Tech start-up scene likely to look up

Our Bureau Updated - January 24, 2018 at 07:42 PM.

The technology start-up scenario is in for a big change following the Union Budget’s encouraging proposals.

Start-up entrepreneurs are upbeat that the Finance Minister has taken measures that will give a boost to young technology talents and the enterprising youth in the country.

“The Budget is very promising and very positive for the start-up sector,” Pranav Kumar Suresh, CEO of Kochi Startup Village, the first tech start-up in the country on the PPP mode, told BusinessLine .

Suresh pointed out that there were three major proposals that would be very positively impact the fast developing start-up scene in the country — funds allocation for encouraging start-ups; the possibility of foreign funds coming into the sector and the promise of improving the ease of doing business and ease of closing business.

Published on February 28, 2015 18:03