Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal said giving fancy packaging to ice-creams and cookies doesn't make it a start-up. "It is entrepreneurship and a business model," he said at Startup Mahakumbh 2025. "Only 1,000 startups in India's deep-tech space is a disturbing situation," he said, adding that start-ups in other nations are focused on AI and 3D printing.