{"id":937358,"date":"2025-06-09T08:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T03:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=937358"},"modified":"2025-06-09T09:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T03:51:11","slug":"mohandas-pai-flags-lack-of-domestic-capital-for-indian-startups-calls-for-policy-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/09\/mohandas-pai-flags-lack-of-domestic-capital-for-indian-startups-calls-for-policy-overhaul\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohandas Pai flags lack of domestic capital for Indian startups, calls for policy overhaul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian startups are being held back by a lack of adequate domestic investment due to restrictive regulations of the government, according to industry veteran and Aarin Capital chairman Mohandas Pai, who called for policy reforms and R&amp;D investments to strengthen the ecosystem. <\/p>\n<p>Despite India being the world&#8217;s third-largest startup hub, Pai cautioned that the country risks falling behind in global innovation unless these challenges are addressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian startups are being held back by a lack of adequate domestic investment due to restrictive regulations of the government, according to industry veteran and Aarin Capital chairman Mohandas Pai, who called for policy reforms and R&amp;D investments to strengthen the ecosystem. Despite India being the world&#8217;s third-largest startup hub, Pai cautioned that the country risks falling behind in global innovation unless these challenges are addressed.<\/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-937358","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\/937358","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=937358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}