{"id":1031351,"date":"2026-08-27T07:46:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T02:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031351"},"modified":"2026-08-27T07:57:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T02:27:26","slug":"et-startup-awards-2026-midas-touch-sauce-vcs-winning-recipe-earns-manu-chandra-the-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/27\/et-startup-awards-2026-midas-touch-sauce-vcs-winning-recipe-earns-manu-chandra-the-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"ET Startup Awards 2026 | Midas Touch: Sauce VC\u2019s winning recipe earns Manu Chandra the prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most high-profile categories at The ET Startup Awards 2026 \u2013 the Midas Touch award for best investor \u2013 witnessed closely contested deliberations, with jurors holding strong and divergent views on the contenders. After an extended discussion, the jury, led by Wipro executive chairman Rishad Premji, picked Sauce VC founder and managing partner Manu Chandra, recognising his record of backing companies early and delivering significant exits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most high-profile categories at The ET Startup Awards 2026 \u2013 the Midas Touch award for best investor \u2013 witnessed closely contested deliberations, with jurors holding strong and divergent views on the contenders. After an extended discussion, the jury, led by Wipro executive chairman Rishad Premji, picked Sauce VC founder and managing partner Manu Chandra, recognising his record of backing companies early and delivering significant exits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031373,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031351\/revisions\/1031373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}