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Nearly 44,000 startups registered with the authorities successful 2025, the highest yearly summation since Startup India was launched, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said connected Friday (January 16, 2025) astatine an lawsuit commemorating the 10th day of the Startup India scheme.
Launched connected January 16, 2016, the flagship inaugural seeks to foster innovation, beforehand entrepreneurship, and alteration investment-driven growth.
The biggest jump
“I’m adjacent much pleased to spot that the momentum of Startup India is steadily increasing,” Mr. Modi said. “Today’s startups are becoming unicorns, unicorns are launching their IPOs, and creating much and much jobs. Last twelvemonth alone, successful 2025, astir 44,000 caller startups were registered. This is the biggest leap successful immoderate azygous twelvemonth since the motorboat of Startup India.”
The Prime Minister said that the Startup India ngo has go a “revolution” successful India, with the state taking its presumption arsenic the third-largest startup ecosystem successful the world.
“Ten years ago, determination were less than 500 startups successful the country; today, that fig has grown to implicit 200,000,” Mr. Modi said. “In 2014, India had lone 4 unicorns; today, determination are astir 125 progressive unicorns successful India… These figures carnivore witnesser to however our startups are driving the ecosystem, innovation, and growth.”
Increase successful risk-taking
The Prime Minister besides talked astir however the cognition of risk-taking has changed successful the country, becoming much wide accepted and adjacent respected.
“Earlier, risk-taking was discouraged successful the country, but today, risk-taking has go mainstream,” Mr. Modi said, adding, “Those who deliberation beyond monthly wage are not lone accepted but respected. Risk-taking ideas, which radical erstwhile considered fringe, are present becoming fashionable.”
During his speech, the Prime Minister said that much than ₹25,000 crore has been invested done the Fund of Funds for startups that had been created by the government.
Deep tech successful focus
Speaking to the media aft the event, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said the absorption of the Fund of Funds 2.0, approved successful April 2025 with a corpus of ₹10,000 crore, would beryllium connected heavy tech, peculiarly successful areas witnessing a batch of innovation, specified arsenic artificial intelligence, instrumentality learning, quantum technologies, defence, and aerospace.
“These are areas wherever the state has a need, and wherever we privation to go a planetary leader,” Mr. Goyal said. “Usually, startups successful these areas instrumentality a agelong clip to scope the proof-of-concept signifier and go successful. The absorption volition beryllium to marque much hazard superior disposable for this.”
