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Startup India - DPIIT's Ecosystem Push
Startup India is the DPIIT programme that recognised startups draw their support from, and its two recent moves point the same way: five industry agreements signed on 8 August 2026 for cloud, payment, mentoring and investment-readiness help, and a September 2026 push to carry the ecosystem past the metros, where by the science ministry's own count most of India's startups already sit.
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Added the September 2026 push to take the ecosystem past the metros. At the 6th RISE Conclave in Kolkata the science minister said more than 50 to 60 percent of India's startups are not metro firms, asked scientific institutions to travel to Tier-2 and Tier-3 innovators, and set out a lab-to-market model that seats the commercial partner beside the laboratory from day one. The conclave counted about 150 startups, eight MoUs and four technology transfers.
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