Government notifies Startup India Fund of Funds 2.0 with ₹10,000 crore corpus to mobilize capital for startups

• Startup India FoF 2.0: ₹10,000 crore government-backed fund-of-funds notified by Ministry of Commerce & Industry to mobilise venture/growth capital for Indian startups.
• Successor to FFS 1.0 (2016); corpus spread across the 16th and 17th Finance Commission cycles.
• Operates indirectly — channels money via SEBI-registered Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs), not directly to startups.
• Examinable for Prelims (institutions, numbers, mechanism) and GS-III Mains (economy, entrepreneurship, innovation).