{"id":1008094,"date":"2026-05-16T09:46:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T04:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008094"},"modified":"2026-05-16T10:00:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T04:30:25","slug":"tdb-kicks-off-rdi-fund-disbursal-backs-startups-across-space-drones-biotech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/16\/tdb-kicks-off-rdi-fund-disbursal-backs-startups-across-space-drones-biotech\/","title":{"rendered":"TDB kicks off RDI fund disbursal, backs startups across space, drones, biotech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Technology Development Board (TDB), one of the two second-level fund managers for the \u20b91 lakh crore Research and Development Initiative (RDI) fund, has started disbursing the first tranche from its corpus. <\/p>\n<p>TDB secretary Rajesh Kumar Pathak told ET that the board expects to disburse around \u20b9500-600 crore during the current financial year. The first set of selected deeptech startups work across drones, spacetech, advanced batteries, and biotechnology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Technology Development Board (TDB), one of the two second-level fund managers for the \u20b91 lakh crore Research and Development Initiative (RDI) fund, has started disbursing the first tranche from its corpus. TDB secretary Rajesh Kumar Pathak told ET that the board expects to disburse around \u20b9500-600 crore during the current financial year. The first set of selected deeptech startups work across drones, spacetech, advanced batteries, and biotechnology.<\/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-1008094","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\/1008094","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=1008094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008124,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008094\/revisions\/1008124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}