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come from India

Thiyagarajan M, iSPIRT Fellow

1 in 20 $billion startups is from India

Today

1 in 2 $billion startups will be from India

By 2025

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Undercurrent #1

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Shift - Software Services to Product

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Tailor who can make shirts Ready-made shirts makers

S E R V I C E I N D U S T R Y P R O D U C T I N D U S T R Y

Startups are leading this change

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Electronics Defense

Software

Communications

Software Product Industry is

the enabling industry for

many sectors

Made for & from India

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Indian Saas is filling white spaces

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$0.6 trillion opportunity

Undercurrent #2

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Consumerization of the Enterprise

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shaping

With smartphone everywhere

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Personal technology more powerful and richer experience than Enterprise

technology

Undercurrent #3

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Changed attitudes with massification of entrepreneurship

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Resulting in the incredulous activities and infectious energy we are seeing

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India has emerged as the 4th largest start-up location globally

800 new startups created year on year

70+ Active VC’s and PE’s in 2014

550+ Angels in India

80+ Accelerators and Incubators 18

VC investments increased 7 times

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VC Investments in software products ( in $m)

Global Tech giants that acquired Indian startups last year

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