{"id":1005782,"date":"2026-04-29T10:59:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005782"},"modified":"2026-04-29T13:13:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T07:43:32","slug":"indian-fintech-funding-holds-steady-at-513-mn-in-q1-2026-deal-volume-halves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/29\/indian-fintech-funding-holds-steady-at-513-mn-in-q1-2026-deal-volume-halves\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian fintech funding holds steady at $513 mn in Q1 2026; deal volume halves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Funding in India\u2019s financial technology (fintech) sector remained largely flat at USD 513 million in the first quarter of 2026, but the number of deals plummeted by 54 per cent year-on-year, signalling a structural shift towards fewer, larger investments, market intelligence firm Tracxn said on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>According to the \u2018Geo Quarterly Report \u2014 India FinTech Q1 2026\u2019 by Tracxn, the sector witnessed just 45 funding rounds in the January-March period, a sharp decline from 99 rounds in the corresponding quarter of 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funding in India\u2019s financial technology (fintech) sector remained largely flat at USD 513 million in the first quarter of 2026, but the number of deals plummeted by 54 per cent year-on-year, signalling a structural shift towards fewer, larger investments, market intelligence firm Tracxn said on Tuesday. According to the \u2018Geo Quarterly Report \u2014 India FinTech Q1 2026\u2019 by Tracxn, the sector witnessed just 45 funding rounds in the January-March period, a sharp decline from 99 rounds in the corresponding quarter of 2025.<\/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":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005782","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=1005782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005790,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005782\/revisions\/1005790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}