{"id":1003038,"date":"2026-04-15T11:17:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T05:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003038"},"modified":"2026-04-15T11:38:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T06:08:37","slug":"india-has-strong-pipeline-of-ideas-keen-to-back-local-founders-y-combinators-ankit-gupta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/15\/india-has-strong-pipeline-of-ideas-keen-to-back-local-founders-y-combinators-ankit-gupta\/","title":{"rendered":"India has strong pipeline of ideas, keen to back local founders: Y Combinator\u2019s Ankit Gupta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an exclusive interview ahead of Y Combinator\u2019s Startup School India 2026 event, Ankit Gupta, the accelerator\u2019s general partner, said the firm remains keen on backing Indian founders, adding that the country has an abundance of great startup ideas because of its &#8220;raw technical talent&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve always been excited about funding Indian founders. One of my best companies from the last batch is two guys from India who moved to San Francisco. What we\u2019re seeing now is that a lot of Indians are choosing to start global businesses with a hybrid presence across India and the US,\u201d Gupta said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an exclusive interview ahead of Y Combinator\u2019s Startup School India 2026 event, Ankit Gupta, the accelerator\u2019s general partner, said the firm remains keen on backing Indian founders, adding that the country has an abundance of great startup ideas because of its &#8220;raw technical talent&#8221;. \u201cWe\u2019ve always been excited about funding Indian founders. One of my best companies from the last batch is two guys from India who moved to San Francisco. What we\u2019re seeing now is that a lot of Indians are choosing to start global businesses with a hybrid presence across India and the US,\u201d Gupta said.<\/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-1003038","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\/1003038","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=1003038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}