Indian startups News
The developments in Indian startup ecosystem indicates a phase of disciplined growth as funding increases across sectors and cities.
Addressing a conference, Dr. Jitendra Singh emphasized that in the past 11 years, the Modi government has built its governance around four key pillars — the Poor, Farmers, Youth, and Women.
The Transportation and Logistics Tech sector saw a strong recovery, raising $1.6 billion, a 104 per cent increase from $799.3 million in H2 2024.
The median round size in Bengaluru was $2 million. Mumbai entrepreneurs also saw significant funding, with $102 million raised, but with a higher median round size of $5 million.
The average startup funding over the past eight weeks has remained at around $308.3 million with 26 deals per week, as per industry data.
TrueFoundry, a leading AI deployment and scaling platform, raised $19 million in Series A funding, led by Intel Capital.
According to Entrackr's report, in a growth-stage deal, building material platform Infra.Market has raised $125 million in a Series F round.
The country now has more than 1.59 lakh startups, recognised by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT).
According to the ‘Indian Startup Ecosystem Report’ by Startup India, India’s startups have leveraged emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and IoT to solve local and global problems.
FirstCry's operating income in FY24 was Rs 6,480 crore and the company suffered a loss of Rs 321.5 crore during this period.
MSME-focused digital lender NeoGrowth raised up to Rs 42 crore (nearly $5 million) in debt funding from UTI International Wealth Creator.
Dairy technology startup Stellapps Technologies raised $26 million in series C funding in a mix of equity and debt.
This week saw 12 growth-stage and 16 early-stage deals.
Bengaluru-based startups led with 11 deals followed by Delhi-NCR, Mumbai and Pune. Last week, 21 startups in India raised nearly $93 million in funding across 16 deals, which included four growth-stage deals and 12 early-stage fundings.
In the third quarter (July-September), domestic startups raised more than $4 billion, including several transactions over $300 million and $200 million, along with pre-IPO rounds.
In August, startups raised about $1.6 billion across 112 deals, which included 27 growth-stage deals worth $1.32 billion and 71 early-stage deals worth $267 million.
Indian startups raised $1.03 billion as the government abolished angel tax in the Union Budget 2024-25 which was levied on foreign investors. Indian startups raised $1.93 billion in funding in June
Compliance automation platform Sprinto secured the highest amount of funding of $20 million.
Ola Electric, led by Bhavish Agarwal, secured the highest amount of debt funding of $50 million.
Among the growth-stage deals, nine startups raised 420.35 million dollars in funding last week
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