The Lift-Off Nation: Why We Are Entering the Golden Age of Indian Startups - Hardcover

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Once upon a time, India accounted for 25 per cent of global GDP. Two startup veterans - Saurabh Srivastava, one of India's leading entrepreneurs, investors and institution-builders who co-founded NASSCOM, TIE and IAN, and Rajan Anandan, ex-head of Google, Microsoft and Dell in India and now a Managing Director at Peak XV Partners - argue that it can do so again by harnessing India's startups. With a fascinating array of case studies and data points, they give five reasons why the time for India's startup ecosystem is now. The first is India now has a new generation of founders schooled in the first-generation of 'academy' startups in India. Others are starting up after experiencing world-class innovation at scale at some of the world's largest companies. India also is witnessing an explosion in innovation across all sectors of its economy - from consumer-focused companies to startups in core sectors like financial services and AI. These founders are innovating for the world, with around 40 per cent of new seed funded startups in 2025 building from day zero. Alongside, funding has increased dramatically with venture capital funding having grown five times over the past decade and India's public markets being open for business to startup IPOs. Finally, India has a very supportive government that has made many regulatory reforms and created digital public infrastructure such as Aadhaar and UPI, which is the envy of the world. The result speaks for itself. Today, India is the third-largest and fastest-growing startup ecosystem by number of startups. The combined valuation of Indian startups has raced to over $400 billion within a decade. And this is just the start. With interviews with many leading founders, investors and policymakers in the Indian startup ecosystem, this is an authoritative, sharply argued and deeply insightful book that gives a comprehensive picture of the current state and future potential of the fastest-growing startup ecosystem on the planet.

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