{"id":990254,"date":"2026-02-06T09:39:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T04:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=990254"},"modified":"2026-02-06T09:42:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T04:12:45","slug":"deeptech-firms-get-separate-startup-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/06\/deeptech-firms-get-separate-startup-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Deeptech firms get separate startup status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government has expanded the scope of the Startup India programme by formally recognising deep technology companies as a distinct category, while also easing eligibility norms for the broader startup ecosystem by raising the turnover threshold. <\/p>\n<p>In a gazette notification, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) said the turnover limit for being recognised as a startup has been increased to Rs 200 crore from the earlier Rs 100 crore, with the age cap remaining unchanged at 10 years from the date of incorporation. In a significant policy shift,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has expanded the scope of the Startup India programme by formally recognising deep technology companies as a distinct category, while also easing eligibility norms for the broader startup ecosystem by raising the turnover threshold. In a gazette notification, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) said the turnover limit for being recognised as a startup has been increased to Rs 200 crore from the earlier Rs 100 crore, with the age cap remaining unchanged at 10 years from the date of incorporation. In a significant policy shift,<\/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-990254","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\/990254","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=990254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}