Inside AIM SUMVAAD: How Incubators Are Becoming the Backbone of India’s Startup and Innovation Economy

India’s startup story is no longer just about unicorn valuations or headline-grabbing funding rounds. It is increasingly about the quiet but powerful institutions that shape ideas at their earliest stages-incubators, community innovation centres, mentors, policymakers and investors working together to turn raw innovation into scalable impact. That larger, more structural story came into sharp focus at AIM SUMVAAD, the flagship annual incubator conclave organised by the Atal Innovation Mission under NITI Aayog.