{"id":963719,"date":"2025-09-23T11:24:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T05:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=963719"},"modified":"2025-09-23T12:49:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T07:19:00","slug":"from-shivpuri-to-indias-first-crypto-unicorn-the-coindcx-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/23\/from-shivpuri-to-indias-first-crypto-unicorn-the-coindcx-story\/","title":{"rendered":"From Shivpuri to India\u2019s first crypto unicorn: The CoinDCX story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sumit Gupta, co-founder of crypto unicorn CoinDCX, grew up in a small village in Madhya Pradesh, near Shivpuri. It was during his IIT Bombay days that Gupta got a small taste of entrepreneurship \u201cBack in 2010 to 2014, there were a lot of startups that were emerging from IIT Bombay. After college hours, I used to go and see how they worked and also reached out to many to work with them \u2014 not for the money but to understand what it takes to start a startup and scale it,\u201d Gupta says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sumit Gupta, co-founder of crypto unicorn CoinDCX, grew up in a small village in Madhya Pradesh, near Shivpuri. It was during his IIT Bombay days that Gupta got a small taste of entrepreneurship \u201cBack in 2010 to 2014, there were a lot of startups that were emerging from IIT Bombay. After college hours, I used to go and see how they worked and also reached out to many to work with them \u2014 not for the money but to understand what it takes to start a startup and scale it,\u201d Gupta says.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963719","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=963719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}