{"id":942940,"date":"2025-07-02T07:09:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T01:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=942940"},"modified":"2025-07-02T07:17:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T01:47:50","slug":"india-mints-only-five-unicorns-so-far-investors-say-2021-style-boom-unlikely-to-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/02\/india-mints-only-five-unicorns-so-far-investors-say-2021-style-boom-unlikely-to-return\/","title":{"rendered":"India mints only five unicorns so far; investors say 2021-style boom unlikely to return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the half-year mark, India has minted just five new unicorns, a pace slower than expected despite the recent thaw in the \u201cfunding winter\u201d that enveloped the startup ecosystem after Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>The year started with a boom, with Netradyne crossing the $1 billion valuation mark just days into the new year. However, this momentum has tapered off, with only a handful more startups achieving the unicorn status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the half-year mark, India has minted just five new unicorns, a pace slower than expected despite the recent thaw in the \u201cfunding winter\u201d that enveloped the startup ecosystem after Covid-19. The year started with a boom, with Netradyne crossing the $1 billion valuation mark just days into the new year. However, this momentum has tapered off, with only a handful more startups achieving the unicorn status.<\/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-942940","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\/942940","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=942940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}