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Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) has failed to meet the target of funding 300 start-ups under a central scheme, its Director General Arvind Kumar said while calling for a review of the performance of the agency which has been set up to promote IT and ITES companies. During the STPI's Sangam event, Kumar said that the organisation has been able to provide seed funds to 136 start-ups in the last three years under the Next Generation Incubation Scheme (NGIS) which calls for analysing the shortcomings in the implementation of the scheme. He said that the event Sangam marks the celebration of a technology startup's success. "But for me, it is more of a report card. The scheme was started five years back, but for two years actually, nothing happened except finding some fund manager. In these two and a half years, we were able to support around 685 startups and to 136, we were able to give seed funds. If I have to write my performance report, I think we are not able to do what we
Revenue of IT and IT-enabled services in the country has crossed USD 250 billion out of which USD 200 billion is from exports, a senior government official said on Wednesday. While speaking at the inaugural session of Indiasoft 2025 and India Electronics Expo, Software Technology Parks of India (STPI), Director General, Arvind Kumar, said that the country's IT-ITes revenue has come a long way from USD 20 million in 1992-93. "This consistent effort of ESC, Government of India and support of ESC types of the organization means that today, from IT-ITes services, we have revenue of more than USD 250 billion. STPI's journey started when we had only USD 20 million in export from this country. It's a journey of USD 20 million to 250 million US dollars out of this USD 200 billion is from export," Kumar said. He said that the Electronics and Computer Software Export Promotion Council has always been very instrumental over the promotion of export from this country. Kumar said that now the ..
IT services exports from STPI-registered units have crossed Rs 9 lakh crore in the 2024 financial year, a senior official said on Wednesday. While speaking at the 33rd Foundation Day of Software Technology Parks of India, Director General Arvind Gupta announced an initiative towards developing India's sovereign cloud journey under the brand name 'Ananta', which will be a hyperscale cloud made by Indians for Indians. Apart from the conventional Compute Infrastructure Services (IAAS), Ananta will also offer PAAS, SAAS and GPU-based services. "STPI has played a very crucial and important role for nurturing the IT industry so that it could have reached this stage. The exports from STPI registered units have also reached Rs 9.19 lakh crore," Gupta said. The STPI registered units in the first year of its establishment in 1991 reported exports of Rs 17 crore. STPI at the event signed a memorandum of understanding with Sabudh Foundation for creating skill-development initiatives and nurtu
State-owned STPI has started inviting applications from startups under its Leap programme to fund entrepreneurs in collaboration with venture capitalists and other private investors, a senior official of the organisation said on Monday. Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) will select 75 startups under the programme this year and facilitate funding of up to Rs 1 crore in each startup in collaboration with venture capital firms and angel investors. "We have already invested Rs 25 lakh through NGIS. We have already made investment in about 100 startups from the total fund that we have. Through Leap we are looking to nurture the next 100 startups," STPI Director General Arvind Kumar said. He said that the Leap (Launchpad for Tech Entrepreneurs towards Accelerated growth and Pioneering Ahead) will be organised at places closer to startups in cities like Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Vijayawada with an idea that they should not be required to leave their city for growing their ...
State-run Software Technology Parks of India has set-up an incubation facility at its Gurugram campus with a target to incubate 100 startups in five years, an official statement said on Friday. The incubation facility of Apiary Center of Entrepreneurship (CoE) at STPI-Gurugram was set up in collaboration with MeitY, STPI, Haryana government, Padup Ventures, IBM, Intel, GBA and FITT. "Apiary is one of the CoEs of STPI which is focused on Blockchain Technology. It targets to incubate an overall 100 startups in a period of five years," the statement said. The incubation facility was inaugurated by Electronics and Information Technology Secretary S Krishnan. "Meeting the young entrepreneurs was quite an enriching experience. The way these entrepreneurs have addressed real-world problems using cutting-edge technology is really commendable. "In the last three decades, the way we have used technology is the key benchmark for our country's exponential growth," Krishnan said. The CoE has