{"id":1037173,"date":"2026-09-21T08:32:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T03:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1037173"},"modified":"2026-09-21T08:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T03:11:11","slug":"india-wants-to-build-chip-companies-not-just-fabs-heres-the-funding-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/21\/india-wants-to-build-chip-companies-not-just-fabs-heres-the-funding-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"India wants to build chip companies, not just fabs. Here\u2019s the funding challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Semiconductor ambitions of India depend on more than building factories and attracting large investments. For startups developing their own chips, the challenge is also finding investors willing to stay through a long and expensive journey from an idea to a product that customers will buy. <\/p>\n<p>Srini Chinamilli, co-founder and CEO of Tessolve, a Hero Electronix venture agrees with this observation. Speaking to Financial Express Online, Chinamilli said funding needs to match the long development cycles and technical risks involved in turning a chip design into a commercial product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Semiconductor ambitions of India depend on more than building factories and attracting large investments. For startups developing their own chips, the challenge is also finding investors willing to stay through a long and expensive journey from an idea to a product that customers will buy. Srini Chinamilli, co-founder and CEO of Tessolve, a Hero Electronix venture agrees with this observation. Speaking to Financial Express Online, Chinamilli said funding needs to match the long development cycles and technical risks involved in turning a chip design into a commercial product.<\/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-1037173","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\/1037173","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=1037173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037194,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037173\/revisions\/1037194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}