{"id":80501,"date":"2025-09-23T07:47:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T07:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/80501\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T07:47:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T07:47:15","slug":"fewer-iit-iim-graduates-launch-startups-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/80501\/","title":{"rendered":"Fewer IIT, IIM graduates launch startups this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Entrepreneurial activity in the country has seen asharp decline this year, especially among recent graduates from the <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#Careers#href\" href=\"https:\/\/m.economictimes.com\/topic\/indian-institutes-of-technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indian Institutes of Technology<\/a> (IITs) and Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), a slowdown that experts attribute to investors turning more cautious amid heightened macroeconomic and geopolitical uncertainties.<\/p>\n<p>According to data collated for ET by Tracxn, a market intelligence platform, only 36 startups have been founded by graduates of these premium institutions in 2025 to date, compared to 236 in 2024 and 383 in 2023. <\/p>\n<p>However, the numbers need to be interpreted carefully, experts said. \u201cA temporary dip in entrepreneurial activity among graduates from premier institutions such as the IIMs and IITs should not be misinterpreted as a waning of aspiration in Indian youth,\u201d Himanshu Rai, director, IIM Indore told ET.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Screenshot 2025-09-20 004515\" alt=\"Screenshot 2025-09-20 004515\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/et-logo.jpg\" class=\"lazy gwt-Image\" data-msid=\"124005478\" data-original=\"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-124005478\/screenshot-2025-09-20-004515.jpg\"\/><br \/>According to him, the decline is symptomatic of broader macroeconomic headwinds.<br \/>Softer job marketThe headwinds include global uncertainties, a more cautious funding environment, inflationary pressures and elevated interest rates, says Rai. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ET logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756640479_840_118783427.cms.png\" width=\"90%\"\/>Live Events<br \/>Neha Singh, chairperson and managing director at Tracxn, attributed the slowdown in startup activity to a tightening funding environment. \u201cThis is due to the global economic uncertainty and rising interest rates have led investors to adopt a more cautious approach,\u201d she said. Startups founded by women graduates from IIMs and IITs have seen a drastic decline to three since the beginning of this year from 34 and 61 in 2024 and 2023, respectively, according to <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#Careers#href\" href=\"https:\/\/m.economictimes.com\/topic\/tracxn-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tracxn data<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>This is in line with the overall fall in the number of startups founded by women in the country to 26 so far in 2025 from 328 in 2024 and 582 in 2023. <\/p>\n<p>Add <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ET Logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/123467569.cms.png\"\/> as a Reliable and Trusted News Source\u201cThis phase should be viewed as a market correction rather than a decline in entrepreneurial spirit,\u201d said Singh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Entrepreneurial activity in the country has seen asharp decline this year, especially among recent graduates from the Indian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[79,18,54019,236,19,54021,54020,54027,22599,17,54024,54025,54022,54026,54023],"class_list":{"0":"post-80501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entrepreneurial-activity-decline","11":"tag-entrepreneurship","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-iims-startups","14":"tag-iits-startups","15":"tag-indian-institutes-of-technology","16":"tag-indian-startup-ecosystem","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-macroeconomic-uncertainties","19":"tag-recent-graduates-startups","20":"tag-startup-funding-environment","21":"tag-tracxn-data","22":"tag-women-entrepreneurs-in-india"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}