The VCCircle Awards are India’s most coveted and pre-eminent honours for disruptive and fast-growth businesses in the private equity and venture capital ecosystem. Saluting the spirit of achievement and recognizing the contribution to brand India, the awards are a celebration of excellence as the organizations and visionaries are felicitated by their peers and the members of the grand jury. Now in its milestone 15th edition, the award ceremony will be held on February 24th 2026, along with VCCircle’s flagship India Limited Partners Summit 2026.
India Inc.’s most revered names will attend the ceremony including CEOs, prominent international and domestic private equity fund managers, limited partners and top executives of investment banks, accounting firms and law firms. The ceremony would recognize leading portfolio companies, fund managers, advisory firms and marquee deals that were a testimony of 2025 being an excellent year for alternative investments.
The nominees across categories will be screened and shortlisted by VCCEdge, India’s premier research platform providing comprehensive private and public company financial data, private equity, venture capital, M&A, ECM and debt transactions data, key developments of companies and advanced search tools and features for the Indian investment ecosystem. Top contenders in each category will be further scrutinized for performance and compared against industry-specific benchmarks and peer group performance.
Dr. Subhransu Sekhar Acharya is the Chairman- cum- Managing Director (CMD), The National Small Industries Corporation Ltd., A Public Sector Organization of Government of India. Prior to his present assignment, Dr. Acharya was the Chief General Manager, Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI), New Delhi.
Dr. Acharya is a Ph.D. in Management, Post Graduate in Science (M.Sc.), a Post Graduate in Business Administration (MBA) and a Certified Associate of Indian Institute of Banking & Finance (CAIIB). He has experience of over 3 decades in various facets of MSME Financing and Development including Credit, SME Rating, Risk Management, Bills Financing, New Product Development, Business Planning, Entrepreneurship Development, Innovation financing, Micro-Finance, Start-Up mentoring etc.
Dr. Acharya was a recipient of Prestigious Chevening Fellowship wherein, he underwent a course in Environment Management & Sustainable Development. The program was organized by University of Bradford and University of Manchester, UK on behalf of British Foreign Office who administer the Fellowship through British Council. During his stint there, he had exposure to the working of SMEs in UK where he worked on establishing the commercial benefits of adopting environment friendly technology by comparing the same for SMEs of India and UK. Besides, he has also attended “SME Cluster Development Program” at the prestigious International Training Centre of ILO at Turin, Italy.
Shri Acharya was invited by World Bank to discuss India’s SME Development Financing Story at Harare, Zimbabwe. He is regularly invited by various B’Schools / Universities / IITs etc. for delivering talks and taking sessions on various facets on a whole range of topics ranging from “Corporate Social Responsibility”, “Entrepreneurship”, “MSME Financing”, “Financial Inclusion”, “Motivational aspects” etc. Shri Acharya has several publications / articles published in various journals to his credit. He has co-authored to book on Managing Innovation & Incubation titled “Seed to Sapling” : The Incubator Way”.
Dr. Acharya is an adjunct Professor in Innovation & Entrepreneurship Area at ‘Birla Global University,’ Bhubaneswar.
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