{"id":1019077,"date":"2026-07-06T08:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T02:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019077"},"modified":"2026-07-06T08:36:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T03:06:44","slug":"bengaluru-emerges-as-indias-u30-capital-as-startup-ecosystem-turns-deeptech-and-hardware-focused-priyank-kharge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/06\/bengaluru-emerges-as-indias-u30-capital-as-startup-ecosystem-turns-deeptech-and-hardware-focused-priyank-kharge\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengaluru emerges as India&#8217;s U30 capital as startup ecosystem turns DeepTech and hardware-focused: Priyank Kharge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru is now the leading hub for India&#8217;s youngest founders, with 21 entrepreneurs from the city featuring on the Avendus Wealth &#8211; Hurun India U30 List 2026, up from just 7 last year, Priyank Kharge, Minister of Home, e-Governance, Electronics, IT &amp; BT, Government of Karnataka, said. <\/p>\n<p>Kharge cited the report to highlight a broader shift in India&#8217;s innovation landscape. According to the Avendus Wealth &#8211; Hurun India U30 List 2026, which recognises 102 exceptional leaders aged 30 and under, 18 of the companies on the list are headquartered in Bengaluru &#8212; the highest for any city in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru is now the leading hub for India&#8217;s youngest founders, with 21 entrepreneurs from the city featuring on the Avendus Wealth &#8211; Hurun India U30 List 2026, up from just 7 last year, Priyank Kharge, Minister of Home, e-Governance, Electronics, IT &amp; BT, Government of Karnataka, said. Kharge cited the report to highlight a broader shift in India&#8217;s innovation landscape. According to the Avendus Wealth &#8211; Hurun India U30 List 2026, which recognises 102 exceptional leaders aged 30 and under, 18 of the companies on the list are headquartered in Bengaluru &#8212; the highest for any city in the country.<\/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-1019077","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\/1019077","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=1019077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019100,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019077\/revisions\/1019100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}