Unlocking India next wave of startup investment

As entrepreneurial energy plays an ever larger role in India’s success story, we present a package of weekly opinion articles by members of TiE, a global organization for startups and entrepreneurs. From the rural reach of India’s startup revolution and the easing of capital and compliance challenges to the role of angel investors, how startups and micro, small, and medium enterprises must grow together and how best to track innovation, TiE authors cover a wide spectrum of relevant issues. On 18 July, a rocket built by a private Indian company lifted off from Sriharikota and reached a 450km low-Earth orbit. Skyroot’s Vikram-1 was the first privately developed Indian rocket to get there, making India the third country in the world, after the US and China, with private orbital launch capability. What struck me beyond this incredible engineering feat was the way the country watched. Deeptech founders are being celebrated in a way they simply were not five years ago, and deeptech is transitioning from being a niche curiosity to the centre of the national interest. The trajectory underneath that shift is real. Domestic manufacturing is projected to…