{"id":963317,"date":"2025-09-22T08:19:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T02:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=963317"},"modified":"2025-09-22T08:25:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T02:55:57","slug":"hiring-strategy-of-indian-ai-startups-in-us-goes-for-toss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/22\/hiring-strategy-of-indian-ai-startups-in-us-goes-for-toss\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiring strategy of Indian AI startups in US goes for toss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian startups in the AI space are evaluating the Trump administration\u2019s proposed $100,000 H-1B fee. While some are reconsidering their hiring plans, others see minimal impact. Sentient AI, a decentralised AI startup with a research lab in the US, will not be sponsoring any H-1B visas, said cofounder Himanshu Tyagi. <\/p>\n<p>Several Indian founders have relocated to the US over the past year to be closer to the AI hub in San Francisco to tap talent, stay close to customers and spot trends early. The sector has also seen increased interest from the investors. Generative AI startups in India raised $525 million in 2024, a fourfold jump from $129 million in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian startups in the AI space are evaluating the Trump administration\u2019s proposed $100,000 H-1B fee. While some are reconsidering their hiring plans, others see minimal impact. Sentient AI, a decentralised AI startup with a research lab in the US, will not be sponsoring any H-1B visas, said cofounder Himanshu Tyagi. Several Indian founders have relocated to the US over the past year to be closer to the AI hub in San Francisco to tap talent, stay close to customers and spot trends early. The sector has also seen increased interest from the investors. Generative AI startups in India raised $525 [&hellip;]<\/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-963317","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\/963317","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=963317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}