{"id":1009948,"date":"2026-05-26T08:35:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T03:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1009948"},"modified":"2026-05-26T08:43:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T03:13:33","slug":"venture-investments-halve-in-apr-to-2-7-bn-as-rupee-depreciation-weighs-on-sentiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/26\/venture-investments-halve-in-apr-to-2-7-bn-as-rupee-depreciation-weighs-on-sentiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Venture investments halve in Apr to $2.7 bn as rupee depreciation weighs on sentiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Venture capital and private equity funds invested USD 2.7 billion across 38 deals in April as the rupee depreciation amid the geopolitical tensions weighed on investor sentiment, a report said on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>The bets were around 50% lower than the values seen in the year-ago period and also the preceding month of March 2026, according to the report by lobby grouping IVCA and consultancy firm EY. <\/p>\n<p>From a number of deals perspective, April 2026 saw 83 transactions, which is a 29-month low, and much lower than 134 in the year-ago period and 131 in March this year, the report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venture capital and private equity funds invested USD 2.7 billion across 38 deals in April as the rupee depreciation amid the geopolitical tensions weighed on investor sentiment, a report said on Monday. The bets were around 50% lower than the values seen in the year-ago period and also the preceding month of March 2026, according to the report by lobby grouping IVCA and consultancy firm EY. From a number of deals perspective, April 2026 saw 83 transactions, which is a 29-month low, and much lower than 134 in the year-ago period and 131 in March this year, the report said.<\/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-1009948","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\/1009948","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=1009948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009966,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009948\/revisions\/1009966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}