Do you want to be known as one of the Future IT Companies globally..? Here’s your chance to participate in the NASSCOM EMERGE 50 Awards for 2011.

Do your products/services have the potential to redefine benchmarks of excellence for the industry? Have you witnessed accelerated growth patterns over the last 2-3 years consistently using innovative business models? Have you successfully ventured and leveraged emerging/domestic markets for faster financial growth? Here’s your chance to ride the wave to fame, as INNOVATION, GROWTH and START-UPS are the 3 categories for the 3^rd annual NASSCOM EMERGE 50 Awards.

In an endeavor to showcase the brightest stars in the emerging and start-up community and support their development, we invite fast-growing Indian IT companies to send nominations for recognizing their ground-breaking products/services in the IT sector. The NASSCOM EMERGE 50 awards for 2011 aims to highlight the next set of 50 emerging companies with the key objective of building the future companies for the country. NASSCOM EMERGE 50 aims to showcase the most promising product companies in the emerging and start-up community that are shaping the future of India. On request of participating companies, we are extending the last date to September 10th, 2011. You can apply here.

This year the “Top 50 Emerging Companies” and “League of Ten” will be recognized at the annual NASSCOM Product Conclave in Bangalore.

Recognition for winners at an awards ceremony at the NASSCOM Product Conclave, November 9-10th 2011, Bangalore attended by 1200+ delegates, 600+ companies from across the world

• Top 10 companies will be provided FREE stalls space in the Premium Exhibit area at the Product Conclave
• Top 10 companies will also get 2 FREE passes to the Product Conclave
• Applying for EMERGE 50, 2011 is FREE for all companies
• Register your Software Product FREE in the Marketplace – ProductsMade.in

Here’s how the EMERGE 50 2010 winners benefited from the visibility, mentorship, networking and growth opportunities provided through this platform.

• “Top 50 Emerging Companies” and “League of Ten” duly recognized at the EMERGEOUT Conclave in Delhi, 2011
• Company Listing in Dataquest – the leading IT magazine
• Editorial coverage in the NASSCOM EMERGE Newsletter and NASSCOM Newsline
• NASSCOM partner companies provided consulting support under the Mentorship Program  to most finalists
• Showcase of EMERGE Top 50 product companies to the CIO community in the annual Product Conclave
• 30 entrepreneurs from the EMERGE community featured on YourStory.in
• Showcase of EMERGE 50 companies at other NASSCOM events
• Partner search facilitated through the Global Trade Development initiatives

Read some of the testimonials from some of the members who got featured in the EMERGE 50 editions. Many more initiatives will be rolled out in the next few weeks. If you have any queries please feel free to reach out to us at emerge@nasscom.in. Like last year, we have partnered with Zinnov Consulting as a Process Partner for this initiative.

Due to popular demand, we have extended the nomination timeline for the prestigious NASSCOM EMERGE 50 Awards from 25th August to Saturday 10th September, 2011.