​Celebrating Innovation: The Vibe Awards

​Vibe Awards is our monthly recognition effort towards our community, where we give back by honoring the visionaries who brought their A-game to our live pitch series. The Vibe Awards series is made to recognize the projects that didn't just dream big but delivered results.

​Evaluated by a premier panel of industry experts, these awards highlight the intersection of creativity, technical prowess, and market readiness.

​How It Works

• ​Eligibility: Exclusive to projects that successfully delivered a live demo and submitted to the Artizen pitch.

• ​Rigorous Judging: Each entry is reviewed by 10 or more top-tier judges across three specialized tracks.

• ​Evaluation Period: Judges will be reviewing submissions through April 30th.

​The Judges:

​Adarsh Mittal - NVIDIA

​Adithya Jakkaraju - HCLTech

​Aditya Arora - Citi

​Ahsaas Bajaj - Instacart

​Akintunde Opaleye - Parrot

​Alexander Jabbour - Rilla

​Alexander Salamandra - Amazon Web Services (AWS)

​Amit Rai - BlackRock

​Anita Blege - Northside Hospital

​Ankush Rastogi - Vail Systems

​Cagri Temel - Redditus

​Devdas Gupta - Charles Schwab

​Dhaarna Maheshwari - Millennium

​Dippu Kumar Singh - Fujitsu

​Divya Mahajan - Swissnex

​Gangadhar Sirugudi - SrinSoft Technologies

​Gayathri Balakumar - Capital One

​Gino Volpi - CETO & Co-Founder

​Jamil Merali - Pinterest

​Kalyan Inturi - Oracle

​Karl Pinto - PagerDuty

​Kasper Hytonen - Synchro Social

​Kavitha Thiyagarajan - Ascendion

​Kelvin Ngoc Nguyen Le - Harmonic

​Lokesh Karanam - RRD

​Madhvesh Kumar - Mastercard

​Masum Rana - University of South Dakota

​Mayur Shastri - Microsoft

​Michael Shaozhi Jiang - Google

​Navdeep Singh - Walmart

​Naveen Kumar Kotha - Blue Yonder

​Preetham Kaukuntla - Glassdoor

​Preeti Singh - Capgemini

​Priya Ranjan Sahoo - Oracle

​Ramanpreet Singh Khinda - LinkedIn

​Ramprasad Reddy Mittana - NSF

​Ritu Singh - The AI Consortium

​Samuel Maniraj Selvaraj - Veeva Systems

​Sandeep Ayloo - Walmart Global Tech

​Sandeep Kumar Chittimalli - National Science Foundation (NSF)

​Santhosh Kumar Veeramalla -Optum

​Shanthakumar Sivakumar - Wise Optimization

​Shujaatali Badami - Personal Personal Capacity

​Srilakshmi Baradwaj - LinkedIn

​Sumanth Shiva Prakash - Adobe

​Gargi Shah - Personal Capacity

​Suneeth Maraboina - Apple

​Sweta Mulji - SalesPlay X

​Vaishnavi Varma - khaa-lo

​Venkat Murali Krishna Nerusu - BridgeBio

​Venkata Harikishan Koppuravuri - Manulife

​Venkata Sai Kishore Modalavalasa - Straiker

​Yogiraj Awati - Instacart

The Stakes: More than just a title, the Vibe Awards are a milestone for founders who had the courage to pitch live. The winner of each category will receive 1,000 VOTES from Venture Miner on Artizen, drastically increasing their momentum for the Season 6 competition.