Manickam: Indian Investors Struggle With High Semiconductor Tool and Salary Costs
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Raja Manickam describes why traditional Indian venture investors and family offices hesitate to back domestic semiconductor design and manufacturing ventures.
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“I personally have given a lot of talks to the financials committee And they're, you know, starting to open up their purse. They're a little bit you know, not used to this, right? Because most of the funding goes towards salaries or to tools, right? In our business, right? So they're not used to the, and the salaries are very high, right? So a lot of these funding, right? You know, they, they're not used to paying people 50 lakhs, 60 lakhs, one crore, right?”
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