India's New-Age Leaders Get the Recognition Framework They Deserve: Coherent Market Insights Named Research Partner for ET Now Bharat Growth Summit & Awards 2026 at Taj Palace, New Delhi

New Delhi, June 26, 2026 — There is a particular challenge in recognising India's new-age business leaders well. The ecosystem is vast, the sectors are diverse, and the leaders building quietly in Tier 2 markets are often as consequential as those with the loudest media presence. A recognition platform that cannot account for this complexity risks celebrating visibility over value — and that is a gap the ET Now Bharat Growth Summit & Awards 2026 has set out to close.

Held today at Taj Palace, New Delhi, the ET Now Bharat Growth Summit & Awards 2026 — organised by ET Edge under the theme "Bharat Rising — Scale, Sustainability & Supremacy" brings together India's most impactful founders, CXOs, investors, and ecosystem enablers on a single platform. At the heart of its recognition program is a rigorous, evidence-based research process designed and executed by Coherent Market Insights (CMI), named Official Research Partner for this edition.

From 500 to 100: The Research Journey

CMI's evaluation mandate was to identify India's Top 500 New Age Business Leaders from a broad national candidate universe — and from that pool, through deeper structured assessment, select the Top 100 whose leadership credibility, business impact, and innovation contribution place them at the forefront of Bharat's growth story.

The process began with structured eligibility screening across leadership role, India presence, business scale, growth trajectory, innovation orientation, public visibility, and compliance standing. Leaders who cleared this threshold were profiled through comprehensive primary and secondary research drawing on company filings, media coverage, investor signals, customer traction data, and direct primary interviews with founders, industry experts, and stakeholders.

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