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VCs keep purse strings tight despite raising more capital
Domestic and global investors, who have raised record funds over the past year, have mostly held on to their unallocated capital in the first six months of 2023 when startups witnessed a substantial drop in funding.Prominent investors…
Why Foreign VCs Have Shut Their Taps
Foreign investment in India's start-ups has plummeted 72 per cent to $4.58 billion so far, from $16.2 billion during the same period last year.
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EV, AI, semicon favourites for VCs amid sluggish startup funding
Venture capital funds like Sequoia Capital India, Lightspeed India, Matrix Partners India, Athera Venture Partners and Accel Partners are increasingly deploying early-stage capital in emerging sectors such as electric mobility, artificial…
Invested $2 billion in Neu, revamp’s paid off: Tata Digital CEO; VCs chase deep tech, climate tech,…
Tata Sons breathed new life into its super app Tata Neu just before the latest Indian Premier League (IPL), a bet that paid off for the company, Tata Digital CEO Pratik Pal told us in chat. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning…
India’s emerging as next chip-making destination: Ashwini Vaishnaw; VCs reach out to CBDT on angel…
Happy Friday! Union IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told ET in an interview that some major players expect India to be the next chip-making destination, globally. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.Also in this letter:■…
For VCs, renewed angel tax kills devil in details
Venture capital (VC) investors welcomed the changes proposed by the government to angel tax provisions that were originally announced in the Union budget for 2023-24, saying they provide much-needed clarity on incidence of the tax while…
Karnataka polls: Startup founders, VCs vote in Bengaluru for better infra and R&D
Bengaluru city lived up to its reputation as India’s startup capital as founders from major companies cast their vote in the state’s assembly polls on Wednesday.Hari Menon, founder and chief executive of egrocer BigBasket, told ET he went…
The Art of A Good Unicorn | Startups, is Big Tech now coming after your mind?
Every now and then, Silicon Valley stands behind something that leads to the worrisome B-word: “bubble”. But, in effect, that’s what happens when there’s a herd mentality and a hype cycle & there’s a large number of VCs, who start…
Deep-tech VCs up India focus as generative AI reshapes tech
Venture capital firms focused on the deep tech sector are reinforcing their presence in India at a time when artificial intelligence (AI) is creating ripples across the tech world on the back of the launch of Open AI’s ChatGPT.With Google…