{"id":971278,"date":"2025-11-03T07:48:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T02:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=971278"},"modified":"2025-11-03T08:01:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T02:31:26","slug":"et-startup-awards-2025-maturing-startups-celebrate-being-the-stock-of-the-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/03\/et-startup-awards-2025-maturing-startups-celebrate-being-the-stock-of-the-town\/","title":{"rendered":"ET Startup Awards 2025: Maturing startups celebrate being the stock of the town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From having to face early questions about survival to blockbuster IPOs, Indian startups have come a long way in the past decade. The 11th edition of The Economic Times Startup Awards (ETSA) turned into a celebration of this remarkable journey. <\/p>\n<p>With Urban Company, which went public in September, being picked as ET Startup of the Year 2025 and Lenskart\u2019s founder and CEO Peyush Bansal&#8211;currently steering the eyewear firm through its IPO book-building process&#8211;taking centre stage in a fireside chat, this year\u2019s event was held against the backdrop of eagerly watched public market debuts by new-age companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From having to face early questions about survival to blockbuster IPOs, Indian startups have come a long way in the past decade. The 11th edition of The Economic Times Startup Awards (ETSA) turned into a celebration of this remarkable journey. With Urban Company, which went public in September, being picked as ET Startup of the Year 2025 and Lenskart\u2019s founder and CEO Peyush Bansal&#8211;currently steering the eyewear firm through its IPO book-building process&#8211;taking centre stage in a fireside chat, this year\u2019s event was held against the backdrop of eagerly watched public market debuts by new-age companies.<\/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-971278","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\/971278","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=971278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}