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  • ValueLabs Honored with Eight Gold Globee Awards for AI Innovation in 2025

    ValueLabs

    Hyderabad: Global technology company ValueLabs has emerged as a frontrunner in Agentic AI Services, winning nine prestigious honors – including eight Gold – at the 2025 Globee Awards for Artificial Intelligence.

    The company’s groundbreaking AiDE platform and its AI-first enterprise strategy have positioned it as a true Category of One in the global AI consulting space.

    ValueLabs was awarded Gold across multiple categories such as Best AI Platform, AI Operations, Customer Insights, Personalization, Automated Testing, and Threat Detection, and received a Bronze for AI-based Knowledge Management.

    A Transformational Journey Powered by AiDE

    Launched as a bold reinvention, AiDE (Artificial Intelligence Development Engine) serves as the Enterprise Operating System powering every business function at ValueLabs.

    From ideation to delivery, AiDE enhances team productivity, improves software quality, and accelerates innovation through intelligent automation and democratized expertise.

    “We didn’t just adopt AI—we redesigned our entire business model around it,” said Arjun Rao, Founder and Chairman of ValueLabs. “Agentic AI is not a trend for us. It’s a continuation of our 28-year mission to deliver transformative outcomes with precision and purpose.”

    ValueLabs: Globee Award Wins 2025

    Gold Awards

    • Artificial Intelligence Company of the Year: ValueLabs
    • Best AI Platform: AiDE
    • Best Achievement in AI Operations: AiDE Operations
    • Best AI-driven Personalization: AiDE UX
    • Best AI Automated Testing: AiDE QE
    • AI-Powered Customer Insights: AiDE Conversational Insights
    • AI-Driven Threat Detection: AiDE Shield
    • Innovative AI for Customer Service: AiDE Chat

    Bronze Award

    • AI-based Knowledge Management: AiDE Academy

    From Concept to Scale: Practicing What They Preach

    With over 7,000 employees worldwide, the company has gone beyond AI pilot programs, achieving full production deployment of AiDE across its global operations.

    Its Vertical AI solutions are enabling enterprises to transform industry-specific workflows—from BFSI and healthcare to retail and telecom—by embedding autonomous intelligence.

    “AiDE powers everything—from how we build strategies to how we deliver results,” said Sam Alva, CEO, ValueLabs. “Our Globee wins validate our leadership in Agentic AI and show that we’ve gone from the art of the possible to the science of scaled impact.”

    As industries move toward AI-first models, ValueLabs offers a compelling new paradigm: Service-as-Software—turning once-manual consulting tasks into automated, scalable, and measurable outcomes using AI.

    These nine Globee Awards, following earlier recognition from Stevie and World HRD Awards, reinforce ValueLabs’ global reputation as a technology innovator blending deep consulting expertise with cutting-edge AI execution.

    Author

    • Salil Urunkar

      Salil Urunkar is a senior journalist and the editorial mind behind Sahyadri Startups. With years of experience covering Pune’s entrepreneurial rise, he’s passionate about telling the real stories of founders, disruptors, and game-changers.

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