{"id":944800,"date":"2025-07-09T08:11:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T02:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=944800"},"modified":"2025-07-09T08:44:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T03:14:21","slug":"y-combinators-india-cohort-shrinks-amid-local-capital-reshaping-deals-ai-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/09\/y-combinators-india-cohort-shrinks-amid-local-capital-reshaping-deals-ai-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Y Combinator\u2019s India cohort shrinks amid local capital reshaping deals, AI focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of Indian startups selected by Silicon Valley\u2019s famed accelerator Y Combinator (YC) has plummeted to just four in 2024 from 66 in 2021, marking a sharp decline in participation from one of its most active international markets in recent years, according to information sourced from YC\u2019s website. <\/p>\n<p>This comes at a time when Indian founders are increasingly opting to remain domiciled locally amid evolving regulatory dynamics and healthy prospects of listing on the domestic stock exchanges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of Indian startups selected by Silicon Valley\u2019s famed accelerator Y Combinator (YC) has plummeted to just four in 2024 from 66 in 2021, marking a sharp decline in participation from one of its most active international markets in recent years, according to information sourced from YC\u2019s website. This comes at a time when Indian founders are increasingly opting to remain domiciled locally amid evolving regulatory dynamics and healthy prospects of listing on the domestic stock exchanges.<\/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-944800","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\/944800","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=944800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}