{"id":1001901,"date":"2026-04-09T08:17:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001901"},"modified":"2026-04-09T09:47:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T04:17:33","slug":"india-venture-debt-deployment-grows-marginally-in-2025-to-1-3-billion-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/09\/india-venture-debt-deployment-grows-marginally-in-2025-to-1-3-billion-report\/","title":{"rendered":"India venture debt deployment grows marginally in 2025 to $1.3 billion: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Venture debt deployment in India inched up to $1.3 billion in 2025 from $1.2 billion in 2024 even as deal activity slowed during the year, according to a report by Stride Ventures. <\/p>\n<p>The number of transactions declined to 187 in 2025 from 238 a year earlier, pointing to a moderation in startup funding. Venture capital investments remained largely flat during the year, as a drop in large-ticket deals and a shifting investment thesis towards early-stage artificial intelligence (AI) startups weighed on aggregate funding levels, ET had reported in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venture debt deployment in India inched up to $1.3 billion in 2025 from $1.2 billion in 2024 even as deal activity slowed during the year, according to a report by Stride Ventures. The number of transactions declined to 187 in 2025 from 238 a year earlier, pointing to a moderation in startup funding. Venture capital investments remained largely flat during the year, as a drop in large-ticket deals and a shifting investment thesis towards early-stage artificial intelligence (AI) startups weighed on aggregate funding levels, ET had reported in December.<\/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-1001901","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\/1001901","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=1001901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}