Mr. Yogesh Anyapanawar, Founder & CEO of Datamotive, has been recognized as the Indian Achievers’ Award – Entrepreneur of the Year 2025, celebrating a remarkable career defined by technical mastery, strategic vision, and transformative impact in enterprise IT.

With nearly two decades of experience across software engineering, cloud computing, virtualization, analytics, and AI/ML, he built his reputation working with leading IT firms before founding Datamotive. Driven by a conviction that enterprise cloud resilience and portability require more innovative, more scalable solutions, he transformed his industry insight into action.

In 2020, he launched Datamotive to enable enterprises to migrate and manage workloads seamlessly across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Leveraging his deep domain expertise, he architected a workload portability platform that addresses critical challenges in disaster recovery, vendor lock-in, and infrastructure complexity.

Under his leadership, Datamotive has grown rapidly, onboarding marquee enterprise clients across various industries, delivering quantifiable improvements in uptime and cost efficiency, and gaining recognition for its innovative solutions. His product roadmap incorporates emerging capabilities in AI-driven automation and analytics, positioning the platform at the forefront of intelligent resilience.

He is recognized for his hands-on leadership style, which involves mentoring product teams, collaborating closely with customers, and forging partnerships that enhance the company’s technical ecosystem. His ability to connect product strategy with real-world enterprise needs has driven consistent customer satisfaction and repeat growth.

Beyond Datamotive’s commercial success, he is committed to upskilling India’s tech workforce. He contributes to cloud computing forums and industry panels, helping shape the conversation on enterprise resilience and innovation.

Receiving the Indian Achievers’ Award is recognition of his vision and perseverance: envisioning a future where enterprises can confidently run critical workloads across any cloud. This recognition affirms not just the success of Datamotive but also his ongoing contribution to India’s technology leadership on a global scale.

Through this recognition, he hopes to inspire more tech entrepreneurs to build solutions that not only deliver business impact but also uplift professional talent and strengthen India’s enterprise IT maturity.