🇮🇳 India’s Tech Journey: From Services to DeepTech Innovation
Over the last 3 decades, India has moved from being Nowhere to the world’s Back-office to the 3rd largest #startupnation and now building the foundations of sovereign #DeepTech and #AI. Each era laid the groundwork for the next:
🖥 #PC Era (1980s–1990s) → Missed the global PC revolution
🌐 #Internet Era (1990s onward) → India became the Back Office of the World, powering IT/ITeS exports.
📱 #Mobile Era (2009 onward) → Jio’s disruption put a billion Indians online with the world’s cheapest data.
🛒 #ECommerce & #App Economy (2010 onward) → Flipkart, Ola, Paytm, OYO → Unicorn boom, digital India at scale.
☁ #Enterprise SaaS (2015 onward) → From Zoho to Freshworks → India = #2 SaaS hub globally.
💳 Fintech / #IndiaStack (2016 onward) → UPI & IndiaStack → 20B+ monthly transactions, a Game-Changer with Digital Public goods!
🛠 #Web3 & #DevTools (2018 onward) → Postman, Polygon Labs → India’s developer DNA goes global. 🤖 AI & GenAI (2020 onward) → 6,000+ AI startups, 10% of global research, India as the frugal AI innovation axis.
🔬 #DeepTech & Policy Push (this decade) → #Semiconductors, #AI, #Quantum, #Biotech → India’s bet on sovereign tech.
