Indian startups raise over $995 million VC funding in August

Aurojyoti Bose, Lead Analyst at GlobalData, said: “Although the total VC funding amount still remains below USD 1 billion akin to July, August managed to reverse the decline in fundraising, despite a 2.3 per cent fall in deal volume.”

The growth has come at a time when fundraising in other key global markets such as the US and UK witnessed decline. “China and India were the two notable exceptions to this trend,” Bose said.

An analysis of GlobalData’s Financial Deals Database revealed that India saw the announcement of 1,239 VC funding deals during January to August 2022, while the disclosed funding value in the year-ago period stood at USD 17.7 billion.

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Bose said despite the economic volatility, Indian startups fractionally managed to gain investors’ confidence. “As the cyclical phenomenon of the funding winter suggests, India witnessed a slight month-on-month improvement in VC fundraising in August.”