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Financial Assistance to Startups

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..... Financial Assistance to Startups
News and Press Release
Dated:- 21-6-2019

Direct funding support to startups is not envisaged under Startup India Programme. Government of India has established Fund of Funds for Startups (FFS), to meet the funding needs of startups. Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Government of India, is the monitoring agency and Small .....

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..... Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) is the operating agency for FFS. As per the operating guidelines issued by DPIIT, FFS contributes to the corpus of SEBI registered Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs). These AIFs in turn have to invest at least twice the contribution under FFS in startups, as defined by the Government of India. Each AIF sets up its own Investment Committee and the inv .....

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..... estment Committee of each Fund takes a decision on its investment decisions. The AIFs supported under FFS have supported 249 startups as on June 13, 2019. The investment committee (IC) of each AIF, comprising of investment experts drawn from different domains takes decisions on investing into particular startup. These decisions are largely a matter of business decisions which depend on a host of .....

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..... factors like uniqueness, innovativeness, intellectual property and business potential. A formal mechanism has been put in place in the form of Monitoring Committee to review progress of Startup India programme on regular basis. The Monitoring Committee comprises representative from DPIIT, NITI Aayog, Department of Revenue (Ministry of Finance), Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Dep .....

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..... artment of Science and Technology (Ministry of Science and Technology), Department of Bio-Technology (Ministry of Science and Technology), Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Department of Higher Education (Ministry of Human Resources Development) and Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI). The Monitoring Committee continuously reviews progress & implementation of vario .....

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..... us measures for growth of startup ecosystem. Year wise figures for number of Startups provided financial assistance are given below: Number of Startups provided financial assistance under Fund of Funds (Year-wise): Financial Year No. of Startups given financial assistance under FFS FY - 2016-17 62 FY - 2017-18 58 FY - 2018-19 98 FY - 2019-20 (As on June 13, 2019) 31 This information w .....

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..... as given by the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Piyush Goyal, in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.
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