{"id":1038516,"date":"2026-09-25T08:26:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T02:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1038516"},"modified":"2026-09-25T08:39:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T03:09:54","slug":"india-tech-funding-rises-7-to-10-3-billion-as-investors-favour-larger-bets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/25\/india-tech-funding-rises-7-to-10-3-billion-as-investors-favour-larger-bets\/","title":{"rendered":"India tech funding rises 7% to $10.3 billion as investors favour larger bets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s technology startups raised $10.3 billion in the first nine months of 2026, up 7% from a year earlier, even as funding rounds fell 38%. The divergence points to a more concentrated market, with investors committing larger cheques to fewer companies while the pipeline of new and early-stage startups contracts. <\/p>\n<p>According to Tracxn Technologies\u2019 India Tech 9M 2026 report, 1,134 funding rounds were recorded through 21 September, down from 1,838 in the year-earlier period. First-time funded companies fell 30% to 338, while Series A and later rounds declined 23% to 409.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s technology startups raised $10.3 billion in the first nine months of 2026, up 7% from a year earlier, even as funding rounds fell 38%. The divergence points to a more concentrated market, with investors committing larger cheques to fewer companies while the pipeline of new and early-stage startups contracts. According to Tracxn Technologies\u2019 India Tech 9M 2026 report, 1,134 funding rounds were recorded through 21 September, down from 1,838 in the year-earlier period. First-time funded companies fell 30% to 338, while Series A and later rounds declined 23% to 409.<\/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-1038516","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\/1038516","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=1038516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038538,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038516\/revisions\/1038538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}