ET AI Awards & Conclave 2025: Meet the Innovation & Impacts Award winners accelerating AI at scale

The ET AI Awards & Conclave 2025 concluded with a grand finale on February 26, 2026, in Bengaluru, bringing together India’s most influential AI founders, technologists, enterprise leaders and policymakers. While the Leadership Awards honoured individuals shaping strategy and direction, the Innovation & Impacts Awards category focused on companies building and scaling AI-driven products across critical sectors of the economy.

As AI transitions from pilot programmes to core infrastructure, the 2025 winners demonstrated how domain-specific AI can deliver tangible operational efficiency, revenue growth, improved customer experience and national capability building.

The Innovation & Impacts Awards segment recognised organisations that have embedded AI into their business architecture, driving sustained competitive advantage and industry disruption.

Here is the complete list of winners of the ET AI Awards 2025 – Innovation & Impacts Awards:

1. AI Startup of the Year (FinTech and Payments): Perfios (CAM AI)
2. AI Startup of the Year (Life Sciences and Pharma): Qure.ai
3. AI Startup of the Year (Media and Entertainment): Pocket F
4. AI Startup of the Year (Supply Chain and Logistics): FarEye
   
5. AI Startup of the Year (Defence and Public Services): Digantara
6. AI Startup of the Year (E-commerce and Quick Commerce): Zepto
7. AI Startup of the Year (Trailblazer): Neysa
8. AI SME of the Year (Education and EdTech): Emversity
9. AI SME for Autonomous Intelligence: NewSpace Research and Technologies Private Limited
10. AI Enterprise of the Year (Banking and Financial Services Transformation): Pine Labs
11. AI-Native Large Enterprise: Jio Platforms
12. AI Enterprise of the Year (MedTech and Healthcare Innovation): Aragen Life Sciences Limited

This year’s Innovation & Impacts winners reflect the breadth of India’s AI deployment landscape. In fintech, AI is strengthening underwriting and credit intelligence. In healthcare, it is enabling earlier and more accurate diagnosis. In media and commerce, it is optimising personalisation, demand forecasting, and customer engagement. In logistics and defence, AI is doubling as mission-critical infrastructure for efficiency and strategic capability.

Collectively, these organisations demonstrate that India’s AI ecosystem is no longer defined by experimentation alone. It is increasingly characterised by sector-specific execution, enterprise-grade reliability and global market ambition.
As infrastructure matures and talent depth expands, the companies recognised under the Innovation & Impacts Awards signal a decisive shift. AI in India is moving from promise to production, from prototypes to platforms, and from isolated wins to systemic transformation across the economy.
The ET AI Conclave & Awards 2025 is driven by BYD and has L&T Finance as NBFC partner; Snowflake as AI data cloud partner; EY as evaluation partner; T-Hub as ecosystem partner; Zoho as technology partner; and Indri as celebration partner. Vahdam India, Vaaree, Natch, and Andamen are the event’s gifting partners.