Porter Founders Pranav Goel and Uttam Digga Receive EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2025 Award

EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2025 Awards

Porter's Co-Founders Pranav Goel and Uttam Digga Win Start-up Category

The EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2025 Awards have recognized Porter's visionary leadership and transformative impact on India's intra-city logistics landscape. Porter, a technology-driven logistics company, has been named the winner of the Start-up category by an 11-member jury. This recognition underscores Porter's role in reshaping India's intra-city logistics ecosystem through customer-centric solutions.

Porter has catalysed the formalisation of intra-city goods transport by enabling a shift from informal, cash-based transactions to a structured, digitally documented, and traceable system. Today, the company serves nearly 30 lakh MSMEs monthly, across 41 cities, supported by a network of over 3 lakh driver-partners monthly.

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EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2025 Winners Across Eight Categories

• Deepinder Goyal of Eternal Ltd won the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2025 award
• Abhishek Lodha of Lodha Group won in the Energy, Real Estate and Infrastructure category
• Ajay Bhardwaj of Anthem Biosciences won in the Life Sciences and Healthcare category
• Gopal Vittal of Bharti Airtel won in the Entrepreneurial CEO category
• Jasbir Singh of Amber Enterprises won in the Manufacturing category
• Karan Bhagat of 360 One WAM won in the Services category
• Sunil Vachani of Dixon Technologies won in the Business Transformation category
• Vir S Advani of Blue Star won in the Consumer Products & Retail category

Collective Impact of Winners

The EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2025 winners boast a collective revenue of nearly INR 4 lakh crore with a combined market cap of over INR 22 lakh crore and provide employment to almost 2.8 lakh people.

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Uday Kotak Honoured with Special Jury Award

Veteran banker and Chairman of Gift City, Uday Kotak, has been honoured with the Special Jury Award for his transformative contributions to the Indian banking and finance industry and his enduring impact on generations of entrepreneurs.