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Bharti Airtel Airtel Indias premier communications solutions provider today announced winners of first ever Airtel IQ hackathon. Gurgaon based Green Receipt Frazor BFSI from Udaipur and Delhis Vizard Info were declared winners by the jury. The hackathon was launched in September this year with the objective of identifying and building new- age business solutions across five key sectors of economy such as BFSI Retail Ecommerce Travel and hospitality Ed-Tech and Contact centre which can potentially improve livelihoods and contribute to the sustainable and economic growth of the country.The Hackathon received over 9000 entries confirming participation from students corporates and ISVs. These were further shortlisted to 300 then to 23 in semi-finals from which 10 teams were invited to participate in a two round finale. The finale saw teams present their solution to a jury comprising Mr Vineeth R Nair Director IT Byjus Ms Jigyasa Kishore Chief Strategy Officer Moglix and Mr Gaurav Agnihotri from Airtel.The winners received a sum of Rs. 20 lacs as cash award and the best ideas amongst them are eligible to receive potential funding from Airtels Startup accelerator program. All the participants can leverage Airtels core platform strengths of data distribution network and payments besides its partner ecosystem.The Hackathon witnessed number of ground-breaking solutions aimed at solving real-world business and customer experience problems- from providing travel convenience delivering English literacy curriculum to the students in the remotest locations of India to enabling single-click payment of gas bills and others.Speaking about the Hackathon Mr Abhishek Biswal Business Head Airtel IQ said We are delighted with the scale and level of entries received in this hackathon. We are looking forward to working with all the participants- ISVs developers to build innovative solutions. These robust scalable solutions will help Enterprises MSMEs to deliver world-class customer experience and further boost the ease of doing business in India.The Winners1. Green Receipt Gurgaon Category BFSI Retail2. Frazor BFSI Udaipur Category CRM3. Vizard Info Delhi Category Retail and HyperpersonalisationThe hackathon is part of a range of projects Airtel has initiated with the goal of developing and enhancing Indias technology talent and it will become an annual feature going forward.
