{"id":1018009,"date":"2026-07-01T08:31:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T03:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018009"},"modified":"2026-07-01T08:36:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T03:06:31","slug":"startup-funding-up-9-to-7-4-billion-in-h1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/01\/startup-funding-up-9-to-7-4-billion-in-h1\/","title":{"rendered":"Startup funding up 9% to $7.4 billion in H1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian tech startups raised $7.39 billion in the first six months of 2026, up 9.4% from a year earlier, even as the number of funding rounds plunged 41%, underscoring a sharp shift in investor preference towards larger, late-stage bets over broad-based capital deployment. <\/p>\n<p>According to startup market intelligence platform Tracxn, Indian startups raised $7.39 billion across 701 funding rounds during January-June 2026, compared with $6.76 billion through 1,189 rounds in the corresponding period last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian tech startups raised $7.39 billion in the first six months of 2026, up 9.4% from a year earlier, even as the number of funding rounds plunged 41%, underscoring a sharp shift in investor preference towards larger, late-stage bets over broad-based capital deployment. According to startup market intelligence platform Tracxn, Indian startups raised $7.39 billion across 701 funding rounds during January-June 2026, compared with $6.76 billion through 1,189 rounds in the corresponding period last year.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018009","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=1018009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018022,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018009\/revisions\/1018022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}