Porter founders Pranav Goel, Uttam Digga win EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2025 in start-up category
Celebrating entrepreneurial excellence, EY has selected Porter co-founders Pranav Goel and Uttam Digga as winners of the Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2025 in the Startup category. A distinguished 11-member jury thanked Porter for his visionary leadership and the company’s transformative role in reshaping India’s urban logistics landscape through technology-driven innovation and customer-centric solutions.
This recognition underscores Porter’s impact in transforming India’s urban logistics ecosystem. The winners of the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Awards have been announced across eight categories celebrating outstanding entrepreneurial achievements. Additionally, Uday Kotak was awarded the Special Jury Award for his outstanding contributions to India’s business environment.
Over the years, Porter has facilitated the formalization of urban goods transportation by enabling a shift from informal, cash-based transactions to a structured, digitally documented and trackable system, making the daily movement of goods more measurable, reliable and more manageable for small businesses. Today, Porter serves nearly 30 lakh MSMEs per month across 41 cities, supported by a network of over 3 lakh monthly driver-partners who form the backbone of MSME business.
“Porter was founded to address long-standing inefficiencies in urban logistics/goods transportation, enabling more reliable movement of goods for small businesses while reducing idle time for drivers. Over the years, this has shaped our belief that economic progress begins with empowering the people who use it. We aspire to a future where Porter and reliable goods transportation are indistinguishable from each other,” said Porter CEO Uttam Digga. He further added, “This recognition reflects the trust of our driver partners and MSMEs, who form the foundation of India’s logistics ecosystem. I am grateful to our families, my co-founders, the Porter team and our ecosystem partners for their continuous support and collaboration.”
The winners in the categories are: Deepinder Goyal from Eternal Ltd named EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2025, Abhishek Lodha from Lodha Group in Energy, Real Estate and Infrastructure, Ajay Bhardwaj from Anthem Biosciences in Life Sciences and Healthcare, Gopal Vittal from Bharti Airtel in Entrepreneur CEO category, Jasbir Singh from Amber Enterprises in Manufacturing, Karan Bhagat from 360 One WAM in Services, Dixon in Business Transformation Sunil Vachani of Technologies and Vir S Advani of Blue Star in Consumer Products and Retail.
Highlighting the achievements of the winners, Rajiv Memani, Chairman and CEO, EY India, said: “Accelerated reforms, deeper global integration and the AI revolution are reshaping the Indian economy and unlocking unprecedented opportunities for entrepreneurs. Our 2025 winners represent the best of Indian entrepreneurship. Their stories remind us of the emergence of a new India inspired by bold ideas, world-class execution and continuous innovation. Heartfelt congratulations to all the winners for the extraordinary impact they have created.” “I do.”
These EOY 2025 winners boast of a collective revenue of around Rs 4 lakh crore with a total market capitalization of over Rs 22 lakh crore and employ almost 2.8 lakh people.
Uday Kotak, Padma Bhushan recipient, seasoned banker and now Chairman of Gift City, was awarded the Special Jury Prize for his transformative contributions to the Indian banking and finance sector and his lasting impact on generations of entrepreneurs.
