Better decisions build enduring companies.
One institution that helps serious Indian founders make better company-building decisions. The Summit is its live expression: 250 people, deliberately composed, working real decisions. The Awards turn evidenced craft into standards: 21 recognitions, a world-class Jury Council, and every winner published as a case others can learn from.
The Summit and the Awards are registered for separately — a Summit seat doesn't enter you for the Awards, and an Awards entry doesn't claim a seat.
250
The room, deliberately composed
21
Award recognitions
18 Nov
One curated day
18
Months of evidence per case
Two marquees · One day
Summit by morning. Awards by evening.
Each one world-class in its own right, the Summit is where India's builders meet; the Awards are where they are honoured. One roof: The Leela Palace, Bengaluru.
18 Nov 2026
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The Leela Palace, Bengaluru
Bengaluru, India
Summit 08:30 · Awards 18:30
Dinner follows the ceremony
The Awards
21 recognitions. Craft, not fame.
The Awards recognise the specific decisions, systems, and teams that build enduring companies — never funding rounds, valuations, or celebrity. The unit of recognition is an evidenced case from the prior 18 months. One trophy per category, and "no winner" is always possible.
Product & Market
The decisions that made the product matter and the market move.
AI & Frontier Technology
AI and frontier engineering, at the core of the product and the company.
Company Building
The systems behind enduring companies.
People & Organisation
The teams, operators and talent systems behind the result.
Company & Apex
The standard-setters of the year.
21 categories · winners revealed on stage, 18 Nov 2026.
The jury
A rotating Jury Council. One standard.
Chaired by a global company-building leader. Founders and operators hold the majority. Accel convenes — and does not vote.
Satya Nadella
Chair, Jury Council
Chairman & CEO, Microsoft
Prashanth Prakash
Convenor (non-voting)
Founding Partner, Accel India
Platform
One platform, end to end.
The Summit creates the inputs. The Awards set the standards. The platform makes both useful again — better context improves the next room, match, case, and answer.
The Summit
The live expression: a 250-person room built from Working Problem Sessions, matched 1:1 meetings, Build Sessions, AI Rooms, and Craft Clinics. Judgement, access, high-trust relationships.
The Awards
Craft turned into standards: 21 recognitions, evidenced cases from the prior 18 months, a rotating Jury Council, a sealed envelope — and every winner published as a case.
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Seed to Scale Summit & Awards 2026
One deliberately composed day in Bengaluru: 250 serious founders, defined by what they're working through, not their stage. Working Problem Sessions, matched 1:1 meetings, Build Sessions, AI Rooms, and Craft Clinics through the day — and the Seed to Scale Awards in the evening: 21 recognitions, one evidenced case each.