{"id":1017354,"date":"2026-06-29T07:50:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T02:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1017354"},"modified":"2026-06-29T07:55:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T02:25:37","slug":"where-are-the-unicorns-of-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/29\/where-are-the-unicorns-of-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Where are the unicorns of 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2021, a year after Covid upended the world, 39 Indian startups became unicorns, valued at $1 billion or more. <\/p>\n<p>These included Cred, Meesho, Groww, Cult.fit and many others that have become household names. <\/p>\n<p>Five years ago, a zero-interest-rate policy and a flood of venture capital changed India\u2019s startup landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2021, a year after Covid upended the world, 39 Indian startups became unicorns, valued at $1 billion or more. These included Cred, Meesho, Groww, Cult.fit and many others that have become household names. Five years ago, a zero-interest-rate policy and a flood of venture capital changed India\u2019s startup landscape.<\/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-1017354","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\/1017354","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=1017354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017361,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017354\/revisions\/1017361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}