Home to over 1,700 startups, Odisha has set its sights on fostering more than 5K startups by 2025. To achieve this ambitious goal, Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik inaugurated two significant initiatives on September 11, 2023 — the Odisha Startup Yatra 2023 (The latest edition of Odisha Startup Yatra) and Startup Express 2023.

These initiatives are dedicated to nurturing the entrepreneurial spirit and innovative thinking among young minds at the grassroots level, thereby preparing them to leverage the abundant opportunities within the state’s startup space.