Indian startup movement must be driven by Indian financing, cannot depend on foreign funding: Kant

15 Mar 2024 Evaluate

G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant has said that the Indian startup movement must be driven by Indian financing and cannot depend on foreign funding. He said the nation needs to create a fund of funds to support young deep tech startups. He said all upcoming startups have to be driven by Artificial Intelligence (AI). He added startups should focus on corporate governance for growth, otherwise, they will land up in a debacle.

Kant, who was the former NITI Aayog CEO, said ‘In the quest for great innovation and disruption, startups lose out on corporate governance. The key to India's success of becoming the number one nation of startups is its ability to do good corporate governance and to ensure that Indian insurance companies, pension funds, and others, should all invest in our startup movement’. He further said that India cannot grow on the back of foreign money coming in all the time.

He also said ‘India's startup movement must be driven by India's financing’. He said ‘We must be very clear about being the number one startup nation in the world. There is no reason that anything should hold us back because we have created a digital movement that is more powerful than anything else in the world’. He noted that women are outperforming men in every walk of life, and if India wants to be a $35 trillion economy by 2047, it cannot do so without women’s participation.

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