{"id":1000649,"date":"2026-04-02T07:39:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1000649"},"modified":"2026-04-02T07:47:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:17:43","slug":"vcs-bagged-nearly-2-billion-from-2025-ipo-exits-bain-ivca-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/02\/vcs-bagged-nearly-2-billion-from-2025-ipo-exits-bain-ivca-report\/","title":{"rendered":"VCs bagged nearly $2 billion from 2025 IPO exits: Bain-IVCA report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IPO-led startup exits gathered pace, rising 30% over 2024 levels to reach nearly $2 billion in returns this year for venture capital firms, according to a report by Bain &amp; Company&#8217;s India Capital Venture Report 2026. <\/p>\n<p>Eight IPOs with strong VC participation drove most of the liquidity. Groww led with about $670 million in exits, followed by Lenskart at $475 million and Dr. Agarwal\u2019s Healthcare at $255 million. Urban Company delivered around $170 million, and Pine Labs about $165 million. Bluestone, Meesho, and Wakefit added $85 million, $85 million, and $75 million, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IPO-led startup exits gathered pace, rising 30% over 2024 levels to reach nearly $2 billion in returns this year for venture capital firms, according to a report by Bain &amp; Company&#8217;s India Capital Venture Report 2026. Eight IPOs with strong VC participation drove most of the liquidity. Groww led with about $670 million in exits, followed by Lenskart at $475 million and Dr. Agarwal\u2019s Healthcare at $255 million. Urban Company delivered around $170 million, and Pine Labs about $165 million. Bluestone, Meesho, and Wakefit added $85 million, $85 million, and $75 million, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}