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@article{188906,
        author = {Khaled Mohamed Ali Aldowaib AlZeyoudi and Dr. Humera Fatima},
        title = {EVALUATING THE TRANSFORMATIVE ROLE OF VENTURE CAPITAL IN DRIVING STARTUP GROWTH IN INDIA},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {5},
        pages = {4252-4261},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=188906},
        abstract = {Venture capital (VC) has become one of the most powerful mechanisms, which shaped the path of development of the Indian startup sector, allowing high-potential companies to grow quickly and reach the level of scale. Through strategic mentorship as well as networks in addition to the support of finances, VC has become a game changer in stimulating entrepreneurship in various sectors in the world. India The advent of sectoral investments in fintech, healthtech, agritech, and clean energy demonstrates how VC has acted as a catalyst in linking capital with innovation and transformed India economically. In addition to direct investment, venture capital plays a critical role in increasing ecosystem maturity, with added value coming in the form of fortification of institutional structures, fostering of accelerators, and support of partnership between start-ups, academia, and industry. It is also well known in the context of democratizing innovation, with VC opening the world to non-traditional founders, female entrepreneurs and startups based in tier-2 and tier-3 cities. Moreover, through enhancing the pace of technological integration, including artificial intelligence and blockchain, the green technologies, VC not only contributes to improving the competitiveness; as a result, Indian startups are put in a position to approach international markets more successfully. The venture capital has a bigger effect beyond a financial measure and it offers returns on aspects like creation of jobs, financial literacy, and digital literacy in the larger social-economic sense. Additionally, the VC investments are developing an entrepreneurial culture of risk-takers, resilient and internationally minded, allowing Indian startups to become unicorns and become global contenders. This paper considers such multidimensional contributions venture capital to the start-up development of India focusing on its transformational impact in advancing sectoral innovation, culture transformation, and socio-economic progress, it also places Indian start-ups on the context of the changing global ecosystem.},
        keywords = {Venture Capital, Startup Ecosystem, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Technological Advancement, Sectoral Transformation, Socio-Economic Impact, Global Expansion, Indian Startups, Entrepreneurial Culture.},
        month = {December},
        }