India, Aug. 18 -- While billion-dollar valuations of startups often grab headlines, the remunerations of founders who lead the ship mostly go unnoticed. Amid the funding winter and the focus on bottom lines over the last two years, Inc42 launched the founders' salary tracker for FY23 and FY24 to see how the salaries of founders of startups and new-age tech companies were changing.

Continuing with this, we are launching the 'FY25 Founder Salaries Tracker' to keep a hawk eye on the payouts of founders and the financial health of the new-age tech ecosystem. Amid the ongoing new-age tech IPO boom and the continuing profitability push, it is more critical than ever to understand the incentives that drive the key decision-makers.

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