India’s most comprehensive programme for start-ups T he Indian startup ecosystem has seen over 20,000 new companies being incorporated in July 2020 alone and the trend has continued in the months of August and September as well. The cumulative number of startups incorporated in India since 2010 is more than 800,000. The numbers suggest that the startup segment is clearly poised for exponential growth. Yet for a market segment this big, technology advancements in Banking hadn’t benefitted this segment yet. Sensing an opportunity here, ICICI Bank, one of India’s leading Banks, introduced ‘iStartup2.0’ — a 360-degree holistic and most comprehensive programme for startups with a combination of banking and beyond banking services across their life stages in a single place. This programme for startups takes care of their banking as well as beyond-banking needs such as regulatory assistance, analytics, staffing, accounting, customer acquisition and digital outreach to customers, networking