{"id":1042401,"date":"2026-10-12T08:52:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T03:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1042401"},"modified":"2026-10-12T08:55:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T03:25:36","slug":"et-startup-awards-2026-tier-ii-cities-rechart-startup-geography-idfc-first-banks-vaidyanathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/12\/et-startup-awards-2026-tier-ii-cities-rechart-startup-geography-idfc-first-banks-vaidyanathan\/","title":{"rendered":"ET Startup Awards 2026 | Tier-II cities rechart startup geography: IDFC First Bank\u2019s Vaidyanathan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phenomenal companies are being created in India and the startup ecosystem is expanding beyond the familiar technology hubs, said V Vaidyanathan, chief executive and managing director of IDFC First Bank. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe range of applications we are seeing today, including satellite technology, hyperspectral imaging, AI-enabled brain mapping and advances in computing, demonstrate the ambition and technical talent driving India\u2019s startup ecosystem,\u201d Vaidyanathan said at the ET Startup Awards event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phenomenal companies are being created in India and the startup ecosystem is expanding beyond the familiar technology hubs, said V Vaidyanathan, chief executive and managing director of IDFC First Bank. \u201cThe range of applications we are seeing today, including satellite technology, hyperspectral imaging, AI-enabled brain mapping and advances in computing, demonstrate the ambition and technical talent driving India\u2019s startup ecosystem,\u201d Vaidyanathan said at the ET Startup Awards event.<\/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-1042401","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\/1042401","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=1042401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042425,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042401\/revisions\/1042425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}