Startup20

Startups have become the engine for innovation-fueled economic recovery, reorientation, and growth for nations around the world. Startup20 is the first of its kind official engagement group initiated under the Indian presidency of the G20 2023. The engagement group would act as the voice of the global startup ecosystem bringing together varied stakeholders on a common platform.

Startups need a thriving and favorable environment to scale rapidly; policies, frameworks and regulations at the national and international platforms need to keep pace with innovation. The Startup20 Engagement Group would create a global narrative for supporting startups and enabling synergies between startups, corporates, investors, innovation agencies and other key ecosystem stakeholders.

Startup20 is an official engagement group, established under the G20 India Presidency 2023. It acts as a dialogue forum with the global startup ecosystem stakeholders and intends to represent the global startup ecosystem to raise the macroeconomic concerns and challenges faced by entrepreneurs with G20 leaders. This would function as any other G20 engagement group, supported by G20 India Sherpa initially along with the Startup20 secretariat.

Startup20 will work towards bringing forward key topics for discussion and formulating recommendations against each priority area. Through a consensus-based approach, we will corroborate the final recommendations to the G20 Presidency for discussion at the G20 Summit.

We will seek to advance important subjects for discussion and develop recommendations for each priority area using a consensus-based methodology. This will be followed by confirming the final recommendations before submitting them to the G20 Presidency for discussion at the G20 Summit.

Startup20 India

Startup20 India will operate through Task Forces which are structured to develop key priorities and bring forward the topics in which recommendations would be formulated to support the startup ecosystems globally. Such recommendations would be conveyed through a communique to the G20 India presidency and taken up during the G20 Summit 2023.