{"id":1042740,"date":"2026-10-13T08:22:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T02:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1042740"},"modified":"2026-10-13T08:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T03:00:31","slug":"govt-selects-19-fund-managers-under-rdi-committing-rs-7131-crore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/13\/govt-selects-19-fund-managers-under-rdi-committing-rs-7131-crore\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt selects 19 fund managers under RDI, committing Rs 7,131 crore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government has selected 19 fund managers for its Rs 1 lakh crore Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) scheme, committing Rs 7,131 crore to the first cohort as it looks to channel long-term capital into deeptech startups and private sector research and development. <\/p>\n<p>Sources told ET that more than 160 venture capital firms had applied to access the government-backed capital pool. Out of the 19 selected 14 are Alternative Investment Fund (AIFs) and five are Focused Research Organisations (FROs).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has selected 19 fund managers for its Rs 1 lakh crore Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) scheme, committing Rs 7,131 crore to the first cohort as it looks to channel long-term capital into deeptech startups and private sector research and development. Sources told ET that more than 160 venture capital firms had applied to access the government-backed capital pool. Out of the 19 selected 14 are Alternative Investment Fund (AIFs) and five are Focused Research Organisations (FROs).<\/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-1042740","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\/1042740","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=1042740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042761,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042740\/revisions\/1042761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}