{"id":963591,"date":"2025-09-23T10:32:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T05:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=963591"},"modified":"2025-09-23T11:44:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T06:14:38","slug":"uks-natwest-to-invest-in-indian-startups-to-boost-talent-footprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/23\/uks-natwest-to-invest-in-indian-startups-to-boost-talent-footprint\/","title":{"rendered":"UK\u2019s NatWest to invest in Indian startups to boost talent footprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NatWest Group is scouting for early-stage startups in India to invest in, as the UK-based bank is intensifying its focus on technology innovation and expanding its engineering talent footprint here as part of its growth strategy, a senior executive said. <\/p>\n<p>The bank\u2019s focus areas for startup investment include payment solutions, agentic artificial intelligence and control frameworks, as it seeks to form tech partnerships and build digital capabilities. It is planning investments from $250,000 up to $2 million per deal, group chief information officer Scott Marcar said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NatWest Group is scouting for early-stage startups in India to invest in, as the UK-based bank is intensifying its focus on technology innovation and expanding its engineering talent footprint here as part of its growth strategy, a senior executive said. The bank\u2019s focus areas for startup investment include payment solutions, agentic artificial intelligence and control frameworks, as it seeks to form tech partnerships and build digital capabilities. It is planning investments from $250,000 up to $2 million per deal, group chief information officer Scott Marcar said.<\/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-963591","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\/963591","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=963591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}