fintechawards2021

India, the 3rd largest fintech market globally, has almost matched its total fintech investment in 2020, with $2 billion in investment in H1’21, including merchant platform Pine Labs’ $285 million PE funding round and $100 million+ VC funding rounds by Cred ($215 million), RazorPay ($160 million), KreditBee ($153 million), Of Business ($110 million), and BharatPe ($108 million). Witness to such incredulous growth trends, the country’s fintech sector is projected to grow to a staggering US$84 billion by 2025

Spearheading this growth of fintech startups in India, NASSCOM 10,000 Startups and NIPP are proud to unveil the 3rd Edition of the NASSCOM India Fintech Awards. In 2021, the Awards will recognize and reward the emerging fintech startups driving the financial technology revolution with innovative solutions across six categories.

Eligibility:

Startup should be registered in India
Founded on and after 1st January 2018

Award Categories

Fintech of the year - Regulatory Compliance Tech

This award aims to recognise a Startup with the best use of technology to improve Regulatory compliance for a Bank or FIs
Fintech of the Year - Insurance

This award aims to recognise a Startup with the best insurance product that has improved Customer experience or the productivity in Insurance space
Fintech of the Year: Wealth Management

This award aims to recognize a fintech solution with best wealth management product for end-users or Tech tools for Wealth management companies
Fintech of the Year - Payments

This award aims to recognize a startup with the best payment solution provider who has excelled in its field, implementing payments technology or payments solution
Fintech of the Year – Retail Banking

This award aims to recognize the startups with the best Retail Banking product/ Solutions
Fintech of the Year - Lending

This award will recognise the best online, crowdfunding or P2P lending platform that offers either consumers or businesses a new and innovative way to access alternative finance.

Winner Rewards

Cash prizes of Rs. 1 lakh per category
Direct entry to NASSCOM 10,000 Startups program Virtual Incubation, Region Specific.
Opportunity to interact and network with corporate leaders and Investors throughout.
Finalists in each category will be showcased on NASSCOM 10,000 Startups social media handles and quarterly newsletters

selection process

Call for the Applications
Shortlisting of startups - Evaluation by corporate leaders
Startups pitch to Jury(Corporate leaders)at Grand Finale
Announcement of winners on Finale

Timelines

Application Last Date
Final Shortlist
Grand Finale
Winners Felicitation

Sponsors

Gold Sponsor

Silver Sponsor

Ecosystem Partners

Leaders Speak Series: Innovation in Fintech

13 October 2021	Leaders Speak - Innovation in Payments	Rahul Chari, Co-Founder and CTO, Phonepe	02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
14 October 2021	Leaders Speak - Innovation in Regulatory & Compliance tech	Jaya Vaidhyanathan, CEO at BCT Digital	02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
18 October 2021	Leaders Speak - Innovation in Retail Banking and Wealth Management	Seetharaman Venkatraman, Executive Director, Regional Innovation Office, Nomura Deena Jacob, CFO and Co-founder, Open Financial Technologies	02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
19 October 2021	Leaders Speak - Innovation in Insurance	Vivek Pandyarajan, Head Solutions Insurtech Integration, Swissre	02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
20 October 2021	Leaders Speak - Innovation in Lending	Abhinav Parashar, Co-Founder & CEO , DIGIO Nupur Gupta, Co-founder, NIRA to the "Innovation in Lending"	02:00 PM - 03:00 PM

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