The ‘Destination India - Gateway to Growth – A roundtable on Indian Startup Ecosystem’ was held in Abu Dhabi on 28 March as part of the Piyush Goyal, Commerce and Industry minister’s visit to bring together United Arab Emirates (UAE) based investment houses and Indian’s unicorns and private equity, venture capital firms to showcase the India investment opportunity. 

The event saw keynote speeches by Piyush Goyal, Minister of Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs and Food and Public Distribution and Textiles, and Dr Ahmad Bin Abdullah Humaid Belhoul Al Falasi, Minister of State Entrepreneurship and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs). 
 
The roundtable is a collaborative step towards mobilising global capital for Indian startups and funds with a more sustained engagement between UAE and Indian fund managers and possible co-investing with fund managers in Indian startups.