{"id":1042396,"date":"2026-10-12T08:50:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T03:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1042396"},"modified":"2026-10-12T08:54:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T03:24:24","slug":"etsa-2026-over-a-decade-on-indias-startup-story-is-only-getting-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/12\/etsa-2026-over-a-decade-on-indias-startup-story-is-only-getting-started\/","title":{"rendered":"ETSA 2026: Over a decade on, India&#8217;s startup story is only getting started"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than a decade after India\u2019s startup ecosystem took its first steps, its entrepreneurial journey is entering a new phase, with a growing crop of founders tackling complex problems in deeptech and hardtech, and homegrown companies tapping the public markets as well as pursuing global ambitions. <\/p>\n<p>The 12th edition of The Economic Times Startup Awards (ETSA) captured this transition, reflecting an ecosystem that has moved beyond the race for scale to pursue technological depth, durable businesses and international markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a decade after India\u2019s startup ecosystem took its first steps, its entrepreneurial journey is entering a new phase, with a growing crop of founders tackling complex problems in deeptech and hardtech, and homegrown companies tapping the public markets as well as pursuing global ambitions. The 12th edition of The Economic Times Startup Awards (ETSA) captured this transition, reflecting an ecosystem that has moved beyond the race for scale to pursue technological depth, durable businesses and international markets.<\/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-1042396","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\/1042396","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=1042396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042420,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042396\/revisions\/1042420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}