Details of the ‘Startup India’ initiative, as envisaged in the policy document Startup India Action Plan, are at Annexure I. With respect to investment in Startups, the Startup India Action Plan provides for a Fund of Funds for Startups (FFS) with a corpus fund of INR 10,000 crores for development and growth of innovation driven enterprises.

As on 28th February, 2017, ₹ 500 crores had been released to SIDBI for the FFS. Out of this, ₹ 114 crores was sanctioned to 5 Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs), who in turn have invested ₹ 27.81 crores in 9 Startups.

This information was given by the Commerce and Industry Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman in a written reply in Rajya Sabha today

Fund of Funds for Startups mobilises investment support; initial allocations channelled through AIFs to early-stage startups. A government policy establishes a Fund of Funds for Startups to provide capital via Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) which then invest in eligible startups. The mechanism operates through a central corpus managed by a nodal agency, allocations to qualifying AIF intermediaries, and downstream deployment into startup portfolios; the document reports initial disbursements to the implementing agency, sanctions to selected AIFs, and those AIFs' investments into startups.