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India's Startup Minister Urges Shift to Deep-Tech Innovation

4/4/2025

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Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal challenged India's startup landscape at the Startup Mahakumbh, urging entrepreneurs to pivot from convenience-driven ventures like food delivery to groundbreaking deep-tech innovations. With only 1,000 deep-tech startups in India versus China's strides in AI and electric vehicles, he emphasized the urgent need for heightened domestic investment to ignite transformative technological progress.

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Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal challenged India's startup landscape at the Startup Mahakumbh, urging entrepreneurs to pivot from convenience-driven ventures like food delivery to groundbreaking deep-tech innovations. With only 1,000 deep-tech startups in India versus China's strides in AI and electric vehicles, he emphasized the urgent need for heightened domestic investment to ignite transformative technological progress.