entrepreneur, Innovative Startup, Clean Tech startup, Fintech startup and others. Besides, Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Vishakhapatnam, he winning startups were from across cities such as Dehradun and Delhi also. The jury included J A Chowdary, Special Chief Secretary, Govt of AP, Kirthiga Reddy, former MD Facebook India, Glenn Robinson, MD of XLr8 Andhra Pradesh Technology Business Accelerator, Divyank Turakhia, founder and CEO of Media.Net, Peter Vesterbacka, founder of Slush, Anurag Batra, chairman and editor in chief, BW Businessworld and Ramana Gogula, VP of Clean tech innovation at Stanley Black & Decker.
ChaiBisket is extremely delighted to have won the ‘Digital Media Startup of the Year' award. StartAP said, “The firm has been disrupting digital media by creating original content focussing on the Telugu states of AP and Telangana for few years now. More popular and connected with youth by talking issues that matter to videos & movies often well-received and been viral.”
Founded in 2015, ChaiBisket is the largest original content platform in Telugu. With over, 6000+ articles, ChaiBisket website is home to interesting text content, published in the form of fun articles on various genres including entertainment, people stories, food, travel, etc. Our videos have around 11 Million average monthly video views. ChaiBisket is also one of the most popular and active brands in the Telugu digital content space. With 1.1 million Facebook likes, 72K Twitter followers, 285k followers on Instagram, we’ve been quite a good influencing platform on social media.
Here’s the list of few other awardees: Startup of the year: Swiggy Entrepreneur of the Year: Ritesh Agarwal, Oyo Rooms founder Entrepreneurial excellence award: Sudhakar Reddi Chirra, founder, Abhibus Business Excellence award: Lakhsmi Putluri, co-founder, Jabong India Woman Entrepreneur of the year: Kanika Tekriwal, Jet Set Go Change maker of the year: Deepak Ramola, Project Fuel Brand Excellence award: Green Gold Animations Campus Entrepreneur award: KL University Social Innovation award: Mission Smartride Social Entrepreneur of the year award: Karthik Naralasetty Student Entrepreneurship of the year award: Gopi Raja of Fopple Technologies Youth leadership award: AIESAC India Best Emerging startup award: Stumagz BlockChain Startup award: Almora AgriTech startup award: SatSure Clean Tech startup award: Gayam Motor Works Best Emerging startup award: Picxy Innovation award: H-Bots Best pitch: Smart Port
