BioStartUps honours young leaders of life sciences segment

BioStartUps announces winners of NextGen Entrepreneur Awards

At the second edition of the BioStartUps event- Founders & Investors Forum 2025, held on 1st August 2025 at the CIDCO Convention Centre, Navi Mumbai, BioStartUps announced winners of NextGen Entrepreneur Awards, to honour young leaders in biotechnology and life sciences who are driving transformative breakthroughs. These visionary entrepreneurs are shaping the future of the industry and inspiring the next generation of innovators.

The awards were presented to the winners by Dr Manish Diwan, Head - Biofoundry, NCR Biotech Cluster & IVCOL, Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), under Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India.

Winners list-

• Startup to Watch Out: Life Sciences & AI Convergence- Avay Biosciences
• Innovator of the Year- Exsure
• Trailblazing Women-led Startup of the Year- Pragmatech Healthcare Solutions
• Breakthrough Diagnostic Technology of the Year- Soulsense Innovations
• Mentor of the year- Life Sciences & Biotechnology- Dr Vishal G Warke from HiMedia Laboratories
• Most Promising Startup of the Year- Peptris Technologies
• HealthTech Startup of the Year- Genefiteletics
• MedTech Pioneer of the Year- Startoon Labs
• Emerging Life Sciences Company- Abdos Life Sciences
• Bioincubator of the Year (Tier-1)- Atal Incubation Centre- Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology
• Bioincubator of the Year (Tier-2)- Manipal-GoK Bioincubator

 Founders & Investors Forum 2025 connected with biotech entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, angel investors, bioincubators, and government officials. Experts gathered and deliberated upon current challenges and opportunities facing the biotech startups such as funding, scale up, global collaborations, regulations, IP, gaps between science and business etc.

Published on : 04th August, 2025