Award Categories
2021
*based on ratings of employees who have worked
in the company in the year 2020
Categories are based on Indian employee count of respective companies. Ranks are awarded by Standard Competition ranking method.
10 Best Internet Companies
Mega companies category
more than 50,000 employees in India
#1 Amazon
From an online bookstore to one of the world’s largest e-commerce platforms, Amazon has emerged as the top player in the industry since its inception in 1994. Amazon has built an extensive online marketplace across continents, empowering its customers with a catalog encompassing products from A-Z. Amazon strives to be the world’s most customer-centric company, a purpose that has powered multiple breakthroughs in our delivery, supply chain, and customer support services. In the pursuit of operational efficiency, tech innovations have become the cornerstone of the organization. This has led to the pioneering of new services, most notably within the entertainment, publishing, finance, IT, cloud computing, AI, and Machine Learning industries.<br /><br />At the heart of our services and innovations lies our exceptional talent network, which works on behalf of our customers. Customer obsession, passion for innovation, enhancing operational efficiency, and long-term thinking are the values guiding our workforce. Employees have the space to experiment, even if it means encountering failures. This idea ties back to our “Day 1” mentality, where employees are encouraged to ideate like entrepreneurs and renew their efforts the next day with their learnings. Employees have routes to upskill and reinvent themselves through various educational and leadership programs offered by Amazon. These programs are designed to enable them with the know-how to engineer solutions with real-world impact.<br /><br />From its global footprint to its local presence in India, Amazon's operations span continents. With key corporate offices in Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi, and Pune, Amazon’s offices are designed to foster collaboration and invention, with suitable amenities to keep employees recharged throughout the day.<br /><br />Know more: <a href="https://www.amazon.jobs/en/landing_pages/working-at-amazon?cmpid=JB_A2IS200597B" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.amazon.jobs/en/landing_pages/working-at-amazon?cmpid=JB_A2IS200597B</a>
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Large companies category
10,001 to 50,000 employees in India
#1 Flipkart
The Flipkart Group is one of India’s leading digital commerce entities and includes group companies Flipkart, Myntra, and Jabong. Launched in 2007, Flipkart has enabled millions of consumers, sellers, merchants and small businesses to be a part of India’s e-commerce revolution. With a registered customer base of over 100 million, offering over 80 million products across 80+ categories, Flipkart is known for pioneering services such as Cash on Delivery, No Cost EMI and easy returns – customer-centric innovations that have made online shopping more accessible and affordable for millions of Indians. Together with Myntra and Jabong, which hold prominent positions in the online fashion market, the Flipkart Group has steered the transformation of commerce in India through technology.
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#2 Ecom Express
<p>Ecom Express Limited is a leading end-to-end technology enabled logistics solutions provider to the Indian retail and e-commerce industry. Headquartered in Gurugram, Haryana, Ecom Express was incorporated in 2012 by Manju Dhawan, K. Satyanarayana, Late T. A. Krishnan and Late. Sanjeev Saxena with decades of cumulative experience in the Indian logistics and distribution services, catering to e-commerce marketplaces, platforms, D2C brands, and small and large online sellers.</p><span><br></span><p>Ecom Express uses cutting-edge technology and automated solutions to enable end-to-end logistics and supply chain solutions across India serving 27,000+ pin codes throughout India. The company provides first-mile pickup, processing, network operation, last mile delivery, reverse logistics and returns management under its flagship service – Ecom Express Services (EXS). The company also offers a complete suite of supply chain, storage, and fulfillment solutions under its service line – Ecom Fulfillment Services (EFS).</p><span><br></span><p>Through the company’s decade long journey, it has built scalable, reliable and automated infrastructure with 3,738 large facilities, gateways and delivery centers (as of FY 2024). The company also has 3,420+ delivery centers to reach length and breadth of India. The company has delivered nearly 2 billion shipments to 97% of Indian households. The company has robust technology, AI/ML and data sciences capabilities supporting proprietary tech-stack and dedicated supply chain environment for reliable customer experience.</p>
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#3 Delhivery
Delhivery is India's largest e-commerce enablement company. Our mission is to fulfill all of India's online consumption demand through best-in-class industry solutions,domain expertise and pan-India operations. Delhivery offers extensive services ranging from last mile deliveries, third party fulfillment,warehousing services and software solutions such as channel integration software for sellers selling across multiple platforms. Delhivery's flexible set of services makes it easier for sellers and consumers to connect faster. Five years into the industry, Delhivery handles over 250,000 shipments per day for over 100,000+ merchants, 25000+ clients and 1800+ retailers across 450+ cities. We provide a modular set of e-commerce technologies and logistics solutions to over 6600+ pin codes.
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Mid-Sized companies category
1,001 to 10,000 employees in India
#1 Kinara Capital
Kinara Capital is a socially responsible fintech propelling financial inclusion of small business entrepreneurs in India. We are addressing the credit gap for MSME Manufacturing, Trading and Services sectors with fast and flexible collateral-free business loans in the range of INR 1-30 lakhs. In offering both digital and doorstep customer service options, small businesses appreciate the convenience of Kinara’s fast 24-hour direct disbursements and flexible payment options on 400+ apps, such as Google Pay. Data-driven automated credit decisioning (AI/ML)enables us to lend confidently without relying on property collateral or credit scores. Headquartered in Bangalore, we operate 133 branches in 90+ cities across Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, and UT Puducherry. We are qualified as a Systemically Important NBFC by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and a debt listed entity on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). Watch this video to know more about us and hear from our customers.
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#2 Swiggy
Swiggy is India’s leading on-demand delivery platform with a tech-first approach to logistics and a solution-first approach to consumer demands. With a presence in 500 cities across India, partnerships with hundreds of thousands of restaurants, an employee base of over 5000, a 2 lakh+ strong independent fleet of Delivery Executives, we deliver unparalleled convenience driven by continuous innovation.
Built on the back of robust ML technology and fuelled by terabytes of data processed every day, Swiggy offers a fast, seamless and reliable delivery experience for millions of customers across India.
From starting out as a hyperlocal food delivery service in 2014, to becoming a logistics hub of excellence today, our capabilities result not only in lightning-fast delivery for customers, but also in a productive and fulfilling experience for our employees.
With Swiggy’s New Supply and the recent launches of Swiggy Instamart, Swiggy Genie and Health Hub, we are consistently making waves in the market, while continually growing the opportunities we offer our people.
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#3 Udaan
Udaan is a network-centric B2B trade platform, designed specifically for small & medium businesses in India. It brings traders, wholesalers, retailers, manufacturers, and brands in India onto a single platform. With real insights into active trends and great B2B trade features, udaan brings to them the power of technology to scale & nurture their business.
The easy-to-use app gives you the power to:
- DISCOVER customers, suppliers & products across numerous categories
- BUY & SELL on your terms – with secure payments & smooth logistics
- GROW your network through repeats & relationships with like-minded parties
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Small companies category
501 to 1,000 employees in India
#1 Aye Finance
<p>We are a finance company aiming to provide innovative and customer centered financial services to micro and small businesses through knowledgeable team, effective technology and robust processes, to power their growth into the new-age India. Over 60 million small and micro businesses in India face a huge obstacle to their progress – lack of access to formal banking system and capital. Many of them are in unorganized sectors, do not maintain detailed business accounts, do not have any credit history and loan needs are often very small. We aim to bridge this gap.</p><span><br></span>
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#2 OLX
We are one of the world’s fastest-growing networks of trading platforms, operating in 30+ countries around the world.
We help people buy and sell cars, find housing, get jobs, buy and sell household goods, and much more. With more than 20 well-loved local brands including Avito, OLX, Otomoto, and Property24, our solutions are built to be safe, smart, and convenient for our customers.
We are powered by a team of 10,000+ people, working across 5 continents in offices all around the world.
We love to unlock value for our customers. Every single month, 300 million people use our platforms to easily, safely, and conveniently find their perfect home, buy or sell a car, find a great job, sell things they no longer need, or strike a great deal on something they need. And we help thousands of entrepreneurs and businesses find their customers too.
We also unlock value within our company. We invest in ourselves and each other to reach our full potential. We avoid bureaucracy and empower our teams to innovate. Our commitment to inclusion ensures we listen to a diverse range of voices when making decisions. And, we combine the spirit and agility of a startup with our global scale and the backing of Prosus, one of the largest consumer internet groups in the world.
Last but not least, we unlock value for our stakeholders. We are proud of the positive contribution we make to our planet, by enabling more conscious consumption and helping the world make the most of its limited resources through more efficient trade.
We are committed to our cause: shaping the future of trade to unlock the hidden value in everything.
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#3 Agrostar
AgroStar is India’s foremost AgTech start-up working on the mission of #HelpingFarmersWin by providing a complete range of agri solutions at the fingertips of farmers. AgroStar’s tech platform provides a combination of agronomy advice coupled with service and agri input products that enable farmers to significantly improve their productivity and income.
We use an extensive amount of data, technology and agronomy knowledge to give the right solutions (advice+products) to Indian farmers.
AgroStar currently operates in the states of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Uttar Pradesh and has over 5 Lakh farmers on its digital platform. Farmers in these states can avail agri solutions for their entire crop life-cycle with a simple “missed call” or through its Android app, which is amongst the highest rated farming focused apps in the country.
Over the next 5 years, we plan to continue to provide incremental value to farmers in terms of wide range of inputs delivered at their doorsteps, world-class agronomy guidance and also access to market linkages and credit.
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How is a company classified as Mega, Large, Mid-Sized, Small, and Startup?
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- Mega category if it has more than 50k employees
- Large category if it has employees b/w 10k & 50k
- Mid-Sized category if it has employees b/w 1k & 10k
- Small category if it has employees b/w 501 & 1k
- Startup if
- It leverages technology for their business in a significant way
- Should not be a public company or started by another company
- It has been founded on or after 01-January-2011
- It has employees more than 200
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Refer to the complete methodology here.
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