{"id":1031359,"date":"2026-08-27T07:49:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T02:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031359"},"modified":"2026-08-27T07:59:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T02:29:34","slug":"et-startup-awards-2026-groww-adjudged-no-1-sauce-vcs-manu-chandra-named-midas-touch-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/27\/et-startup-awards-2026-groww-adjudged-no-1-sauce-vcs-manu-chandra-named-midas-touch-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"ET Startup Awards 2026: Groww adjudged No. 1; Sauce VC\u2019s Manu Chandra named Midas Touch winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wealthtech platform Groww won the coveted Startup of the Year at the 12th edition of The Economic Times Startup Awards, beating back a stiff challenge from other pioneers Meesho, Skyroot, Porter, Rapido and Sarvam. <\/p>\n<p>The elite jury, chaired by Wipro executive chairman Rishad Premji, picked Manu Chandra, founder and managing partner at consumer-focused investment firm Sauce VC, for the high-profile Midas Touch award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wealthtech platform Groww won the coveted Startup of the Year at the 12th edition of The Economic Times Startup Awards, beating back a stiff challenge from other pioneers Meesho, Skyroot, Porter, Rapido and Sarvam. The elite jury, chaired by Wipro executive chairman Rishad Premji, picked Manu Chandra, founder and managing partner at consumer-focused investment firm Sauce VC, for the high-profile Midas Touch award.<\/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-1031359","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\/1031359","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=1031359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031379,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031359\/revisions\/1031379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}