Startup MahaRathi Challenge will have Rs 70 crore prize pool: Piyush Goyal

Startup Mahakumbh 2025, an event being organised by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), is hosting a series of competitions to promote innovation in in fields such as cybersecurity, AI, robotics, biotech, and more. The prize pool for the competiton, will be Rs 70 crore according to Union minister of commerce and industry Piyush Goyal on Thursday.

Goyal described the Startup MahaRathi Challenge as India’s largest private-funded challenge.

Goyal took to X to praise the initiative and said, “Rs 70 crore challenge…