{"id":1006457,"date":"2026-05-02T09:05:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T03:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1006457"},"modified":"2026-05-02T09:34:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T04:04:06","slug":"ettech-deals-digest-startups-raised-660-million-in-april-up-3-2-on-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/02\/ettech-deals-digest-startups-raised-660-million-in-april-up-3-2-on-year\/","title":{"rendered":"ETtech Deals Digest: Startups raised $660 million in April, up 3.2% on-year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian startups have raised about $660 million in April 2026, marking a 3.2% increase from the same time last year, when they raised $639 million across 181 rounds. <\/p>\n<p>The funding was primarily in late-stage deals, which accounted for $346.7 million. Early-stage funding followed at $240.6 million, while seed-stage startups raised $72.3 million. No funding was recorded in the unattributed or post-IPO categories during the period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian startups have raised about $660 million in April 2026, marking a 3.2% increase from the same time last year, when they raised $639 million across 181 rounds. The funding was primarily in late-stage deals, which accounted for $346.7 million. Early-stage funding followed at $240.6 million, while seed-stage startups raised $72.3 million. No funding was recorded in the unattributed or post-IPO categories during the period.<\/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-1006457","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\/1006457","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=1006457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006479,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006457\/revisions\/1006479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}