India may soon pull up startups that received back-door investments from China

India may soon pull up startups that received back-door investments from China

Visual from MBT site via Reuters

The Indian government has started sending notices to startups that have raised funding from Chinese investors in the last two years, despite New Delhi’s restrictions on investments from neighbouring countries.

According to people in the know, the Indian government has stepped up its scrutiny of the inflow of Chinese capital into India after it tweaked FDI norms in April 2020 in an attempt to prevent opportunistic takeovers of domestic companies by neighbouring countries.

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