Overview
- The Delhi government held a closed-door roundtable with founders and investors on Sunday, September 6, to gather implementation advice for the Delhi Start‑Up and Incubation Policy, 2026.
- The policy aims to back more than 10,000 startups and create about 400,000 jobs with a headline commitment of roughly Rs 400–407.5 crore over five years.
- Delhi shifted the programme into the education portfolio and based implementation on campus incubators in universities, colleges, polytechnics, ITIs and schools rather than on a state-run venture fund.
- Industry participants recommended structuring the corpus as a Fund of Funds to attract private capital, easing land and workspace rules, creating a permanent regulatory helpdesk, and providing public AI infrastructure and data sandboxes plus government procurement for startups.
- Key implementation details remain unpublished or unclear, including the full policy text, how the Rs ~400 crore will be split between institutions and startups, per‑milestone support amounts, and any explicit access to state datasets or compute, and the government says it will consider the roundtable inputs before finalising those specifics.