ET Startup Awards 2025: Even Bengaluru traffic made way for the action unfolding

Twice every year, The Leela Palace in the centre of Bengaluru becomes the centre of India’s startup world — once for the crowning of the country’s undisputed entrepreneurial champs, and before that, for the jury to ruminate on who will be the first among equals.

This time, as the jury of luminaries descended on the venue for deliberations for the 2025 edition of ET Startup Awards, even the infamous Bengaluru roads decided to make things a tad easier than usual.

Flipkart honcho Kalyan Krishnamurthy was among those grateful that his drive up from…