Start-ups beyond the founders: 2023 seems to be the year of changing roles

The funding winter and greater demands for accountability are encouraging promoters to step away from executive roles

Shivani Shinde | Mumbai
Last Updated at January 26, 2023 23:04 IST

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The Indian start-up ecosystem has reached a point where there was a clear distinction between creators and those who could scale up and run a company

If the year 2021 was all about funding exuberance and 2022 about the funding meltdown, then 2023 seems to be the year of founders changing roles or taking a back seat. If it is not founders, then senior executives have chosen to leave start-ups as restructuring and focus of the companies changed.

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