Attention, start-ups! Y Combinator president Sam Altman may visit India this year

Global start-up accelerator Y Combinator has been rewarding promising start-ups in India for two years in a row but this year, the organisation may be deepening its ties with the country even more.

Y Combinator's president Sam Altman is rumoured to visit India this year. According to sources in the know, the original plan was that Altman, considered one of the most influential voices in Silicon Valley, was to visit the country last December. However, the trip has now been postponed to later this year. The start-up accelerator hasn't made an official announcement of Altman's visit.

Y Combinator has invested in two start-ups in India so far, Razorpay in 2015 and ClearTax in 2014. In an interview last year, Altman showed interest in the Indian start-up ecosystem. "India is one of the largest and fastest growing markets globally and that's why we have been investing in Indian start-ups (Cleartax and Razorpay) over the last couple of years. I think there will be multiple $10 billion-plus companies which will be started in India in the next few years and, hopefully, we will get a shot at funding some of those," he said. That should be reason enough for budding start-ups to begin sharpening their pitch.