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Awards Program27th April, 2013
Awesome Startup Workplaces Awards - 2013
About the Initiative
• The 1st ever ‘employer of choice’ awards program for startups
• Based on employee opinions captured through a confidential online survey
• Open to startups from across sectors• Eligibility criteria:– Startups established in 2006 or later– At least 15 full time employees as on 31st March, 2013
Process
Self nomination by companies
Online pledge of fair-play by CEO/ Founder
Survey link sent to companies to share with employees
Employees respond to confidential survey
Tabulation of results
Questionnaire & Methodology
Autonomy & FlexibilityCollaborationCo-workers
CultureFairness and EmpathyInformation Sharing
InnovationLeadership
Nature of WorkPay & Recognition
Vision-Mission Alignment
11 Parameters with 2 statements for each:
To what extent do you agree with the
statement as it applies to your
current company
How important is this for you as a
startup employee
Analyzed on 2 dimensions
Satis
facti
onIm
port
ance
•I understand why my company exists and am fully aware of our business goals•I understand how my work contributes to achieving these goals
Weightage of each parameter
determined by analysing all
responses across companies
Weighted average of satisfaction
scores calculated for each company
Results – Top 15 Awesome Startup Workplaces
Aurus Network is a cloud based platform for delivering live and on-demand, rich media based online/distance
education/training programs.
Founded in: 2010Location(s): Bangalore
Results – Top 15 Awesome Startup Workplaces
BlazeClan Technologies delivers scalable, reliable and cost-effective Cloud solutions to enterprises, helping them to
build and deliver concepts to market faster
Founded in: 2010Location(s): Pune
Results – Top 15 Awesome Startup Workplaces
CloudByte is a software-defined storage company that offers guaranteed quality of service (QoS) to every
application from a shared storage platform.
Founded in: 2011Location(s): Bangalore, CampBell (CA, USA)
Results – Top 15 Awesome Startup Workplaces
Deep Red Ink provides consulting & business solutions for using the power of relationships to create powerful
business results
Founded in: 2010Location(s): Hyderabad
Results – Top 15 Awesome Startup Workplaces
Dexetra Software Solutions focussed on building mobile first products at the intersection of cloud and machine
intelligence
Founded in: 2010Location(s): Bangalore
Results – Top 15 Awesome Startup Workplaces
DogSpot is an online destination for all pet lovers. It’s a social network with integrated ecommerce platform.
Founded in: 2011Location(s): Gurgaon
Results – Top 15 Awesome Startup Workplaces
Druva Software is a product company committed to pioneering path breaking technologies in the areas of
Continuous end point Data Protection & Disaster Recovery
Founded in: 2010Location(s): Pune, London (UK), Mountain View (CA, USA)
Results – Top 15 Awesome Startup Workplaces
Helpshift is a customer service helpdesk that is redefining how companies handle customer service on mobile.
Founded in: 2011Location(s): Pune, San Francisco (CA, USA)
Results – Top 15 Awesome Startup Workplaces
Interviewstreet has an enterprise product to help companies screen programmers using coding challenges. Their B2c product, hackerrank is an online community of
hackers in different domains of Computer Science
Founded in: 2011Location(s): Bangalore, Mountain View (CA, USA)
Results – Top 15 Awesome Startup Workplaces
iXigo.com is India's leading travel planning & search website
Founded in: 2007Location(s): Gurgaon
Results – Top 15 Awesome Startup Workplaces
Moolya offers the world's first exploratory testing and context driven testing services
Founded in: 2010Location(s): Bangalore
Results – Top 15 Awesome Startup Workplaces
PayU India is India’s fastest growing online payments company, serving more than 4,000 online businesses
Founded in: 2011Location(s): Gurgaon, Mumbai, Bangalore
Results – Top 15 Awesome Startup Workplaces
Plivo Communications is a Cloud Telephony Platform which enables Enterprises and Developers to build powerful Voice
and SMS applications across the globe.
Founded in: 2010Location(s): Bangalore, San Francisco (CA, USA)
Results – Top 15 Awesome Startup Workplaces
RedQuanta is South-East Asia’s leading and fastest growing, Mystery Audit Service Provider
Founded in: 2009Location(s): Mumbai
Results – Top 15 Awesome Startup Workplaces
Rolocule Games is a game development and research studio that creates easy to play - console quality games and
technologies.
Founded in: 2010Location(s): Pune
And the “Awesomest” of the Awesome are…
Winner
1st Runner Up
2nd Runner Up