‘Next Startup Fund of Funds to boost deep-tech firms’
Mint Chennai
|October 30, 2025
Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday said the government will dedicate the next edition of the Startup Fund of Funds almost entirely to deep-tech ventures, underscoring India’s ambition to shift from being the world’s back office to a global innovation engine.
Union commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal.
(PTI)
“Our startup fund of funds’ second edition, we are hoping to dedicate almost entirely to Deep Tech investments, particularly early-stage investments before the product matures,” Goyal said at an event in the national capital. “The risk capital will ensure that our friends from the tech ecosystem don’t end up selling a large part of their equity at a very early stage to venture capitalists or foreign funds.”
This story is from the October 30, 2025 edition of Mint Chennai.
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