Girish Mathrubootham, CEO & Founder, Freshworks, has bagged the digital person of the year award at India Digital Awards 2022, organized by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI).

Girish is an inspiration to all Indian entrepreneurs building SaaS startups, IAMAI said.

In addition to creating a new and difficult category for the industry in India, the grand jury took notice of the firm’s successful debut on the Nasdaq stock exchange after a billion-dollar IPO last year.

As per an IAMAI press release, India Digital Awards (IDA) were instituted in the year 2009 and is one of the oldest awards for the digital industry.

Job searching app Apna received the digital startup of the year award.

In the digital agency of the year award, Interactive Avenues bagged the gold award, while Socheers (silver) and Blink Digital (bronze) were the first and second runners-up.

The top award categories at IDA are the best digital startup, digital agency, digital advertising agency, digital content award and social media award.

Over 750+ paid entries were received this year for 10 broad award categories, which included a number of sub-award segments.

About 120 winners were selected through a two-tier jury evaluation process. Dinesh Agarwal, Founder & CEO, IndiaMART; Dippak Khurana, Founder & CEO, Vserv; George Varghese, CEO, The Indian Express Group; Prashant Tandon, Co-Founder & CEO, Tata 1MG were some of the jury members for IDA this year.

With the support of Sharechat, a new category was introduced this year called the ‘Best Brands of Bharat’, while Amazon Pay supported the ‘Best Payments and Fintech’ category in this edition.