1. India’s leading comprehensive online platform for entrepreneurs
Awards Program
27th April, 2013
Awesome Startup Workplaces
Awards - 2013

2. 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

3. 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

4. Questionnaire & Methodology
Autonomy & Flexibility
Collaboration
Co-workers
Culture
Fairness and Empathy
Information Sharing
Innovation
Leadership
Nature of Work
Pay & 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
SatisfactionImportance
•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

5. 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: 2010
Location(s): Bangalore

6. 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: 2010
Location(s): Pune

7. 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: 2011
Location(s): Bangalore, CampBell (CA, USA)

8. 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: 2010
Location(s): Hyderabad

9. 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: 2010
Location(s): Bangalore

10. 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: 2011
Location(s): Gurgaon

11. 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: 2010
Location(s): Pune, London (UK), Mountain View (CA, USA)

12. Results – Top 15 Awesome
Startup Workplaces
Helpshift is a customer service helpdesk that is redefining
how companies handle customer service on mobile.
Founded in: 2011
Location(s): Pune, San Francisco (CA, USA)

13. 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: 2011
Location(s): Bangalore, Mountain View (CA, USA)

14. Results – Top 15 Awesome
Startup Workplaces
iXigo.com is India's leading travel planning & search
website
Founded in: 2007
Location(s): Gurgaon

15. Results – Top 15 Awesome
Startup Workplaces
Moolya offers the world's first exploratory testing and
context driven testing services
Founded in: 2010
Location(s): Bangalore

16. 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: 2011
Location(s): Gurgaon, Mumbai, Bangalore

17. 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: 2010
Location(s): Bangalore, San Francisco (CA, USA)

18. Results – Top 15 Awesome
Startup Workplaces
RedQuanta is South-East Asia’s leading and fastest
growing, Mystery Audit Service Provider
Founded in: 2009
Location(s): Mumbai

19. 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: 2010
Location(s): Pune

20. And the “Awesomest” of the
Awesome are…
Winner
1st Runner Up
2nd Runner Up