{"id":1042402,"date":"2026-10-12T08:54:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T03:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1042402"},"modified":"2026-10-12T08:56:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T03:26:05","slug":"et-startup-awards-2026-govt-backing-and-patient-capital-propel-indias-leap-into-ai-and-chips-satyan-gajwani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/12\/et-startup-awards-2026-govt-backing-and-patient-capital-propel-indias-leap-into-ai-and-chips-satyan-gajwani\/","title":{"rendered":"ET Startup Awards 2026 | Govt backing and patient capital propel India&#8217;s leap into AI and chips: Satyan Gajwani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s startup ecosystem is maturing and entering a new era of deep technology, said Satyan Gajwani, chairman of Times Internet, in his address at the ET Startup Awards 2026, citing the launch of launch vehicle Vikram-1 as a milestone in the country\u2019s technological ambitions. <\/p>\n<p>On July 18, the rocket, built by Hyderabad-based startup, Skyroot Aerospace, lifted off from Sriharikota and placed customer satellites in orbit 450 kilometres above earth. \u201cWith that launch, India became only the third nation after the US and China with a private company able to reach space,\u201d Gajwani said. ETSA 2026 jury member Mukesh Bansal was Skyroot&#8217;s first investor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s startup ecosystem is maturing and entering a new era of deep technology, said Satyan Gajwani, chairman of Times Internet, in his address at the ET Startup Awards 2026, citing the launch of launch vehicle Vikram-1 as a milestone in the country\u2019s technological ambitions. On July 18, the rocket, built by Hyderabad-based startup, Skyroot Aerospace, lifted off from Sriharikota and placed customer satellites in orbit 450 kilometres above earth. \u201cWith that launch, India became only the third nation after the US and China with a private company able to reach space,\u201d Gajwani said. ETSA 2026 jury member Mukesh Bansal was [&hellip;]<\/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-1042402","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\/1042402","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=1042402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042427,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042402\/revisions\/1042427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}