Only 1 in 400 Indian startups becomes a unicorn
(That’s just 0.25%)
Hype is loud — but the odds are brutal.
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India is building 1 unicorn every 9 days.
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• They don’t do PR.
• They don’t chase hype.
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Is Indian startup ecosystem revolving only around Zepto, Instamart, Blinkit etc and other kinds of similar startups?
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National Startup Day was started by PM Narendra Modi on 16 January 2016. Till 2015, there were 450 startups in the country, whose number has increased to 1.57 lakh today. Currently there are 118 unicorn startups in the country.
Startups have provide
As per a survey by Private Circle Research,
60% of the Indian founders built a unicorn in their very 1st attempt !!!
29% of the founders did this in two attempts.
Also, after their first unicorn, the same founder takes a median of 1.5 years to tu
What’s the REAL future of Indian startups?
Will India produce the next Google or just more delivery apps?
We have:
1.4B+ people
World-class engineers
A youth obsessed with startups
Yet 90% of Indian startups still copy US models or burn investor