{"id":1005578,"date":"2026-04-29T09:05:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T03:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005578"},"modified":"2026-04-29T09:12:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T03:42:04","slug":"deep-tech-to-drive-indias-unicorn-2-0-wave-infosys-co-founder-kris-gopalakrishnan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/29\/deep-tech-to-drive-indias-unicorn-2-0-wave-infosys-co-founder-kris-gopalakrishnan\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep tech to drive India&#8217;s Unicorn 2.0 wave: Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moving beyond consumer internet and fintech, the next wave of billion-dollar Indian startups must be built on deep technology and advanced manufacturing to secure the country&#8217;s strategic autonomy, Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan said on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the CII Unicorn Summit 2026, Gopalakrishnan, Chairman, CII Centre of Excellence for Innovation, Entrepreneurship &amp; Startups and Chairman, Axilor Ventures, defined this next phase as &#8220;Unicorn 2.0&#8221;, urging founders to focus on proprietary technology and longevity rather than just chasing high valuations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moving beyond consumer internet and fintech, the next wave of billion-dollar Indian startups must be built on deep technology and advanced manufacturing to secure the country&#8217;s strategic autonomy, Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan said on Tuesday. Speaking at the CII Unicorn Summit 2026, Gopalakrishnan, Chairman, CII Centre of Excellence for Innovation, Entrepreneurship &amp; Startups and Chairman, Axilor Ventures, defined this next phase as &#8220;Unicorn 2.0&#8221;, urging founders to focus on proprietary technology and longevity rather than just chasing high valuations.<\/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-1005578","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\/1005578","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=1005578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005596,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005578\/revisions\/1005596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}