{"id":1002620,"date":"2026-04-13T07:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T02:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1002620"},"modified":"2026-04-13T08:05:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T02:35:01","slug":"large-ai-firms-hoovering-maximum-funding-not-enough-for-smaller-startups-y-combinators-ankit-gupta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/13\/large-ai-firms-hoovering-maximum-funding-not-enough-for-smaller-startups-y-combinators-ankit-gupta\/","title":{"rendered":"Large AI firms hoovering maximum funding, not enough for smaller startups: Y Combinator\u2019s Ankit Gupta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere\u2019s too much capital going to a small number of companies at the very top, and not nearly enough going to seed stage firms where there\u2019s an insane number of possibilities,\u201d famed Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator\u2019s general partner Ankit Gupta told ET in an exclusive interview. His remarks come ahead of the accelerator\u2019s Startup School event in Bengaluru on April 18 \u2014 the first in India \u2014 at a time when US frontier labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic are raising hundreds of billions to build new technologies and products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere\u2019s too much capital going to a small number of companies at the very top, and not nearly enough going to seed stage firms where there\u2019s an insane number of possibilities,\u201d famed Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator\u2019s general partner Ankit Gupta told ET in an exclusive interview. His remarks come ahead of the accelerator\u2019s Startup School event in Bengaluru on April 18 \u2014 the first in India \u2014 at a time when US frontier labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic are raising hundreds of billions to build new technologies and products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}