Supply-chain shifts, policy push fuel India’s manufacturing startup boom
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- ✓India’s manufacturing startups saw funding jump from $164 million in 2020 to $1.92 billion in 2026.
- ✓Supply-chain shifts and policy changes fueled this growth.
- ✓Investors now back IP-led firms, as Vikas Choudhury said, “The beauty today, at least in what we are looking at, is that it is IP-led manufacturing.”
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New Delhi: Driven by Covid-related supply-chain disruptions and rising protectionism among major economies, India's push to strengthen domestic manufacturing appears to be paying off.
India's manufacturing startups have seen a surge in investor interest and a sharp rise in revenue as the country steps up efforts to boost domestic manufacturing, with funding jumping from $164 million in 2020 when the pandemic arrived to $1.92 billion so far in 2026, according to data platform Venture Intelligence. At the same time, startups such as Pulse, a medical equipment maker, and Scimplify, a specialty chemicals manufacturer and end-to-end supply chain platform, are seeing rising demand from the domestic market.
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