{"id":1005659,"date":"2026-04-29T09:37:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T04:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005659"},"modified":"2026-04-29T09:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T04:12:12","slug":"bengaluru-leads-delhi-mumbai-in-startup-deals-investments-cm-siddaramaiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/29\/bengaluru-leads-delhi-mumbai-in-startup-deals-investments-cm-siddaramaiah\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengaluru leads Delhi, Mumbai in startup deals, investments: CM Siddaramaiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru continues to lead India\u2019s startup ecosystem with 89 deals worth $823 million signed in the January-March quarter of 2026, well ahead of Delhi and Mumbai, Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah said on Tuesday in a post on X. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This leadership is no accident. It reflects Karnataka\u2019s consistent focus on building a deep, enabling ecosystem for innovation, capital, and talent. From deep tech to daily tech, Bengaluru remains at the heart of India\u2019s growth story,\u2019\u2019 Siddaramaiah added. <\/p>\n<p>Karnataka IT\/BT Minister Priyank Kharge added that Bengaluru\u2019s leadership in India\u2019s startup ecosystem reflected the state\u2019s sustained approach to nurturing innovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru continues to lead India\u2019s startup ecosystem with 89 deals worth $823 million signed in the January-March quarter of 2026, well ahead of Delhi and Mumbai, Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah said on Tuesday in a post on X. &#8220;This leadership is no accident. It reflects Karnataka\u2019s consistent focus on building a deep, enabling ecosystem for innovation, capital, and talent. From deep tech to daily tech, Bengaluru remains at the heart of India\u2019s growth story,\u2019\u2019 Siddaramaiah added. Karnataka IT\/BT Minister Priyank Kharge added that Bengaluru\u2019s leadership in India\u2019s startup ecosystem reflected the state\u2019s sustained approach to nurturing innovation.<\/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-1005659","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\/1005659","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=1005659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}