India, April 4 -- Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday asked India's startup community to focus more on the tech sector like semiconductor, machine learning, robotics, and artificial intelligence (AI) as compared to grocery delivery and ice cream making.

Goyal argued that luxury consumer brands created by the children of billionaires aren't to be mistaken for real startups, while speaking at the Startup Mahakumbh 2025 in New Delhi.

"I have been going through a lot of our startup success stories," Goyal said. "Wherever I go, all over the country, I know at least three or four billionaires whose children make at least one brand of fancy cookies and ice creams."

Goyal said that "I have no complaints against that b...