<h1>Government support for startups: collaborative policy dialogue to strengthen AI governance, fintech growth, and regulatory engagement.</h1> Government support and structured engagement are central to advancing India's startup ecosystem, with emphasis on startups improving articulation of policy concerns. Key operational priorities include the development of responsible AI infrastructure and governance-covering dataset access, compute capacity, skills, and safety frameworks-and targeted regulatory engagement to position fintech as a strategic national opportunity. The Startup Policy Forum serves as a convenor and advocacy platform to consolidate founder recommendations and facilitate dialogue with nodal agencies and ministries to inform practical policy instruments and ease-of-doing-business reforms.