Question : Which state has topped in “National Startup Awards 2021” ?
a. Karnataka
b. Maharashtra
c. Gujarat
d. Tamil Nadu
Ans. a.
Related facts —
- Karnataka has bagged 14, the most by any state, of the 46 national startup awards that were announced and given away by the Ministry of Commerce & Industry on January 15, 2022.
- Ministry received 459 nominations from the state’s startups.
- There were 2,177 applications from all over the country across several sub-sectors.
- Karnataka’s performance —
- In 2021, the state has attracted Rs 1.60 lakh crore in FDI which was more than half of what flowed into the entire country.
- Of the 57,000 startups in the country, Karnataka is home to about 13,000.
- Bengaluru more than doubled its venture capital funding to 21.3 billion dollar in 2021.
- Karnataka is home to the highest number of agri-tech startups in the country and there is still a mountain of hard problems to solve for innovative entrepreneurs — the opportunity in agri-tech is huge.
By – Pankaj Pandey