{"id":1021702,"date":"2026-07-17T08:46:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T03:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1021702"},"modified":"2026-07-17T08:52:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T03:22:57","slug":"semicon-2-0-centre-to-co-invest-with-vcs-in-chip-startups-equity-model-replaces-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/17\/semicon-2-0-centre-to-co-invest-with-vcs-in-chip-startups-equity-model-replaces-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Semicon 2.0: Centre to co-invest with VCs in chip startups, equity model replaces grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government is set to become a venture-style investor in semiconductor startups under India Semiconductor Mission (ISM) 2.0, matching investments made by private venture capital (VC) firms in a bid to bridge one of the biggest funding gaps in the country\u2019s chip design ecosystem. <\/p>\n<p>The framework, which marks a significant departure from the grant-based approach adopted under the first phase of the semiconductor mission, is expected to be notified in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government is set to become a venture-style investor in semiconductor startups under India Semiconductor Mission (ISM) 2.0, matching investments made by private venture capital (VC) firms in a bid to bridge one of the biggest funding gaps in the country\u2019s chip design ecosystem. The framework, which marks a significant departure from the grant-based approach adopted under the first phase of the semiconductor mission, is expected to be notified in the next few weeks.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021702","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=1021702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021719,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021702\/revisions\/1021719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}