Over 3,000 deeptech startups in India raised $2.7 billion in 2021: Report

India is witnessing a boom in deeptech startups in niche areas like cybersecurity, quantum computing, AI and semiconductor, and the country is now home to more than 3,000 such startups that raised $2.7 billion in 2021 — a 1.6 times growth over 2020 — a new Nasscom report said on Monday.
The country added over 210 deeptech startups in 2021 alone, and Bengaluru and Delhi-NCR are leading them in the country, according to a Nasscom-Zinnov report.
“The Indian deeptech ecosystem has also fortified the job creation with over 4,000 people being employed across 14 potential deeptech unicorns and is expected to increase by 2X in headcount by 2026,” said Debjani Ghosh, President, Nasscom.
The country is now home to 500 inventive deeptech startups, creating workforce across technologies such as drones, robotics, 3D printing and AI — with the potential to develop new intellectual properties backed by scientific advances and fundamental research.