SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
SDG 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
Institutions: Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
The NASSCOM GenAI Startup Landscape Report 2025 highlights Indiaโs rapid rise as a global hub for generative AI innovation, with startups growing 3.7X to 890+ in the past year and patents rising 1.7X. Despite strong early-stage momentum and increasing adoption in sectors like BFSI, healthcare, and legal, the ecosystem faces critical funding, compute, and talent gaps. Late-stage capital remains scarce, compute costs are prohibitively high, and production-ready AI talent is limited. Startups are increasingly focusing on verticalized AI models and agentic AI, reshaping enterprise workflows.
The report stresses the need for a national GenAI strategy, including strategic investments, a National AI Compute Grid, tax incentives, regulatory sandboxes, and โgovernment as first customerโ policies.
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