entrepreneurial spirit the event provided a platform for aspiring entrepreneurs to connect with successful mentors investors and venture capitalists who could guide them on their entrepreneurial journeyatul nishar founder hexaware azent techpro ventures with prashant pitti easemytrip and neeraj roy hungama at a tiecon panel discussionshowcasing startup excellence tiecon mumbai 2023 provided a dedicated platform for startups to showcase their innovations and garner attention from investors and potential partners the event featured a startup expo where promising ventures from various sectors showcased their products services and technologies this expo served as a launchpad for startups offering them exposure and opportunities to attract funding partnerships and customers driving social impact in addition to its focus on entrepreneurship and innovation tiecon mumbai 2023 emphasized the importance of social impact and sustainability the event showcased numerous startups and initiatives that aimed to address pressing societal challenges such as healthcare accessibility climate change and education inequality by highlighting these ventures tiecon mumbai inspired attendees to consider the social impact of their own ventures and encouraged collaborations to drive positive change bcg on indias era of resilient growth a comprehensive report era of resilient growth was also launched by bcg at the event some highlights of the report are stated below global and indian macroeconomic and funding environment while overall funding has decreased in past few years there is some level of recency bias as funding levels still comparable to 201920 importantly funding still at brisk levels in seedearly stages this coupled with record levels of dry powder imply money available for new startups specifically india comparatively doing well with higher share of apac investments importantly very clear trend towards investors favouring either profitable companies or with clearer path to profitability on india opportunity with an expected 7 tn economy by 2030 multiple sectors will open up for startups with very sizeable tam identified 20 segments across b2b and b2c where large opportunities exist for new crop of startups to emerge how to think about building resilient startups in the current environment 4 ways to think about resilient companies right strategy to win right markets and agility high degree of customer obsession ma as a strategic tool rhythmic engine focus on efficiencies margins and supply chain agile organization and intentional culture managing and raising capital as also stakeholder management some key macro trends important for indian startups gen ai significant potential for transformative changes across large parts of value chains of many sectors many consumer segments like gaming video edtech etc will fundamentally change beyond what we are seeing today also many opportunities will open up on b2b side where there will be competition between incumbents and potentially newer players climate and sustainability india has taken a net zero target by 2070 more than 190 bn of vc funding across the globe with more than 85 unicorns while multiple challenges indian ecosystem has been developing india now the 3rd largest ecosystem of climate tech orgs major focus across