{"id":1045619,"date":"2026-10-29T07:57:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T02:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1045619"},"modified":"2026-10-29T08:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T02:48:07","slug":"ixigo-co-founder-rajnish-kumar-launches-rs-1-cr-fund-for-iit-kanpur-startups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/29\/ixigo-co-founder-rajnish-kumar-launches-rs-1-cr-fund-for-iit-kanpur-startups\/","title":{"rendered":"Ixigo co-founder Rajnish Kumar launches Rs 1 cr fund for IIT Kanpur startups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: ixigo co-founder and Group co-CEO Rajnish Kumar on Wednesday launched the Made in Fire Fund, a Rs 1-crore initiative to support graduating IIT Kanpur students in their entrepreneurial journeys.<\/p>\n<p>The fund will support 10 technology-led startups from each graduating batch, with Rs 10 lakh in non-dilutive prototype funding for every selected startup, Kumar said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: ixigo co-founder and Group co-CEO Rajnish Kumar on Wednesday launched the Made in Fire Fund, a Rs 1-crore initiative to support graduating IIT Kanpur students in their entrepreneurial journeys. The fund will support 10 technology-led startups from each graduating batch, with Rs 10 lakh in non-dilutive prototype funding for every selected startup, Kumar said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1045619","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\/1045619","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045622,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045619\/revisions\/1045622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}