Indian startups need to focus on tech, not grocery delivery and ice creams: Piyush Goyal

Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday asked India's startup community to focus more on the tech sector like semiconductor, machine learning, robotics, and artificial intelligence (AI) as compared to grocery delivery and ice cream making.

Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal attends the inauguration of 2nd edition of Start-up Mahakumbh, at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi on Thursday.(Jitender Gupta/ANI)

Goyal argued that luxury consumer brands created by the children of billionaires aren't to be mistaken for real startups, while speaking at the Startup Mahakumbh 2025 in New Delhi.