SaaSBoomi Awards

Annual awards to celebrate exemplary SaaS startups of India

About

Our startup ecosystem is thriving with people building businesses and adding value to the lives of others. We know this isn’t easy and that’s why we introduced SaaSBoomi Awards to honor SaaS companies that are doing extraordinarily well in their spaces. We have had three editions of SaaSBoomi Awards for startups that exemplify authenticity and integrity in seven categories.

Venue & Date

SaaSBoomi Annual in Chennai, early March

Winners at SaasBoomi Awards 2022

SaaS Startup of the year

Breakout SaaS Startup of the year

Bootstrapped SaaS Startup of the year

Infra Tool SaaS Startup of the year

Emerging SaaS Startup of the year

Vertical SaaS Startup of the year

Who can apply?

SaaS companies that have products generating recurring revenue (whether monthly, quarterly or annual)

Indian SaaS Companies – founded by Indian founders with a significant presence in India

They should have been in existence for over 12 months

Award Winner of 2020

SaaS Startup of the year
Breakout SaaS Startup of the year
Bootstrapped SaaS Startup of the year
Dev Tool SaaS Startup of the year
Vertical SaaS Startup of the year
Deeptech SaaS Startup of the year
Category Creator SaaS Startup of the year
Moonshot SaaS Startup of the year

Award Categories

Wunderkind SaaS Startup of the year

For startups by young founders (below 25 years of age) that have achieved preternatural success.

Developer, Tools and Infra SaaS Startup

For startups that are building tools for developers, DevOps, DataOps, Security Ops or those used by applications or infrastructure teams, and have received critical acclaim for the same.

Emerging SaaS startup of the year

For startups below $1M in revenue that have achieved phenomenal traction in their journeys from the start.

Vertical SaaS startup of the year

For startups that play in a vertical domain and have achieved phenomenal traction within that domain, be it in terms of revenue or customers.

Bootstrapped SaaS Startup of the year

For startups that have scaled without raising any institutional money (over $100K) and only rely on revenue to fund and grow their operations.

Breakout SaaS startup of the year

For startups that have achieved phenomenal traction or recognition in the recent past, whether through a pivot, paradigm shift, focussed execution or through acceleration of funding.

SaaS Startup of the year

For the best SaaS startup of India, which has achieved great heights at a global level and serves as a lighthouse for all other SaaS entrepreneurs in India. The jury will select this from among all the SaaS startups in India.

How it works

1. Applications & Nominations

Startups can apply for themselves or nominate others. Each startup can enter a maximum of 2 categories.

2. Shortlisting of Startups

The jury will shortlist startups for each category through a transparent process.

3. Shortlisting of Finalists

The jury will shortlist five finalists for each category through a transparent process.

4. Selection of Winners

The jury will deliberate on the finalists and select the winner for each category through a voting mechanism.

5. Announcement of Winners

The names of winners will be announced and trophies will be presented at an Awards ceremony in Chennai.

Meet our Jury Members

Aneesh Reddy

Co-Founder & CEO, Capillary Technologies

Ashwini Asokan

CEO & Founder, Vue.ai – Mad Street Den brands

Girish Mathrubootham

CEO & Founder, Freshworks

Krish Subramanian

Co-founder & CEO, Chargebee

Manav Garg

Founder & CEO, Eka Software

Suresh Sambandam

CEO, Kissflow

Organising Team

Avinash Raghava

Founding Volunteer & CEO, SaaSBoomi

Pallav Nadhani

Managing Partner, Seeders Venture Capital

Prajna Chandra Arikathota

Operations Manager, SaaSBoomi

Sumanth Raghavendra

Co-Founder & CEO, Presentations.ai

Vinod Muthukrishnan

Founder & CEO, Cloudcherry (acq by Cisco)

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