India as a Startup Superpower by 2035, A Strategic Roadmap launched by TiE Bangalore at Matrix Global Summit 2025
At the 10th edition of the Matrix Global Summit, TiE Bangalore launched its flagship report, India as a Startup Superpower by 2035, A Strategic Roadmap, outlining a transformative vision for India’s entrepreneurial economy. Based on inputs from over 60 ecosystem leaders, including founders, investors, policy experts, and academic institutions, the report projects that more than 50% of Indian startups by 2035 will emerge from Tier 2/3 districts.
The report presents a roadmap that is intended to evolve as a living document, continuously shaped by insights and inputs from ecosystem leaders. As the landscape changes, this framework will be updated to reflect new priorities, challenges, and opportunities—ensuring it remains relevant and action-oriented.
Building on this foundation, the report lays out a long-term blueprint to shape India into the world’s most inclusive, innovation-led startup economy. It calls for a nationwide shift from “Startup India” to “Entrepreneurial Bharat”, where entrepreneurship is no longer a metro-driven phenomenon but a grassroots movement embedded in school curriculums, regional economic clusters, and national priorities. It outlines actionable strategies to democratize access to capital, embed entrepreneurial education across academic institutions, and streamline regulatory policies to support high-impact founders across every Indian district.
This report is significant because it reframes how India must think about startups, not just as economic engines, but as tools for solving large-scale national challenges. With India expected to become the third-largest economy by 2030, this roadmap offers a framework to ensure that its startup ecosystem is not only high-growth, but resilient, inclusive, and globally relevant. The document also positions entrepreneurship as a core life skill, proposing its inclusion across 75% of secondary schools and 80% of higher education institutions by 2035, enabling over one million students each year to engage with startup culture.
“This is not just a report, it’s a strategic invitation to reimagine India’s innovation trajectory,” said Madan Padaki, President, TiE Bangalore & Trustee, TiE Global. “We now have the opportunity to architect an ecosystem that is inclusive by design and transformative by intent, where every Indian, regardless of geography or background, has the tools to build, scale, and lead.”
Covering themes across policy, capital, academia, talent, and deep tech, the report explores how India can create an innovation economy that contributes 15% to GDP, creates 50 million new jobs, and generates 100+ IPOs on global exchanges by 2035. It addresses key enablers such as domestic patient capital, national startup policy harmonization, regulatory simplification, deep tech leadership, and global integration. In doing so, it charts a path for India to lead not just in startup quantity, but in innovation quality, sustainability, and global impact. The roadmap is informed by TiE’s national roundtable series held over the past year and includes insights from academic leaders from IITs, IIMs, and other innovation-focused institutions.
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