{"id":1003200,"date":"2026-04-16T10:40:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003200"},"modified":"2026-04-16T10:58:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:28:42","slug":"one-of-a-kind-startup-awards-2026-finally-something-for-early-stage-founders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/16\/one-of-a-kind-startup-awards-2026-finally-something-for-early-stage-founders\/","title":{"rendered":"One Of A Kind Startup Awards 2026: Finally, something for early-stage founders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since everyone in the startup ecosystem loves numbers, here are some to consider: <\/p>\n<p>According to the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, India added over 44,000 startups in 2025 alone, the highest single-year jump since the Startup India initiative launched a decade ago. <\/p>\n<p>Yet, of the $13 billion Indian startups raised last year, early-stage companies (seed through Series A) captured just $3.2 billion across 831 deals, according to data platform TheKredible. Even more stark is the revelation from the NASSCOM-Zinnov India Tech Start-up Report 2025 that 85% of Indian tech startups never make it to Series A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since everyone in the startup ecosystem loves numbers, here are some to consider: According to the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, India added over 44,000 startups in 2025 alone, the highest single-year jump since the Startup India initiative launched a decade ago. Yet, of the $13 billion Indian startups raised last year, early-stage companies (seed through Series A) captured just $3.2 billion across 831 deals, according to data platform TheKredible. Even more stark is the revelation from the NASSCOM-Zinnov India Tech Start-up Report 2025 that 85% of Indian tech startups never make it to Series A.<\/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-1003200","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\/1003200","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=1003200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}