India Currently Has 150,000 Startups And Projected To Reach 1 Million By 2035: Nandan Nilekani
The Raisina Dialogue 2025 kicked off on Monday. Leaders have converged under one platform to discuss the state of the world.
 New Delhi:
Addressing The Raisina Dialogue 2025 in New Delhi, Nilekani said that few countries have seen an entrepreneurial transformation at this scale. He said that India has rapidly leapfrogged in the tech sector, with formal companies surging from four million to 14 million and UPI transactions reaching 16–17 billion monthly.
Co-founder and Chairman of Infosys, Nandan Nilekani on Monday said that India currently has 150,000 startups and is projected to reach one million by 2035. "In just nine years, digital technology has scaled and become integral to daily life," he said. Nilekani was giving a featured address on the theme 'India’s Tech Journey: Innovation, Transformation, and the Road Ahead.'
This is a yearly event when leaders in politics, business, media, and civil society converge in New Delhi to discuss the state of the world and explore opportunities for cooperation on a wide range of contemporary matters. The Dialogue is structured as a multi-stakeholder, cross-sectoral discussion, involving heads of state, cabinet ministers and local government officials, who are joined by thought leaders from the private sector, media and academia.
The Raisina Dialogue, inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is India’s premier conference on geopolitics and geoeconomics committed to addressing the most challenging issues facing the global community. The event will continue till Wednesday, where elaborate discussion will take place on geo-political issues.
The conference is hosted by the Observer Research Foundation in partnership with the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India.
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