{"id":3327,"date":"2022-04-20T11:20:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T11:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.matsio.com\/matsio\/saasboomi\/?p=3327"},"modified":"2024-05-16T10:03:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T10:03:25","slug":"finalists-of-the-saasboomi-2021-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.matsio.com\/matsio\/saasboomi\/saas\/events\/finalists-of-the-saasboomi-2021-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Finalists of SaaSBoomi Awards 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

When we launched the inaugural <\/span>SaaSBoomi awards<\/span><\/a> in 2020, the world was just about waking up to the horrors of the pandemic. The intent of instituting a new award during this grim time was rooted in the hope that it would serve as a rallying point for inspiring all other SaaS startups in India.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As it turned out, the pandemic accelerated the shift towards online and digital services and the world of SaaS emerged more buoyant than ever before. With billions of fresh funding capital chasing ambitious founders looking to dent large markets, we are on the cusp of a new digital order with India definitively establishing itself as one of the most important SaaS hubs of the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

The second edition of the SaasBoomi Awards is therefore an attempt to recognize and laud companies who are poised to take up important positions in the firmament of this new world order.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even in this bold new environment, our North Star continues to be an honest and community-driven attempt to recognize exemplary startups, several of whom might not have come to public attention otherwise and celebrate the extraordinary aspirations and efforts of Indian SaaS founders.<\/span><\/p>\n

The SaaSBoomi Awards Process<\/b><\/h2>\n

As in the previous inaugural edition, the second season of the SaaSBoomi Awards followed a regimented and transparent process.<\/span><\/p>\n

We finalized eight award categories – based on feedback from the community, we dropped the Moonshot category from the previous edition and replaced it with a new category called “Emerging startup of the year” to recognize nascent startups below $1M in revenue but have achieved phenomenal early traction or have attracted wide praise for an original solution approach. The rest of the categories are the same as the previous year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our call for applications received an overwhelming response – we were pleasantly surprised with not just the quantity but also the quality of the applications.<\/span><\/p>\n

There was a great diversity of companies in the Breakout and Vertical SaaS categories and we saw many early stage companies with great products focusing on PMF, distribution and big rounds of funding in the Emerging startup category.\u00a0 We would have loved to see more companies in the Dev Tools category in the future<\/span><\/p>\n

From the applicants, we shortlisted a select set of four to six companies per category. The shortlisting was done using an objective process with a scoring system that was based on different parameters and measured on quantitative metrics.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The short-listed companies were evaluated by a high-quality jury:<\/span><\/p>\n