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has risen to a higher level. The total investment in theWe hope this report can be useful to youIndia based start ups is estimated to be nearly $5and we welcome your feedback and commentsbillion by the top of 2015. Various central and stateat begin initiatives are further supportingthis progressive phase of start ups in India. This maturing start off ecosystem is contributing to theIndian economy in distinct ways. In addition toenhancing the way of living of residents, start ups arecreating innovative technology solutions that addresskey problems that India as a rustic face aroundAcknowledgementThis report has been co developed by NASSCOM andZinnov through a complete four month study tounderstand the Technology Product and Digital Start upsLandscape in India. The preparation of this report has been facilitated by anumber of companies and people who’ve extendedgreat help to the NASSCOM and Zinnov team.
We wishto in actual fact thank all of them for his or her valuablecontributions with out which this report does not havebeen feasible. First, we would like to thank all of the ecosystemmembers and other start up colleagues, who went outof their way to supply precise inputs and perspectiveof their facilities/ consumers/ markets etc. They offeredyeoman service to this task by providing the requisitedata and insights as required by the team. This study has been drastically enriched by thevaluable insights and special inputs awarded byvarious traders, angels in addition to other keystakeholders in the ecosystem. We would also liketo recognize the particular contribution made byGoogle and Microsoft for assisting us on variouspolicy related features as well as formulating andfinalizing the numbers.
Finally, we’d like to in particular acknowledge thesupport prolonged by our 10K companions Google forEntrepreneurs, Microsoft Ventures, Kotak MahindraBank, IBM and Amazon Web Services to supportNASSCOM 10,000 Start ups Program.