{"id":992041,"date":"2026-02-14T09:37:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T04:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=992041"},"modified":"2026-02-14T09:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T04:24:08","slug":"karnatakas-tech-ecosystem-raised-3-8-billion-funding-in-2025-says-kharge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/14\/karnatakas-tech-ecosystem-raised-3-8-billion-funding-in-2025-says-kharge\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka&#8217;s tech ecosystem raised $3.8 billion funding in 2025, says Kharge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karnataka&#8217;s tech ecosystem raised $3.8 billion in 2025, driven by strong early-stage funding momentum, IT\/BT minister Priyank Kharge said in a social media post. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With early-stage deals leading funding activity and fintech emerging as a key contributor, the state continues to strengthen its position as a national hub for innovation and ecosystem-led growth,&#8221; Kharge said on X. <\/p>\n<p>The state&#8217;s startup ecosystem was ranked the third best performer in 2026 after Gujarat and Goa, according to the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karnataka&#8217;s tech ecosystem raised $3.8 billion in 2025, driven by strong early-stage funding momentum, IT\/BT minister Priyank Kharge said in a social media post. &#8220;With early-stage deals leading funding activity and fintech emerging as a key contributor, the state continues to strengthen its position as a national hub for innovation and ecosystem-led growth,&#8221; Kharge said on X. The state&#8217;s startup ecosystem was ranked the third best performer in 2026 after Gujarat and Goa, according to the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT).<\/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-992041","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\/992041","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=992041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}